Absent Voting: Northern Ireland
(asked on 7th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many registered voters applied for proxy votes in each local government district in Northern Ireland elections on 2 May; and what percentage of the (1) total electorate, and (2) votes cast, that represents in each of those districts.
The information below has been provided by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland. The table shows how many proxy votes were applied for in each local government district for the local elections in Northern Ireland on 2 May and what this represents as a percentage of (a) the total electorate and (b) the votes polled in each of those districts.
Local Council | Total Proxy | Eligible Electorate* | % Eligible Electorate | Total Votes Polled* | % Votes Polled |
Antrim and Newtownabbey | 205 | 98,899 | 0.21% | 48,526 | 0.42% |
Ards and North Down | 150 | 116,536 | 0.13% | 50,866 | 0.29% |
Armagh Banbridge and Craigavon | 414 | 147,977 | 0.28% | 79,309 | 0.52% |
Belfast | 1533 | 224,628 | 0.68% | 114,664 | 1.34% |
Causeway Coast and Glens | 575 | 98,930 | 0.58% | 51,212 | 1.12% |
Derry and Strabane | 1174 | 107,975 | 1.09% | 61,798 | 1.90% |
Fermanagh and Omagh | 1601 | 84,313 | 1.90% | 52,620 | 3.04% |
Lisburn and Castlereagh | 127 | 102,151 | 0.12% | 50,747 | 0.25% |
Mid and East Antrim | 227 | 98,410 | 0.23% | 47,383 | 0.48% |
Mid Ulster | 1090 | 100,238 | 1.09% | 60,180 | 1.81% |
Newry Mourne and Down | 986 | 125,496 | 0.79% | 70,428 | 1.40% |
Totals | 8082 | 1,305,553 | - | 687,733 | - |