Examples of "optimal" rate allocation are max-min fair allocation and Kelly's suggestion of proportional fair allocation, although many others are possible.

Delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses may not exactly reflect the votes cast, but Democratic party rules require proportional allocation rather than winner-take-all.

Many states switched from their old winner-take-all allocation to proportional allocation.

View official results from Colorado's 2004 initiative on proportional allocation of its electoral votes.

This is called proportional allocation.

These places would be shared equally between the universities and the public sector colleges so that each would eventually have 375,000 students, a marked change from the Robbins proportional allocations.

Parties had to announce 48 candidates for constituency seats and 28 candidates for proportional allocation.

In relation to the proportional allocation of seats in Parliament, this principle should be extended to all areas of EU employment policy.

For the Republicans, just 12 delegates were at stake; Mr. Bush collected 7 and Mr. McCain 12 in a proportional allocation of the votes.

In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was selected from the proportional allocation of the Nepali Congress.