Total Votes Cast

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Year Total Votes Cast
18 Dec 1885 7,005 Show data context
27 Jul 1886 -1 Show data context
26 Jul 1892 -1 Show data context
07 Aug 1895 -1 Show data context
15 Feb 1898 -1 Show data context
24 Oct 1900 -1 Show data context
08 Feb 1906 10,366 Show data context
10 Feb 1910 10,801 Show data context
19 Dec 1910 -1 Show data context
14 Dec 1918 17,749 Show data context
15 Nov 1922 -1 Show data context
06 Dec 1923 21,421 Show data context
29 Oct 1924 24,566 Show data context
30 May 1929 36,660 Show data context
27 Oct 1931 38,242 Show data context
14 Nov 1935 34,624 Show data context
18 Dec 1940 -1 Show data context
05 Jul 1945 40,208 Show data context
23 Feb 1950 46,916 Show data context
25 Oct 1951 45,850 Show data context
02 Jul 1953 29,777 Show data context
26 May 1955 39,888 Show data context
08 Oct 1959 37,874 Show data context
15 Oct 1964 33,877 Show data context
31 Mar 1966 35,033 Show data context
18 Jun 1970 37,462 Show data context
28 Feb 1974 48,299 Show data context
10 Oct 1974 44,326 Show data context
03 May 1979 46,564 Show data context
09 Jun 1983 36,474 Show data context
11 Jun 1987 37,318 Show data context
09 Apr 1992 37,813 Show data context
01 May 1997 48,465 Show data context
07 Jun 2001 37,749 Show data context
05 May 2005 37,631 Show data context
06 May 2010 41,571 Show data context
07 May 2015 41,293 Show data context
Date: Source:
1885 - 1910 F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1918 - 1945 F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
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 - 2015 House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
2010 The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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Total number of votes cast. In multi-member constituencies this will be different from the total number of people voting.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Birmingham Edgbaston PBDivCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Total Votes Cast, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 23rd May 2024