Representative
# 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
