Total Electorate

Year	Total Electorate
23 Feb 1950	50,672
25 Oct 1951	51,867
26 May 1955	57,119
08 Oct 1959	64,295
15 Oct 1964	77,207
31 Mar 1966	80,887
18 Jun 1970	93,579
28 Feb 1974	67,371
10 Oct 1974	67,916
03 May 1979	72,670
09 Jun 1983	78,327
11 Jun 1987	82,471
09 Apr 1992	80,814
01 May 1997	70,053
05 May 2005	72,676
06 May 2010	73,837
07 May 2015	74,269
08 Jun 2017	76,170
12 Dec 2019	75,424

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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