§ 29. Sir John Graham Kerrasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will state the total number of electors to the Legislative Assembly in such Provinces of British India as have provided the necessary information; and, in each case, the proportion borne by the elector ate to the total adult population.
§ Mr. A. HendersonI have now received an advance copy of the information which, as stated in my reply to the hon. Member's Question on 20th May, will in due course be published in a return showing the results of the elections in India. The total electorate for all classes of constituencies in the recent Indian Legislative Assembly elections was 1,610,692. The number on the electoral rolls in contested constituencies was 1,033,346, and the number of votes polled was 539,881, and not 583,351 as stated in my answer to the hon. Member's Question on 6th May. The 1941 census does not record separately the total adult population of India, but according to a rough estimate worked out by the Government of India the number of persons in British India above 20 years of age is 155,000,000. The percentage of the total electorate to this figure is 1.04 per cent.