§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of voters in each Scottish constituency on(a) the current electoral register and (b) the recently-compiled draft electoral register.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information is as follows:
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Number of electors Constituency 1987 electoral register published in February 11988 draft electoral register Aberdeen North 63,751 61,714 Aberdeen South 63,293 58,425 Angus East 61,597 61,687 Argyll and Bute 49,272 49,175 450W
Number of electors Constituency 1987 electoral register published in February 11988 draft electoral register Ayr 67,224 66,723 Banff and Buchan 62,867 63,071 Caithness and Sutherland 31,519 30,978 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 57,196 56,457 Central Fife 56,666 56,267 Clackmannan 49,583 49,071 Clydebank and Milngavie 50,824 49,868 Clydesdale 62,429 62,524 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 46,140 46,126 Cunninghame North 55,544 55,277 Cunninghame South 50,538 50,210 Dumbarton 59,705 58,859 Dumfries 59,992 59,845 Dundee East 61,351 60,934 Dundee West 62,453 61,331 Dunfermline East 51,688 50,868 Dunfermline West 51,581 51,113 East Kilbride 63,998 63,749 East Lothian 65,603 64,938 Eastwood 62,713 62,877 Edinburgh Central 59,757 57,507 Edinburgh East 49,236 48,142 Edinburgh Leith 60,687 59,220 Edinburgh Pentlands 58,649 58,178 Edinburgh South 64,225 62,988 Edinburgh West 62,730 61,817 Falkirk East 53,040 52,662 Falkirk West 50,706 50,564 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 53,994 53,486 Glasgow Cathcart 49,832 48,647 Glasgow Central 51,562 50,625 Glasgow Garscadden 48,486 46,861 Glasgow Govan 51,151 49,983 Glasgow Hillhead 58,246 57,254 Glasgow Maryhill 52,948 51,508 Glasgow Pollok 52,021 50,686 Glasgow Provan 44,394 42,677 Glasgow Rutherglen 58,075 56,875 Glasgow Shettleston 54,224 53,589 Glasgow Springburn 52,164 50,116 Gordon 74,199 75,134 Greenock and Port Glasgow 58,490 57,031 Hamilton 63,155 63,011 Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber 67,336 66,650 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 63,441 63,037 Kincardine and Deeside 64,219 64,156 Kirkcaldy 53,922 53,742 Linlithgow 60,014 60,218 Livingston 57,231 57,414 Midlothian 61,130 60,700 Monklands East 50,406 50,175 Monklands West 51,613 51,200 Moray 62,917 63,401 Motherwell North 58,539 58,336 Motherwell South 52,842 52,475 North East Fife 52,770 52,023 North Tayside 54,464 54,460 Orkney and Shetland 31,332 31,142 Paisley North 50,020 49,139 Paisley South 51,834 50,389 Perth and Kinross 63,965 63,869 Renfrew West and Inverclyde 56,958 56,750 Ross, Cromarty and Skye 52,808 52,174 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 43,646 43,606
Number of electors Constituency 1987 electoral register published in February 11988 draft electoral register Stirling 58,441 58,600 Strathkelvin and Bearsden 63,579 63,064 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 38,283 38,404 Western Isles 23,685 23,093 Total 3,994,893 3,948,865 1 The figures in this column exclude overseas electors of whom there are approximately 800 in the 1987 register.