Total Electorate

Year	Total Electorate
23 Feb 1950	67,424
25 Oct 1951	67,219
26 May 1955	65,770
08 Oct 1959	64,022
15 Oct 1964	63,642
31 Mar 1966	63,188
18 Jun 1970	70,381
28 Feb 1974	69,775
10 Oct 1974	71,343
03 May 1979	71,481
09 Apr 1981	72,349
20 Aug 1981	73,161
09 Jun 1983	67,842
11 Jun 1987	68,979
09 Apr 1992	70,253
01 May 1997	64,600
05 May 2005	66,415
06 May 2010	67,908
07 May 2015	70,108
08 Jun 2017	70,601
12 Dec 2019	72,848

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
1981 - 2019	House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
1997	Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Wikipedia
2010	The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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