§ Mr. Tomneyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the total number of registered electors in Great Britain and Northern Ireland as at 15th March, 1954, and the size of the electorate, on the same date, comprised in London boroughs, English boroughs. Welsh boroughs, English counties, Welsh counties and Northern Ireland, respectively.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThe total number of Parliamentary electors in the United Kingdom in the 1954 register is 35,017,235. In the 1953 register, from which the electoral quota is calculated for the purpose of the current general review of constituencies, the number was 35,000,855. The detailed figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland are as follows:
— 1954 1953 Borough constituencies: London 2,401,255 2,425,167 England (excluding London and Monmouthshire) 14,372,817 14,419,215 Wales and Monmouthshire 541,823 541,743 County constituencies: England (excluding Monmouthshire) 12,146,909 12,059,650 Wales and Monmouthshire 1,272,477 1,271,345 Northern Ireland 874,701 875,958