Bermuda will have over 39,000 people qualified to vote by June this year, according to the latest figures.

That number includes those who will be 18 years old by June this year. The data was handed out to members of the public at Wednesday's meeting with the Boundaries Commission in St. George's. The figures also show the numbers of people registered by constituency and census district. And they show that some constituencies have hundreds more voters than others.

Warwick East, for example, with 2,720 voters has twice as many as Paget East which has 1,360, 18 of which are non-Bermudians. The four largest constituencies, by voter population, are Warwick East, Warwick West, Sandys North and Sandys South. And the four smallest ones are Paget East, Paget West, Smith's North, Hamilton West and Smith's South.

Non-Bermudians with voting privileges now number a mere 250 people across the country - with the largest population being in Warwick East.

The subject of non-Bermudians on the Island's electoral rolls was among the electoral reform items hotly debated at the 1979 constitutional conference. In the end, a compromise was reached that all those who were registered on May 1976 would remain on the list.

The Boundaries Commission had requested the data from the Statistics Department, the Parliamentary Registrar and the Works and Engineering Department to aid it in its deliberations, and promised to release the information to the public.

Latest census figures, collected in May 2000, were used in compiling the data.

Over 2,000 voters will have been added to the electoral rolls by June compared to the last available figures from the Parliamentary Registrar - the majority of those additions a result of people reaching the voting age since the last census.

According to the Parliamentary Register - as of June 16 last year, there were 36,699 voters. The Census data figures show 38,903 people qualified to be registered by May, plus 250 non-Bermudian voters - giving a total electorate of 39,153.

By an order in Council made last summer the Boundaries Commission is considering how to create between 20 and 40 equal sized constituencies under a revamped single seat electoral system. It cannot take account of race in its deliberations but is allowed to ignore parish boundaries.

Copies of the "Provisional 2000 Census Data", "Boundaries Commission Information Sheets" and "Numbers of Persons Registered to Vote per Constituency (as of January 18, 2002)" are available at Post Offices, The Bermuda National Library and from the Statistics Department.