PARLIAMENTARY TABLES

     LIST OF THE COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ENTITLED TO RETURN MEMBERS TO PARLIAMENT, WITH THE POPULATION (IN 1851) OF EACH, THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED ELECTORS AND THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS RETURNABLE. ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN EACH.

     C stands for county and B for borough, or other electoral district not being a parliamentary division of a county, and the letters E, W, S, or I prefixed, signify English, Welsh, Scotch, or Irish.

CLASS I
OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CONTAINING UPWARDS OF 300,000 INHABITANTS

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CLASS II
OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CONTAINING UPWARDS OF 100,000, BUT FEWER THAN 200,000 INHABITANTS

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CLASS III
OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CONTAINING UPWARDS OF 40,000, BUT FEWER THAN 100,000 INHABITANTS

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CLASS IV
OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CONTAINING UPWARDS OF 20,000, BUT FEWER THAN 40,000 INHABITANTS

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CLASS V
OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS CONTAINING FEWER THAN 20,000 INHABITANTS
(Only Hants & IOW Districts shown)

Name of CountyCountry/ BoroughNo. of MembersInhabitants 1851No. of Voters
WinchesterE.B.213,704788
HytheE.B.113,164856
Newport, Isle of WightE.B.28,047707
ChristchurchE.B.17,475313
PetersfieldE.B.15,550353
AndoverE.B.25,395241
LymingtonE.B.25,282338


FIRST SUMMARY

No of MembersInhabitants 1851Voters
CLASS I
Of Districts containing upwards of 200,000 Inhabitants		548,778,274350,547
CLASS II
Of Districts containing upwards of 100,000 but fewer than 200,000 Inhabitants		1449,786,088427,754
CLASS III
Of Districts containing upwards of 40,000 but fewer than 100,000 Inhabitants
1365,593,175255,827
CLASS IV
Of Districts containing upwards of 20,000 but fewer than 40,000 Inhabitants
841,762,29778,545
CLASS V
Of Districts containing fewer than 20,000 Inhabitants
2301,538,47487,737
TOTALS64827,458,3081,200,400


SECOND SUMMARY

No. of MembersInhabitants 1851Voters
CLASSES I, II, & III
Of Districts containing upwards of 40,000 Inhabitants		33424,157,5371,034,118
CLASSES IV & V
Of Districts containing fewer than 40,000 Inhabitants		3143,300,771166,282
TOTALS64827,458,3081,200,400


THIRD SUMMARY

No. of MembersInhabitants 1851Voters
CLASSES I & II
Of Districts containing upwards of 100,000 Inhabitants		19818,564,362778,301
CLASSES III & IV
Of Districts containing upwards of 20,000, but fewer than 100,000 Inhabitants		2207,355,472334,362
CLASSES V
Of Districts containing fewer than 20,000 Inhabitants		2301,538,47487,737
TOTALS64827,458,3081,200,400

     NOTE.—The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin, return each two members, making the total number of members returnable to Parliament 654. These institutions have not been included in the above List and Summaries, as their claims to representation are founded on other grounds than population.