The essence of representative democracy is that the representatives share the diverse views of the voters in proportion to the number of voters with those views. Quota-preferential proportional representation is the only electoral system that can guarantee this. With the current system of single member electorates, up to half the votes in each electorate can be wasted (not contribute to electing anyone) and that has clearly been very unrepresentative (see Appendix A). Using quota-preferential vote counting with at least five members per electorate, nearly all votes help elect a representative. With significantly larger numbers of members per electorate, practical problems such as the number of candidates and size of ballot papers can become significant, without greatly increasing the degree of proportionality. Thus we advocate a moderate number, between five and eleven.