What is the register of voters?

What is the register of voters?

The register of voters is a list of all of those people who are resident in a particular address at a particular date. The electoral register is valid for a full year, and then a new one is compiled. The earliest registers of voters in this country started in the late 17th century. Those relate to people who were qualified by the property of ownership that they had if they were, fortunately, fee-holders. It's really only up in the 1830's that the franchise was widened to include more people. It's really at the end of the 19th century when effectively nearly every adult male over the age of 21 was qualified to vote. And, from 1928, every female over the age of 21, as well.