14 WHAT AEE THE CONDITIONS WHICH DETEEMINE, ETC. 



Practically the proportion per quota of electors and popu- 

 lation yield the same result in the detail representation for 

 each sub-division ; and the proportion per quota of property 

 i» remarkably close upon the whole. 



Nay, so far as urban populations are concerned, the pro- 

 portion per quota yielded by Property, Electors, and 

 Populations invariably shows the very closest correspondence, 

 thus : — 



EiEPKESENTATION OF LOCALITIES 



Having disposed of the question regarding the best method 

 to be adopted for securing a just and equitable representa- 

 tion of the people, there is still a most important end to be 

 secured, viz., a just and equitable representation for distinct, 

 localities. For it may readily be conceived that, although 

 each individual of a quota had an equal voice in the selection 

 of the Parliamentary representative, their locality interests, by 

 the bad grouping of the boundaries or limits of the electoral 

 district, may be so conflicting as to deprive the electors of 

 power to give effect to them ; or, what is the same, their 

 representative would be so hampered by rival suggestions, 

 destructive of each other in regard to locality interests, that 

 he would be powerless to take any action in Parliament in 

 respect of either rival interest. 



This is more readily appreciated when we remember that 

 each elector is governed by at least three primary interests, 

 which often conflict with each other in respect to his own 

 individual choice, viz.: — 



1. Eeligious, Moral, and Intellectual Interests and 



Sympathies. 



2. Trade or Calling, or Class Interests and Sympathies. 



3. Locality Interests and Sympathies. 



4. Personal Sympathies. 



