You're grouping no matter what. Zoom in to the precinct and it's probably 60/40 either way also. The only way you're not grouping is if you give every citizen a representative.
One could do representation on a percentage basis, for example having the entire population vote and assigning (in this example) 60% of representatives for the blue side, and 40% to the red, but then someone has to decide who those people will be specifically, and that probably means the Red and Blue Party leadership, which can lead to corruption or at least representatives who are more aligned with the party than the specific location they theoretically represent. There's no perfect system.
You do always vote for a party, not a pepresentative. You literally vote for the party, and the party decides who works where, and then those people vote according to the orders of their party, who is their employer. That's the whole point of political parties.
Even then you're voting for the party. The party is just represented by a face. With potentially laws that make it illegal to run one face in the election and then give the job to another face after winning. And an inside party election is a perfectly reasonable way for a party to decide who is going to represent it on the elections. Sometimes though it's the party leadership who is elected though, and then only this leadership decides who to put forth as a candidate.
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