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Table 2: Number of people registered to vote in local government elections in each district in Northern Ireland as a proportion of the resident population aged 18, 1998 to 2007( 1)
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Antrim	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
Ards	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Armagh	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9
Ballymena	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Ballymoney	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Banbridge	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Belfast	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.8
Carrickfergus	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Castlereagh	1,0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Coleraine	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Cookstown	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Craigavon	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Derry	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Down	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Dungannon	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Fermanagh	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9
Lame	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9
Limavady	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Lisburn	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Magherafelt	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Moyle	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Newry and Mourne	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Newtownabbey	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
North Down	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Omagh	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Strabane	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
(1) The proportions have been calculated using the mid-year population estimates for local authorities in Northern Ireland of those age 18 and above, and the number of people registered to vote in local government elections on 1 December. Source: Electoral Office for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

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