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Tasmania Voting Records

Online Records

• Tasmania Voting Registers at FamilySearch.
• Tasmanian Electoral Rolls
• New South Wales Electoral Rolls at Findmypast, index & images ($).
• 1903-1980 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($).
• 1916 Tasmania, Australia, Electoral Rolls 1916 at MyHeritage ($), index.

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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.

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For Further Reading

FamilySearch Library

Additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Australia, Tasmania - Voting registers