HC Deb 08 March 1978 vol 945 cc707-8W
Mr. Gordon Wilson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the proportion of the total electorate which voted for each Member of Parliament in Scotland at the last General Election.

Mr. Harry Ewing

The information is as follows:

PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY AND PERCENTAGE OF THOSE ON THE ELECTORAL REGISTER* WHO VOTED FOR THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE
Aberdeen North … … 35.1
Aberdeen South … … 26.9
East Aberdeenshire … … 33.9
West Aberdeenshire … … 27.1
North Angus and Mearns … … 31.3
South Angus … … 32.5
Argyll … … 35.6
Ayr … … 33.5
Bute and North Ayrshire … … 27.6
Central Ayrshire … … 35.6
Kilmarnock … … 36.6
South Ayrshire … … 43.3
Banff … … 33.0
Berwick and East Lothian … … 35.8
Caithness and Sutherland … … 27.4
Coatbridge and Airdrie … … 38.2
Dumfries … 29.6
Central Dunbartonshire … 31.9
East Dunbartonshire … 25.1
West Dunbartonshire … 29.7
Dundee East … 34.6
Dundee West … 30.4
Edinburgh Central … 27.1
Edinburgh East … 34.1
Edinburgh Leith … 29.6
Edinburgh North … 27.1
Edinburgh Pentlands … 25.5
Edinburgh South … 26.5
Edinburgh West … 29.0
Central Fife … 38.2
Dunfermline … 30.3
East Fife … 23.3
Kirkcaldy … 33.9
Glasgow Cathcart … 32.5
Glasgow Central … 36.1
Glasgow Craigton … 38.1
Glasgow Carscadden … 35.9
Glasgow Govan … 35.4
Glasgow Hillhead … 26.8
Glasgow Kelvingrove … 27.1
Glasgow Maryhill … 37.9
Glasgow Pollock … 31.3
Glasgow Provan … 37.3
Glasgow Queen's Park … 37.5
Glasgow Shettleston … 34.9
Glasgow Springburn … 36.2
Greenock and Port Glasgow … 34.1
Inverness … 22.7
Ross and Cromarty … 26.9
Western Isles … 38.8
Galloway … 30.9
Both well … 37.0
East Kilbride … 32.9
Hamilton … 36.5
Lanark … 30.7
North Lanarkshire … 36.5
Rutherelen … 34.8
Midlothian … 32.0
Moray and Nairn … 30.6
Motherwell and Wishaw … 33.4
Paisley … 32.2
Orkney and Zetland … 37.4
Kinross and West Perthshire … 31.2
Perth and East Perthshire … 29.9
East Renfrewshire … 31.9
West Renfrewshire … 30.7
Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles … 34.4
Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth … 34.1
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire … 41.3
West Stirlingshire … 31.4
West Lothian … 35.1
* These percentages were based on the number of electors in each constituency as shown on the electoral register and published in "Election Expenses" (House of Commons Paper 478) on 28th July 1975.