Chapter 05: Electoral Registers & Poll Books

5.1 Poll books | 5.2 Electoral Registers

Electoral registers and poll books comprise lists of people entitled to vote in a particular election. Voting qualifications varied according to the date in question. In 1832 the parliamentary borough of St Marylebone was created, which included the parishes of Paddington, St Marylebone and, for a while, St Pancras. In 1983 boundary changes meant that the old Westminster, Paddington and Marylebone constituencies became the constituencies of Westminster North and the City of London and Westminster South.

Family History Information Sheet 14 provides further details on our holdings.

5.1 Poll books

London and Middlesex (Acc 145):

Electors listed in the Bedfordshire poll book 1727

Paddington:

1832

St Margaret and St John (E3081, E3081 A):

1796, 1802

Westminster:

1749 (printed copy and a separate two-volume typescript index of names and trades) 1780, 1818, 1834-1835, 1837, 1841

NB Poll books 1749, 1774-1820 are held at London Metropolitan Archives.

5.2 Electoral Registers

NB Electoral registers 1873-1889 are held at London Metropolitan Archives.

Paddington:

1844-1848, 1850-1851, 1854-1855, 1867-1868, 1902-1915, 1918 (Queen's Park only), 1919-1939, 1945-1983, 1984 onwards as North Westminster, with St Marylebone

St George, Hanover Square:

Manuscript copy only 1939-1941

St Margaret & St John (E3351 / 15-24, 26-36):

1874-1876, 1888, 1889

Register of property owners and proxies (St Margaret only):

1868 (E5093)

St Marylebone:

1844-1848, 1850-1851, 1855, 1905, 1913-1914 (incomplete), 1918-1939, 1945-1983, 1984 onwards as North Westminster, with Paddington

St Pancras:

1844-1848, 1850-1851, 1854-1855

Westminster (not all the early volumes are complete):

1857-1860, 1862-1866, 1883, 1890, 1906-1914, 1919-1939, 1945, 1946-1948, 1949, 1950-1983, 1984 onwards as South Westminster