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Representativeness implies that electoral district boundaries be drawn in such a way that voters will have an opportunity to elect candidates they feel will truly represent them, without neglecting the interest of the whole country since they are the representatives of the people as a whole. Very often representativeness as a principle risks colliding with different “communities of interests” of the voters and the people. For instance, communities of interests could correspond to those who share a common ethnic, lingual or religious background. Geographically defined communities within the same administrative boundaries, or physical entities such as islands, can also be considered communities of interests. This will lead to addressing representation of minorities through delimitation of constituencies.