§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list, per constituency (1) the number of overseas voters on the current Scottish electoral registers; [33050]
(2) the number of electors attaining the age of 18 years on the current Scottish electoral registers. [33061]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonElectoral statistics collected from the 1996 electoral registers are based upon the new parliamentary constituencies which take effect at the next general election. The information on the numbers of overseas voters and of those attaining the age of 18 years is as follows:
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Attainers 1996 Overseas electors 1996 Scotland 44,873 1,055 Aberdeen Central 366 16 Aberdeen North 735 4 Aberdeen South 555 42
Attainers 1996 Overseas electors 1996 Airdrie and Shotts 656 5 Angus 712 12 Argyll and Bute 616 10 Ayr 800 17 Banff and Buchan 797 9 Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 468 15 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 1,009 18 Central Fife 641 2 Clydebank and Milngavie 692 11 Clydesdale 702 7 Coatbridge and Chryston 625 5 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 773 12 Cunninghame North 787 15 Cunninghame South 772 3 Dumbarton 74 16 Dumfries 673 12 Dundee East 541 17 Dundee West 504 6 Dunfermline East 568 19 Dunfermline West 675 11 East Kilbride 751 7 East Lothian 638 11 Eastwood 1,022 25 Edinburgh Central 296 43 Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 486 20 Edinburgh North and Leith 343 40 Edinburgh Pentlands 744 39 Edinburgh South 562 74 Edinburgh West 669 30 Falkirk East 678 13 Falkirk West 618 5 Glasgow and Upper Nithsdale 553 23 Glasgow Anniesland 423 9 Glasgow Baillieston 501 1 Glasgow Cathcart 453 11 Glasgow Govan 345 13 Glasgow Kelvin 300 32 Glasgow Maryhill 384 10 Glasgow Pollok 466 5 Glasgow Rutherglen 528 7 Glasgow Shettleston 279 1 Glasgow Springburn 357 2 Gordon 834 11 Greenock and Inverclyde 634 8 Hamilton North and Bellshill 635 1 Hamilton South 522 1 Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 718 27 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 872 8 Kirkcaldy 599 10 Linlithgow 669 11 Livingston 781 3 Midlothian 534 7 Moray 800 11 Motherwell and Wishaw 529 4 North East Fife 669 40 North Tayside 689 23 Ochil 791 14 Orkney and Shetland 464 7 Paisley North 598 5 Paisley South 629 9 Perth 685 18 Ross, Skye and Inverness West 611 15 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 557 6 Stirling 636 33 Strathkelvin and Bearsden 910 6 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 684 25 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 934 29 West Renfrewshire 815 16 Western Isles 269 2