Not much change from 1970, except the four main points highlighted above: creation of Greater London, mucking about in what is now Cambridgeshire, creation of Teesside CB, swaps in the Black Country.
Either way, we haven't clarified whether this exercise goes on to use the current (2013) districts and wards within each old-time county, or the urban/rural districts existing at the time. If the latter, it'll be a nightmare.
Not so difficult. The best thing to do is not get too bogged down in the districts (they don't get too bogged down in the today!) but try and create natural seats. Some of them will be broadly similar to what existed up until 1983.
In drawing up figures for Scotland I've used the ward electorates, but due to rather huge differences between now and then I've also used the civil parish figures for 2001 (age 16+) While the electorate has increased of course the changes have been fairly consistent. For example the 16+ population of the old Aberdeen Burgh was 127,957 which would entitle it to two seats at Holyrood. Dundee was 119,757, also two seats. Stirlingshire is 189,659 which with Clackmannan would give it 4 seats etc for example. I'll work on it
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I'm working from this;