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On the 31st of January 1924, Victoria ceased maintaining a separate State electoral roll favour of a joint roll produced by the Commonwealth.
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 historical Victorian electoral rolls in the Library in online, microfiche and print formats. Please contact the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) regarding current electoral rolls.
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'.
These can be accessed in the National Library of Australia building.
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"
Proclamation Reinforcements Referendum (Z265) [picture] Melbourne : Government Printer, 1917. 1 of 7 posters ; 101.5 x 63.6 cm. or smaller. Part of Collection of posters on the Reinforcements referendum 1917 [picture]
