Rarely does the vote divide so neatly; one party might win 42 percent of 11 seats. Would if get 4.62 seats? How do you send a fraction of a person to parliament? The most common way to handle this is the d’ Hand mathematical formula, which slightly over represents the larger parties at the expense of smaller ones. Sweden “tops off” numerical discrepancies by using nationwide seats. Sweden’ s 28 districts to rectify variances from the parties’ national percentages.