Total Electorate

Year	Total Electorate
23 Feb 1950	42,374
25 Oct 1951	42,728
26 May 1955	57,404
08 Oct 1959	62,854
15 Oct 1964	69,338
31 Mar 1966	72,348
18 Jun 1970	85,801
28 Feb 1974	71,842
10 Oct 1974	72,587
03 May 1979	80,355
09 Jun 1983	71,343
11 Jun 1987	75,187
09 Apr 1992	80,254
01 May 1997	73,680
05 May 2005	75,326
06 May 2010	79,144
07 May 2015	79,512
08 Jun 2017	82,924
12 Dec 2019	83,414

Date:	Source:
1950 - 1970	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1974 - 1992	Kimber, Political Science Resources
1997	Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Wikipedia
2005 - 2019	House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
2010	The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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