The phrase "alternative representative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a person who acts as a substitute or different option for a representative role.
Example: "In the absence of the main delegate, the committee appointed an alternative representative to attend the conference."
Alternatives: "substitute representative" or "backup representative".
Mr. McCall left the Senate in 1979 to be alternative representative for special affairs at the United States Mission to the United Nations.
The U.S. and the U.N. Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg, alternative representative for special political affairs for the United States Mission to the United Nations, will be the speaker at a World Affairs Council noon lunch on Friday at the Hartford Club, 46 Prospect Street in Hartford.
Mr. Grenell was also appointed by John C. Danforth in 2004 as an Alternative Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Security Council with full voting rights and privileges.
Clarke served both terms of the George W. Bush administration, where his last diplomatic posting was as a Delegate to the United Nations and Alternative Representative to the United Nations Security Council, where he sought to bring about greater transparency and accountability to the international body.
"The Republican leadership cannot say this is a conscience vote, if they don't allow members of Congress to express their conscience to voice an alternative," said Representative Peter J. King, a Long Island Republican who opposes impeachment.
Since assembly democracy cannot be an option in modern societies (outside Switzerland), direct-democratic institutions are regarded not as a full-scale system alternative to representative democracy but as a supplement to or counterweight within democratic systems with major representative features.
Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack would have triggered a nationwide "Who?" The serious alternative was Representative Dick Gephardt.
House Democrats rallied around an alternative by Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina, that would have authorized force in conjunction with the United Nations.
"The president has let the debate on health care down by not offering an alternative," said Representative John R. Kuhl Jr., Republican of New York.
"What's their alternative?" said Representative Peter T. King, a Long Island Republican who has often been at odds with his party's leadership.
"I don't want to say where I am until I read the legislation, but it is certainly better than the alternative," said Representative Charlie Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania.
