HC Deb 15 July 1954 vol 530 cc59-60W
Mr. Tomney

asked 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 Fyfe

The 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