The highest averages method or divisor method is the name for a variety of ways to allocate seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It requires the number of votes for each party to be divided successively by a series of divisors. This produces a table of quotients, or "averages", with a row for each divisor and a column for each party. The th seat is allocated to the party whose column contains the th largest entry in this table, up to the total number of seats available.