Electoral registers 1918-1948
- Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
- Date: 1918-1948
- Level: Section
- Description: These electoral registers were compiled and kept by the Clerk to Staffordshire County Council, and properly they form part of the County Council Collection. The registers are bound volumes.
There are usually two or more volumes per year for the years immediately following the two World Wars. After WWI, there is a spring and autumn listing. There are no "absent voters lists" but there are codings indicating military and naval personnel in the main lists. After WWII there may be separate volumes for military lists, or for business premises.
Registers for Stoke on Trent are held at Stoke on Trent City Archives. They have been digitised for the years 1918-1939.
There are no registers at Staffordshire Record Office for some West Midlands constituencies for this period, except for the Brierley Hill constituency. Some are known not to have survived, possibly due to paper salvage during WWII. covering Wolverhampton and Dudley. There are also no known copies of the registers for Newcastle-under-Lyme for this period except for one volume for 1933.
Boundary changes took place in 1948. - Access Conditions: Available at Staffordshire Record Office. For the purposes of ordering, the reference Electoral register, or EReg, is used for all registers.
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