"territorial representation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a particular group of people (such as a certain state) that is represented by an elected official. For example, "The senator was elected to the state assembly for territorial representation."
The system thus combined central supervision of local affairs through appointed officials with territorial representation through locally elected governments.
Advocates of territorial representation – let's call them territorialists – recognise the deep-rooted British tradition of having one person representing one territorially defined community.
They asked for Ceylonese participation in the executive branch, a wider territorial representation in the legislature, and the adoption of the elective principle in place of nomination.
While Sinhalese leaders wanted to do away with communal representation and make territorial representation universal, minorities aimed to retain it to secure power for their own communities.
The Senate is described in the constitution as the "chamber of territorial representation," but only about one-fifth of the senators are actually chosen as representatives of the autonomous communities.
We carried out an epidemiological study, with a probability sampling procedure, stratified, relative to the municipality size and the number of health centres, seeking territorial representation.
American federalism allocates authority and organizes representation along territorial lines.
The Soulbury Commission (headed by the 1st Baron, afterward 1st Viscount, Soulbury) called for the retention of universal adult suffrage and territorial rather than communal representation, as specified by the constitution of 1931, which was based on the recommendations of the Donoughmore Commission (1927).
In savannah areas with high population densities that are characterized by human and livestock migration movements, this schematic representation of territorial organization has evolved greatly because cultivated fields are now integrated into networks of areas dedicated to pasture.
They wanted checks on executive power, such as an effective legislature with territorial (and perhaps ethno-cultural) representation.
Problems of apportionment, in contrast to problems of districting, stem from efforts to reconcile the territorial and population bases of representation.
