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The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998

1E elections

Table 1E1 Parliamentary electors by constituency, 1996 and 1997

Parliamentary constituency	Total electors		Attainers¹
Parliamentary constituency	1996	1997	1996	1997
Scotland	3,984,406	3,992,502	48,064	47,516

Aberdeen Central	54,548	53,713	365	362
Aberdeen North	54,895	55,009	744	605
Aberdeen South	60,982	60,968	618	501
Airdrie & Shotts	58,255	58,534	731	694
Angus	60,359	60,427	817	709
Argyll & Bute	49,982	50,271	667	671
Ayr	56,455	57,000	786	799
Banff & Buchan	59,189	58,949	873	748
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	41,953	41,902	486	553
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley	66,392	66,588	1,003	1,129
Central Fife	58,884	59,123	714	726
Clydebank & Milngavie	52,643	52,963	691	761
Clydesdale	64,048	64,548	778	768
Coatbridge & Chryston	52,547	52,501	656	707
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth	48,590	49,201	701	691
Cunninghame North	56,147	56,374	780	831
Cunninghame South	50,234	50,727	867	906
Dumbarton	56,875	57,013	811	837
Dumfries	63,360	63,513	754	715
Dundee East	58,790	58,629	504	634
Dundee West	57,809	56,937	581	573
Dunfermline East	52,530	52,200	575	608
Dunfermline West	53,005	53,361	675	641
East Kilbride	65,915	66,479	861	834
East Lothian	57,988	58,577	686	640
Eastwood	67,525	68,021	1,039	1,131
Edinburgh Central	63,969	64,051	344	253
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	60,097	60,364	564	523
Edinburgh North and Leith	61,962	61,786	433	347
Edinburgh Pentlands	60,338	60,729	882	745
Edinburgh South	62,949	63,775	605	503
Edinburgh West	61,715	61,988	731	625
Falkirk East	57,331	57,629	677	751
Falkirk West	53,308	53,427	575	656
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	53,273	53,406	655	556
Glasgow Anniesland	53,324	53,397	463	501
Glasgow Baillieston	51,589	49,062	549	543
Glasgow Cathcart	49,765	50,429	569	554
Glasgow Govan	50,150	50,870	394	426
Glasgow Kelvin	57,695	57,058	323	355
Glasgow Maryhill	52,854	53,506	416	420
Glasgow Pollok	49,693	48,303	513	499
Glasgow Rutherglen	51,106	51,059	578	589
Glasgow Shettleston	48,270	48,209	351	319
Glasgow Springburn	53,814	53,427	428	406
Gordon	59,503	59,621	924	807
Greenock & Inverclyde	49,364	49,400	685	732
Hamilton North & Bellshill	54,158	54,403	691	666
Hamilton South	47,023	47,145	579	592
Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber	66,278	66,531	724	807
Kilmarnock & Loudoun	62,091	62,171	897	924
Kirkcaldy	52,618	52,079	542	592
Linlithgow	54,258	54,728	693	674
Livingston	60,944	61,800	813	773
Midlothian	48,045	48,772	619	669
Moray	58,957	58,845	822	805
Motherwell & Wishaw	52,702	53,004	565	576
North East Fife	59,352	59,820	701	757
North Tayside	62,007	62,230	765	765
Ochil	57,170	57,715	751	798
Orkney Islands Area	32,621	32,761	414	490
Paisley North	50,261	49,915	673	617
Paisley South	54,573	54,436	669	662
Perth	60,887	61,457	720	708
Ross, Skye & Inverness West	56,141	56,448	630	690
Roxburgh & Berwickshire	47,739	47,907	602	550
Stirling	53,069	53,452	726	660
Strathkelvin & Bearsden	63,822	64,016	1,064	1,128
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	51,448	51,811	699	744
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine	59,884	60,270	955	857
West Renfrewshire	53,096	53,223	939	889
Western Isles	23,293	22,539	389	239

Source: General Register Office (Scotland)

¹ An attainer is a person who attains the age of 18 during the currency of the register, and who is therefore entitled to vote at an election on or after their eighteenth birthday.