§ 1986. Mr. Haywardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of constituencies to which each county of England was entitled on the basis of the electoral quotas given in his answer of 26 November, Official Report, column 286–7, in (a) 1976 and (b)
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§ Mrs. CurrieThe information requested is given in the table. The number of constituencies to which a county is theoretically entitled has been obtained by dividing the electorate of the county by the electoral quota.
County Number of constituencies: theoretical entitlement 1976 1986 Greater London 79.97 74.45 Greater Manchester 29.69 28.48 Merseyside 17.68 16.41 South Yorkshire 14.71 14.60 Tyne and Wear 13.48 12.98 West Midlands 30.30 29.10 West Yorkshire 22.92 22.61 Avon 10.29 10.54 Bedfordshire 5.08 5.52 Berkshire 7.01 7.83 Buckinghamshire 5.47 6.54 Cambridgeshire 5.93 6.72 Cheshire 9.86 10.49 Cleveland 6.13 6.13 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 4.67 5.04 Cumbria 5.42 5.49 Derbyshire 10.08 10.34 Devon 10.50 10.99 Dorset 6.68 7.32 Durham 6.88 6.78 East Sussex 7.82 7.94 Essex 15.78 16.89 Gloucestershire 5.43 5.76 Hampshire 15.38 16.77 Hereford and Worcester 6.55 7.27 Hertfordshire 10.28 10.80 Humberside 9.42 9.54 Isle of Wight 1.35 1.43 Kent 16.06 16.58 Lancashire 15.47 15.37 Leicestershire 9.22 9.57 Lincolnshire 5.82 6.28 Norfolk 7.57 8.11 Northamptonshire 5.50 6.04 Northumberland 3.30 3.38 North Yorkshire 7.32 7.74 Nottinghamshire 10.89 11.18 Oxfordshire 5.50 5.95 Shropshire 3.89 4.29 Somerset 4.56 5.01 Staffordshire 10.95 11.38 Suffolk 6.21 6.68 Surrey 11.21 11.50 Warwickshire 5.09 5.35 West Sussex 7.25 7.92 Wiltshire 5.43 5.94