§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the largest number of electors who have been asked to elect a candidate without the opportunity of receiving free postal deliveries from those competing for election. [HL895]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Lord Whitty)There are no free postal deliveries for candidates for local government elections. I understand the elections to the Greater London Council were classified as local government elections. Prior to 1973 the election of councillors to the GLC was based on multi-member electoral areas, the largest of which was Croydon in 1970, with an electorate of some 240,000 electing four candidates.