Total Electorate

Year	Total Electorate
14 Dec 1918	33,150
15 Nov 1922	33,836
06 Dec 1923	34,871
29 Oct 1924	36,310
30 May 1929	54,962
27 Oct 1931	55,592
14 Nov 1935	57,951
05 Jul 1945	68,456
23 Feb 1950	64,590
25 Oct 1951	65,018
06 Feb 1952	65,018
26 May 1955	62,618
08 Oct 1959	62,466
15 Oct 1964	60,288
31 Mar 1966	60,218
18 Jun 1970	64,772
28 Feb 1974	65,580
10 Oct 1974	66,109
03 May 1979	68,385
09 Jun 1983	70,089
11 Jun 1987	71,443
09 Apr 1992	71,444
01 May 1997	70,194
05 May 2005	67,530
06 May 2010	67,200
07 May 2015	67,326
08 Jun 2017	69,400
12 Dec 2019	70,837

Date:	Source:
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	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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