It is commonly assumed that parties in European parliamentary systems differ in terms of the social interests that they represent and that ideology is a key factor in shaping parties’ representational profiles. Less attention has been paid to the limitations that contextual factors place on the ability and willingness of parties to represent particular social interests. We suggest that the objective political context makes all competitors more likely to represent certain social groups while ignoring the interests of others. The upshot of the impact of objective conditions on political representation is more homogenous representational profiles of all parties in different political contexts than one would expect based on ideological considerations alone. To test this hypothesis, we rely on a novel dataset of over 22,000 parliamentary questions from 30 German city councils. The local level is particularly suited to analyze the impact of contextual factors on political representation as different party branches of the same party compete in different contexts under otherwise comparable institutional constraints. Therefore, the objective political conditions are the only varying factor that should impact political representation. The study relies on supervised text classification to analyze the representation of social groups in the parliamentary questions. Our results support the expectation that parties adapt their representational profiles to local conditions and that representation behavior converges under different political contexts between parties.