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Greece Election Lists

Definition and Time Coverage

In1844, a the Greek Constitution was passed and elections were held to create the first parliament. Registers were kept of names and ages of men over the age of 25, who were eligible to vote. Three collections of Electoral Registers are found online at the Greek National Archives (GAK or GSA).

• • Election Collection John Vlachogianni (1864-1925)
  • Archive Hellenic Parliament (1844-1893, 1915)
  • Ladas Collection Election Collection George Lada (1843-1873)

Information Useful for Genealogy

The lists are organized by locality, so it that sense they serve a census function. The list men in the locality over age 25their age. Some give the name of the voter's father and the occupation of the voter. This tutorial discusses the differences in the content of the three collections.

How to Access the Records

Georgia Stryker Keilman, founder of the website, Hellenic Genealogy Geek and its companion Facebook page, has been translating the Vlachogiannis collection into English. Her monumental work is ongoing, and the translations can be accessed on her website by clicking on the following links for the Index to Greece Historic Election List Archives: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

This is an example from the Vlachogiannis collection, File 25:

1872 Election List, Sparta Vlachogiannis collection (Image 25_393)

This is an example from the Parliament collection, File 26:

1844 Election List, Parliament Collection,, Oinountos (Image 26_421)

This is an example from the Ladas collection, File 22:

1843-44 Election List, Sparta, Ladas Collection, (Image 53)

Accessing information on the GAK website is not intuitive, and can be rather challenging. I have written step-by-step instructions in a pdf file, which can be downloaded here.

Remember also, that help is available from the HellenicGenealogyGeek Facebook page. Our 12,456 members are supportive and helpful, and are happy to answer questions.

We can hope that in the future, more digitized records will be forthcoming. For now, we must work with what we have!