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Electoral Rolls: Access to other State's Electoral Rolls

Australian Electoral Rolls (Commonwealth) all States and Territories

Access to other State's Electoral Rolls

Electoral Rolls from other States & Territories are held at the State Library in various formats. In addition to the resources listed below, the Library's edition of Ancestry includes Australian electoral rolls for all states and territories. Find My Past provides similar information. See the box below.

State

Date

Title

Format

Location

ACT

1937- (incomplete)

Australian Capital Territory electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

ACT

1988, 1991-

Electoral roll ACT

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

NSW

1958- (incomplete)

State of New South Wales electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

NSW

1988, 1991-2008

Electoral roll NSW

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

 NSW

2009

Electoral roll NSW

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

NT

1931- (incomplete)

Northern Territory electoral roll

Paper By electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

NT

1991-2008

Electoral roll NT

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

 NT

 2009

Electoral roll NT

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

QLD

1958- (incomplete)

State of Queensland electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

QLD

1991-2008

Electoral roll QLD

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

QLD

2009

Electoral roll QLD

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

TAS

1960- (incomplete)

State of Tasmania electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

TAS

1991-2008

Electoral roll TAS

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

TAS 

2009 

Electoral roll TAS

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

VIC

1849

Port Phillip District electoral roll, 1849

Paper 

Government Publications

shelving

VIC

1851

Electoral roll 1851 Melbourne and surrounds*

Microfiche. VIC/ER/1*

Microfiche cabinets*

VIC

1856-57

Victoria. Electoral roll, list of voters etc *

Microfiche. VIC/ER/2*

Microfiche cabinets*

VIC

1959- (incomplete)

State of Victoria Electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

VIC

1991-2008

Electoral roll VIC

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

VIC

2009 

Electoral roll of VIC

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

WA

1958- (incomplete)

State of Western Australia electoral roll

Paper Arranged by electoral district.

Government Publications

shelving

WA

1991-2008

Electoral roll WA

Microfiche Alphabetical by family name

Family History microfiche

cabinets

WA 

2009

Electoral roll WA

Paper Arranged by electoral district

Government Publications

shelving

                             

* In Victoria microfiche sequence NOT in the Victoria Electoral Roll microfiche sequence

Family History databases

Ancestry (Library edition) and Find my Past databases have various Electoral Roll records and are available on State Library computers.

Latest list of Electoral Rolls available from Ancestry Library edition (as of Aug 2018)

Australian Capital Territory: 1928, 1929-31*, 1935, 1937, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

New South Wales: 1903-04*, 1913*, 1930, 1931-32*, 1933, 1934-35*, 1936-37, 1943, 1949, 1953-54, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

Northern Territory: 1922, 1928*, 1929, 1930-31*, 1934, 1937, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

Queensland: 1903, 1905, 1906*, 1908, 1909-10*, 1912*, 1913, 1914-17*, 1919, 1921, 1922*, 1925, 1926*, 1928-29*, 1930, 1931-32*, 1934*, 1936-37, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

South Australia: 1939*, 1941*, 1943-51*

Tasmania: 1914, 1915-17*, 1919, 1921*, 1922, 1925*, 1928, 1929-31*, 1934* 1936-37, 1943-44, 1949, 1954, 1958*, 1963*, 1968*, 1972*, 1977*, 1980*

Victoria: 1856, 1903, 1905-06*, 1908*, 1909, 1910*, 1912-13*, 1914, 1915-18*, 1919, 1920-22*, 1924, 1925-28*, 1931, 1932-35*, 1936-37, 1942-43, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1967*, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

Western Australia: 1903, 1905*, 1906, 1909*, 1910-11, 1912-15*, 1916, 1917-22*, 1925, 1926*, 1928-30*, 1931, 1934*, 1936-37, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1980

Those years marked by asterisk, the records were extracted using a new OCR indexing method. They were not transcribed. All other years have been transcribed.