HC Deb 28 March 1996 vol 274 cc669-71W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the electorates of each of the new parliamentary constituencies in Scotland as at 16 February. [22652]

Lord James Douglas Hamilton

The information is as follows:

Constituency Number
Aberdeen Central 56,162
Aberdeen North 54,580
Aberdeen South 60,877
Airdrie and Shotts 58,549
Angus 60,255
Argyll and Bute 49,869
Ayr 56,199
Banff and Buchan 59,128
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 41,813
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 66,690
Central Fife 58,889
Clydebank and Milngavie 52,057
Clydesdale 63,338
Coatbridge and Chryston 52,663
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 48,112
Cunninghame North 56,137
Cunninghame South 49,961
Dumbarton 56,858
Dumfries 63,259
Dundee East 58,659
Dundee West 57,131
Dunfermline East 51,630
Dunfermline West 53,399
East Kilbride 65,455
East Lothian 57,516
Eastwood 66,884
Edinburgh Central 62,521
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 59,535
Edinburgh North and Leith 61,527
Edinburgh Pentlands 60,089
Edinburgh South 62,832
Edinburgh West 61,590
Falkirk East 57,104
Falkirk West 53,440
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 53,380
Glasgow Anniesland 52,815
Glasgow Baillieston 51,159
Glasgow Cathcart 49,667
Glasgow Govan 49,600
Glasgow Kelvin 56,181
Glasgow Maryhill 51,589
Glasgow Pollok 49,403
Glasgow Rutherglen 51,127
Glasgow Shettleston 48,374
Glasgow Springburn 52,830
Gordon 59,033
Greenock and Inverclyde 49,964
Hamilton North and Bellshill 54,039
Hamilton South 47,019
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 65,424
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 62,359
Kirkcaldy 52,174
Linlithgow 53,948
Livingston 59,666
Midlothian 47,893
Moray 58,983
Motherwell and Wishaw 52,513
Constituency Number
North East Fife 58,493
North Tayside 61,661
Ochil 57,141
Orkney and Shetland 32,635
Paisley North 49,905
Paisley South 53,909
Perth 60,217
Ross, Skye and Inverness West 55,653
Roxburgh and Berwickshire 47,520
Stirling 52,634
Strathkelvin and Bearsden 63,386
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 50,999
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 58,797
Western Isles 23,208
West Renfrewshire 53,066

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