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Mr. William Ross
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the six largest and six smallest electorates in parliamentary constituencies and the average electorate for each constituency.
Mr. Dorrell
I have been asked to reply.
The United Kingdom constituencies with largest and smallest parliamentary electorates in 1991 were as follows:
Number
| |
Largest
| |
| Isle of Wight | 101,784 |
| Eastleigh | 91,871 |
| Huntingdon | 91,779 |
| East Hampshire | 91,519 |
| The Wrekin | 90,980 |
| Swindon | 90,343 |
Smallest
| |
| Tweeddale. Ettrick and Lauderdale | 39,608 |
| Glasgow Provan | 37,838 |
| Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | 32,754 |
| Orkney and Shetland | 31,355 |
| Caithness and Sutherland | 31,120 |
| Western Isles | 23,073 |
The average parliamentary constituency electorates in 1991 were 66,908 in the United Kingdom and 66,915 in Great Britain, counting Milton Keynes as two constituencies in both cases. Corresponding information relating to the 1992 registers is not yet available.