Victoria ceased maintaining a separate State electoral roll on the 31st of January 1924, after which a joint electoral roll arrangement was entered into with the Commonwealth (as notified in the Commonwealth Gazette).
You can access the NSW electoral rolls in the Library in online, microfiche and print formats.
You can access the Victorian electoral rolls in the Library in online, microfiche and print formats.
Electoral rolls online
Online access to Victorian electoral rolls is provided through two eResources:
- Ancestry (Library Edition) (1856, 1903-1980) - Visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Ancestry'.
- FindMyPast (1939 & 1946 only) - Visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Find my past'.
Electoral rolls on microfiche/film
Victorian electoral rolls on microfiche are available from 1841-1851 in the general electoral rolls microfiche cabinet:
1841-1851
1851, 1856-57
1899 (Federal Referendum roll)
1903, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909
1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919
1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1989
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Electoral rolls in print
The Library holds many of the original printed Victorian electoral rolls which are bound according to year and electoral division. These are not held on open access but must be requested for use via the Library's catalogue. All but the latest year held (2009) are stored offsite at the Library's Hume warehouse. As the rolls are also available on microfiche on open access in the Newspapers and Family History zone it is recommended that these rolls be accessed instead of the print.
You can locate entries for the Victorian electoral rolls in the Library's catalogue using the following exact terms, including quotation marks, in a search:
"voting registers - victoria - periodicals"