§ 36. Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present average size of the electorate of the parliamentary constituencies in England.
§ Mr. MayhewOn the 1981 register the electoral quota for England,id est the average size of electorate of the parliamentary constituencies, is 67,961. This figure was published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys on 12 May in the OPCS monitor "Electoral Statistics—parliamentary" reference EL 81/2, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.