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Diss : Electoral Register
Surname: WARD

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Electoral Registers have been a legal requirement since 1832, listing everyone who was eligible to vote in national and local elections. They record the names of people who registered to vote. However, just as today, not everyone who was eligible to vote registered.
The lists created annually were of people who were eligible to vote and include their reason for eligibility, such as their residence or ownership of a property. Until 1918, the right to vote was closely linked to property ownership. The details in the registers may vary slightly, but in most you will find a combination of the following information; name, address or abode, nature of qualification or a description of property, name and description and residence of landlord or other person to whom rent is paid, and occasionally occupation or age.
They are arranged by electoral division, polling district and then alphabetically, either by street or by voter, and they were published for national elections from 1832 onwards. No registers were compiled at all between 1916-17 and 1940-44. There are separate volumes for each electoral division per year or half year and the period during which each register was effective varied.
The format of each register can vary depending on the constituency or the year of the register, The normal arrangement is in address order; ie: within the register for each polling district, streets are listed in alphabetical order and properties within them are listed in sequence which is not always the same as in numerical order. Remote rural areas are not susceptible to a street arrangement of the registers and in such cases voters are normally listed in alphabetical order of surname within the smallest unit of local administration - parish, community or townland.
Over time electoral divisions changed boundaries. Norfolk was divided into different electoral division arrangements; in 1845 just two areas, East and West; other changes in 1869, 1886, 1918, 1949, and 1971; from 1974 onwards, 7 divisions, North Norfolk, Breckland, Broadland, South Norfolk, Great Yarmouth Borough, King's Lynn West Norfolk Borough and Norwich City.
Further information:

Records found = 12 from 124353
ID	Name	Year	Home Parish	View
	Qualification
15573	WARD Archibald Manning	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Victoria Road
15574	WARD Edward	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Walcot Road
15866	WARD Emily	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: House (joint); Place: Denmark Street
15575	WARD Fred	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Victoria Road
13383	WARD Henry	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: Freehold house and land; place: Denmark Street
15576	WARD Henry Albert	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house (successive); Place: Chapel Street and Denmark Street
13384	WARD John	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: Freehold houses and land; place: Denmark Street
15867	WARD Lucy Elizabeth	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: House (joint); Place: Denmark Street
15868	WARD Lydia	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: House (successive); Place: Shelfanger Road and Mount Street Road
13385	WARD William	1873	Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire	-
	Living in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; qualification: Freehold and copyhold house and lands; place: Blackthorn Farm
13451	WARD William	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: £12 rated occupier, House and Land; place: St. Nicholas Street
15577	WARD William	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Chapel Street
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