title: Representative
text: # Representative
  
  Representative may refer to:
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people
  * House of Representatives, legislative body in various countries or sub-national entities
  * Legislator, someone who is a member of a legislature
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Representative (mathematics), an element of an equivalence class representing the class
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Sales representative
  * Manufacturers' representative
  * Customer service representative
  * Holiday rep
  * Representative sample, in statistics a sample or subset meant to represent a population
  * Representative director (Japan), most senior executive in charge of managing a corporation in Japan
  * The Representative (newspaper), unsuccessful 1826 London newspaper
  