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New South Wales Voting Records

Online Resources

New South Wales

• New South Wales Electoral Rolls at Findmypast, index & images ($).
• 1842-1864 New South Wales, Australia Historical Electoral Rolls, 1842-1864 at Ancestry, index, browse, and images($).
• 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy), index, browse, and images($).
• 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy), index, browse, and images($).
• 1841 New South Wales, Australia, Census, index, browse, and images($).
• New South Wales, Australia Historical Electoral Rolls, 1842-1864, index, browse, and images($).
• 1891 New South Wales, Australia Census, index, browse, and images($).
• 1901 New South Wales, Australia Census, index, browse, and images($).

Australia

• 1903-1980 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 at Ancestry($), index.
• 1893-1949 Australia Electoral Rolls, 1893-1949 at MyHeritage($), index

Voting Registers or Electoral Rolls

Voting registers, or electoral rolls, are a census of those who were eligible to vote. They are valuable because a country-wide census wasn't taken until 1911. Early electoral rolls give an individual’s name, residence, status of property occupation/ownership, and the nature of the rateable property.

Voting rights were tied to property ownership; therefore, all men were not eligible to vote in the early years. Full adult male suffrage was not granted in most colonies until the 1850s and later. Women’s suffrage was not granted in the states until around 1900. Non-British subjects, unless naturalized, were not granted suffrage until the 1940s. Aboriginal suffrage was not granted until 1949.

For Further Reading

FamilySearch Library

Additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Australia, New South Wales - Voting registers