HC Deb 05 February 1996 vol 271 cc82-4W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the electorates of the new parliamentary constituencies in Scotland as at 16 February 1995. [12730]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The electorates of the new parliamentary constituencies as at 16 February 1995 are not known, as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995 was not made until 11 April 1995. Information was collected as at 2 June 1995, however, for the purposes of the European Parliamentary constituencies review, as follows:

Parliamentary constituency Total electors 1995
Aberdeen Central 56,278
Aberdeen North 54,869
Aberdeen South 61,296
Airdrie and Shotts 59,047
Angus 60,219
Argyll and Bute 49,981
Ayr 56,138
Banff and Buchan 59,781
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 41,801
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 66,967
Central Fife 58,680
Clydebank and Milngavie 52,245
Clydesdale 63,781
Coatbridge and Chryston 52,645
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 47,895
Cunninghame North 56,073
Cunninghame South 49,826
Dumbarton 57,569
Dumfries 63,149
Dundee East 58,569
Dundee West 57,340
Dunfermline East 51,481
Dunfermline West 53,255
East Kilbride 65,519
East Lothian 57,232
Eastwood 66,280
Edinburgh Central 62,072
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 59,640
Edinburgh North and Leith 60,715
Edinburgh Pentlands 59,265
Edinburgh South 62,522
Edinburgh West 61,682
Falkirk East 56,993
Falkirk West 53,558
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 53,440
Glasgow Anniesland 53,574
Glasgow Baillieston 51,158
Glasgow Cathcart 50,578
Glasgow Govan 50,339
Glasgow Kelvin 55,722
Glasgow Maryhill 53,193
Glasgow Pollok 50,729
Glasgow Rutherglen 51,782
Glasgow Shettleston 49,845
Glasgow Sprinburn 53,598
Gordon 58,998
Greenock and Inverclyde 50,300
Hamilton North and Bellshill 53,970
Hamilton South 47,146
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 64,755
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 62,610
Kirkcaldy 52,018
Linlithgow 53,674

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Argyll and Clyde 5 17 134 170 211
Ayrshire and Arran 77 132 133
Borders 26 55 71
Dumfries and Galloway 33 92
Fife 36 85 125
Forth Valley 32 86 127 165
Grampian 85 539 1,006 1,310
Greater Glasgow 35 90 275 552
Highland 34 101 105
Parliamentary constituency Total electors 1995
Livingston 59,226
Midlothian 47,873
Moray 59,401
Motherwell and Wishaw 52,847
North-east Fife 58,390
North Tayside 61,166
Ochil 57,191
Orkney and Shetland 32,421
Paisley North 49,548
Paisley South 53,467
Perth 59,995
Ross, Skye and Inverness West 55,638
Roxburgh and Berwickshire 47,318
Stirling 52,588
Strathkelvin and Bearsden 63,495
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 51,085
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 58,248
West Renfrewshire 52,927
Western Isles 23,313