Not Entitled To Vote

[McKelvieClan]

An E next to an ancestor in the Register of Electors in 1926 means not eligible to vote.  What would be the reasons for this? Thanks

[KGarrad]

Male or female?
Age?

Not everyone over 21 was entitled to vote until 1928.
(Representation Of The People Act 1928.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_(Equal_Franchise)_Act_1928

[McKelvieClan]

Female.

Why list if they can’t vote?

[KGarrad]

Depending on where they lived, they may have been entitled to vote in local elections, but not Parliamentary elections?

Local as in Borough elections.

[stanmapstone]

E     Not entitled to vote in local or parliamentary elections
See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=800159.msg6583845#msg6583845
Stan

[stanmapstone]

As that was the 1926 register it came under the rules of the 1918 Representation of the People Act which gave the vote to men at 21 and women at 30, that right being dependent on six months' residence or occupation of business premises. The 1928 Act gave the vote to all adults at the age of 21. See Section 4 of the 1918 Representation of the People Act http://www.rootschat.com/links/01k6n/
I don't know what the procedure was for being entered on the electoral roll, but obviously she did not meet the Act's requirements.
Stan

[McKelvieClan]

What were the Acts requirements?

[McKelvieClan]

Posts must have crossed I understand now why she could not vote. Thank you

[stanmapstone]

I don't know what the procedure was for being entered on the electoral roll, but obviously she did not meet the Act's requirements.
Stan

The London Gazette 15th March 1918, page 3308 and following, has the Forms of Information to be required from Householders, Occupiers, Owners, Agents, &c. under the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30579/page/3308

Stan