Elections: Proof of Identity Lady Hermon To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of people turned away from polling stations in each constituency in Northern Ireland on 7 March for not having the correct identification. Mr. Hanson 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|Constituency |No documents|Out of date Driving Licence|Out of date Passport|Out of date Smart Pass|Works pass|Allowance book|Medical card|Student I.D|Foreign I.D|Other1|Totals|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.| | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------