Electoral rolls

[jessienicolson]

If a man born 1887 and was living in Menzies Road, Aberdeen, with his parents in 1905/1906 would he be on the electoral roll.  Thanks

[ev]

The Representation of the People Act 1969[25] lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, with effect from 1970 and remained in force until the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013[26] which allowed 16 year olds to vote for the first time, but only in Scotland and only in that particular referendum. The Scottish Parliament reduced the voting age to 16 for its own and Scottish local elections in 2015.[27]

Men in military service who turned 19 during the first world war were entitled to vote in 1918 irrespective of their age as part of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which also allowed some women over the age of 30 to vote. The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928[28] brought the voting age for women down to 21.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age

Looks like the voting age for men at that time was 21.



ev

[KGarrad]

In the United Kingdom, the Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3, also known informally as the Third Reform Act) and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in Britain after the Derby Government's Reform Act 1867.

The Act extended the 1867 concessions from the boroughs to the countryside. All men paying an annual rental of £10 and all those holding land valued at £10 now had the vote.

So it would seem unlikely that the son would have a vote; although his father may have.
And, if he wasn't entitled to vote then he won't appear on an Electoral Roll.

[jessienicolson]

Thank you.