“[Critics of P.R.] are unable to reconcile themselves to the loss of what they term the local character of the representation. A nation does not seem to them to consist of persons, but of artificial units, the creation of geography and statistics. Parliament must represent towns and counties, not human beings.

But I cannot see why the feelings and interests which arrange mankind according to localities, should be the only ones thought worthy of being represented; or why people who have other feelings and interests, which they value more than they do their geographical ones, should be restricted to these as the sole principle of their political classification.”                                        John Stuart Mill^#

^#Mill, John Stuart,  "Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only.", Representative Government, 1861.