Quota

A quota is a prescribed number or share of something.

In proportional representation, a quota is a lowerbound on the number of votes needed to be elected. There are a number of such schemes:

• Droop quota
• Hagenbach-Bischoff quota
• Hare quota
• Imperiali quota
• Ross quota

In computing:

• disk quota

In affirmative action:

• Racial quota

In immigration:

• Emergency Quota Act

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