Total Electorate

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Year Total Electorate
08 Jan 1833 721,126 Show data context
06 Feb 1835 745,212 Show data context
18 Aug 1837 880,368 Show data context
22 Jul 1841 921,029 Show data context
26 Aug 1847 979,528 Show data context
31 Jul 1852 1,018,520 Show data context
24 Apr 1857 1,042,785 Show data context
18 May 1859 1,069,889 Show data context
24 Jul 1865 1,145,810 Show data context
07 Dec 1868 2,259,161 Show data context
17 Feb 1874 2,527,092 Show data context
27 Apr 1880 2,807,299 Show data context
18 Dec 1885 4,838,195 Show data context
27 Jul 1886 3,486,253 Show data context
26 Jul 1892 5,028,857 Show data context
07 Aug 1895 4,308,644 Show data context
24 Oct 1900 4,136,174 Show data context
08 Feb 1906 6,183,613 Show data context
10 Feb 1910 6,937,566 Show data context
19 Dec 1910 5,746,726 Show data context
14 Dec 1918 19,142,618 Show data context
15 Nov 1922 20,142,507 Show data context
06 Dec 1923 20,442,306 Show data context
29 Oct 1924 21,003,285 Show data context
30 May 1929 28,028,309 Show data context
27 Oct 1931 28,968,805 Show data context
14 Nov 1935 30,495,647 Show data context
05 Jul 1945 32,399,277 Show data context
23 Feb 1950 33,545,931 Show data context
25 Oct 1951 34,036,102 Show data context
26 May 1955 33,977,739 Show data context
08 Oct 1959 34,519,542 Show data context
15 Oct 1964 35,004,742 Show data context
31 Mar 1966 35,059,814 Show data context
18 Jun 1970 38,347,266 Show data context
28 Feb 1974 38,727,458 Show data context
10 Oct 1974 39,064,742 Show data context
03 May 1979 40,000,792 Show data context
09 Jun 1983 41,138,113 Show data context
11 Jun 1987 42,091,176 Show data context
09 Apr 1992 42,150,416 Show data context
01 May 1997 42,609,051 Show data context
05 May 2005 43,105,946 Show data context
06 May 2010 44,428,277 Show data context
07 May 2015 45,117,432 Show data context
08 Jun 2017 45,583,783 Show data context
12 Dec 2019 46,273,781 Show data context
Date: Source:
1833 - 1880 F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
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 - 2005 House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
2010 - 2019 The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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Number of persons entitled and registered to vote.


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Date accessed: 23rd April 2024