§ Mr. Pikeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report, for each county, the average number of electors per councillor in district or metropolitan borough councils.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested for each county in England and Wales is given in the table, based on the numbers of local government electors on the 1986 electoral registers as shown in "Electoral Statistics — Local Government 1986" (OPCS monitor EL86/1).
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Number of electors* on the 1986 electoral registers per borough/district councillor in each county of England and Wales County Number of electors per councillor England Avon 2,235 Bedfordshire 1,843 Berkshire 1,926 Buckinghamshire 1,772 Cambridgeshire 1,688 Cheshire 1,663 Cleveland 1,970 Cornwall† 1,410 Cumbria 1,336 Derbyshire 1,823
County Number of electors per councillor Devon 1,711 Dorset 1,692 Durham 1,303 East Sussex 1,887 Essex 1,794 Gloucestershire 1,527 Greater London† 2,687 Greater Manchester 3,067 Hampshire 2,002 Hereford and Worcester 1,453 Hertfordshire 1,620 Humberside 1,695 Isle of Wight 1,644 Kent 1,633 Lancashire 1,501 Leicestershire 2,005 Lincolnshire 1,456 Merseyside 3,205 Norfolk 1,597 Northamptonshire 1,606 Northumberland 1,014 North Yorkshire 1,976 Nottinghamshire 1,942 Oxfordshire 1,627 Shropshire 1,255 Somerset 1,487 South Yorkshire 3,578 Staffordshire 1,736 Suffolk 1,530 Surrey 1,636 Tyne and Wear 2,647 Warwickshire 1,630 West Midlands 4,139 West Sussex 1,789 West Yorkshire 4,135 Wiltshire 1,661 Wales Clwyd 1,351 Dyfed 1,202 Gwent 1,568 Gwynedd 942 Mid Glamorgan 1,576 Powys 668 South Glamorgan 2,609 West Glamorgan 1,936 * Includes attainers, service voters, voluntary patients and peers. † Excludes the Isles of Scilly. † Excludes the City of London.