§ 61. Mr. Speedasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list all the constituencies in England and 142W Wales, together with the size of their electorate, whose electorates were 85,000 and over and 25,000 and under, respectively, as published in the Electoral Registers just issued.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesStatistics of electorates of constituencies in England and Wales as at 16th February, 1969, have not yet been collected centrally.
There was no constituency in Wales with a 1968 electorate above 85,000 or below 25,000. The following is the list of such constituencies in England.
Constituency (above 85,000 electors) 1968 electorate Billericay 109,319 Epping 102,872 Portsmouth Langstone 102,582 Cheadle 97,875 Hitchin 96,738 Wokingham 95,811 Horsham 94,137 Hornchurch 93,538 Arundel and Shoreham 92,990 Huyton 92,845 Harborough 92,673 South East Essex 91,937 South Bedfordshire 91,335 Gosport and Fareham 91,142 Hemel Hempstead 89,003 Brierley Hill 88,416 Birmingham. Northfield 87,184 Wirral 86,278 Kettering 85,798 South Buckinghamshire 85,695 Woking 85,580 Wycombe 85,190 Sutton Coldfield 85,185 Constituency (below 25,000 electors) Birmingham, Ladywood 20,730 Manchester. Exchange 19,573