Total Electorate

Year	Total Electorate
23 Feb 1950	51,873
25 Oct 1951	52,914
26 May 1955	53,183
08 Oct 1959	54,225
15 Oct 1964	55,193
31 Mar 1966	55,583
18 Jun 1970	63,564
28 Feb 1974	69,629
10 Oct 1974	70,244
03 May 1979	76,455
09 Jun 1983	70,668
11 Jun 1987	73,660
09 Apr 1992	75,451
01 May 1997	68,945
05 May 2005	71,788
06 May 2010	77,505
07 May 2015	75,217
08 Jun 2017	79,607
12 Dec 2019	79,764

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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