New South Wales Voting Registers

New South Wales

 * New South Wales Electoral Rolls at FindMyPast, index and images, ($).
 * 1842-1864 - New South Wales, Australia Historical Electoral Rolls, 1842-1864, index, browse, and images, ($).

Australia
- 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.
 * 1903-1980 - Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980, ($), index.
 * 1893-1949 - Australia Electoral Rolls, 1893-1949, ($), index

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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