§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the percentage of electors voting in local government elections for each county council, metropolitan borough council and London borough council since 1974.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information requested is contained in a number of different publications which are available in the Library. The main ones are:
1974–79 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys "Electoral Statistics" series 1980–87 Publications by Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester, Sussex 1988 onwards Publications by the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth (formerly Plymouth Polytechnic) in the Local Elections Handbook series 1990 London Borough elections data published by the London Research Centre, 81 Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SZ ("London Borough Council Elections, 3 May 1990").