The following table provides a breakdown by constituency of how many people were turned away from the polling station for not producing the correct photographic identification at the Assembly elections held on 7 March. It also provides a further breakdown of the types of invalid identification which were produced.
The total number of people turned away at polling stations for having the incorrect identification was 4,161 out of a total of 700,699 who turned up to vote (0.6 per cent.). It is not known whether these people returned with the correct identification. This compares with the 3,493 out of 702,249 people turned away for the same reason for the 2003 Assembly election.
Constituency No documents Out of date Driving Licence Out of date Passport Out of date Smart Pass Works pass Allowance book Medical card Student I.D Foreign I.D Other1 Totals Belfast West 25 47 84 20 24 7 10 29 — 22 268 Belfast East 31 43 35 16 6 1 5 2 3 13 155 Belfast North 42 33 48 17 8 — 6 10 2 30 196 Belfast South 33 49 33 12 9 — 3 3 7 29 178 Strangford 25 57 30 7 5 — 1 3 — 28 156 North Down 23 35 16 2 1 1 4 1 — 27 110 North Antrim 42 103 38 11 5 — 8 2 1 50 260 Mid Ulster 21 143 28 8 12 1 4 11 4 63 295 Upper Bann 23 87 53 22 10 3 9 5 11 48 271 Newry and Armagh 54 162 82 24 9 1 9 4 6 62 413 Lagan Valley 29 70 33 21 9 — 3 7 6 23 201 South Down 53 128 34 12 13 1 8 2 — 22 273 Foyle 25 82 64 16 14 — 3 4 1 25 234 East Londonderry 26 61 30 21 13 1 4 2 — 39 197 West Tyrone 31 52 48 30 11 — 7 7 2 39 227 Fermanagh and S. Tyrone 40 185 49 16 9 1 8 8 16 55 387 East Antrim 21 52 17 18 6 — 2 5 2 31 154 South Antrim 30 67 28 20 8 1 3 1 3 25 186 Totals 574 1456 750 293 172 18 97 106 64 631 4161 1 Includes store cards, photocopied documents, HMCR documents etc.