Electoral Registers 1887-1907
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Scanned copies of Longfield Electoral registers are available for the periods 1887-1892 and 1896-1907 and the table below is a summary of them. In these days only male householders aged over 21 were allowed to vote in the place where they lived. However lodgers whose property was worth more than £10 per year unfurnished and freeholders of land (even if they didn't live in Longfield) were also entitled to vote. I am not entirely sure how ownership worked, for example Elvy Bance bought his land in Essex Road in 1897, built a house there in 1900 but is not listed as a freeholder until 1906 (maybe he had to pay off a mortgage first, before 1926 a mortgage involved conveying the estate to the lender to be reconveyed when it was paid off).
The table includes the name and qualifying address and whether their right to vote was by occupation (residence) or because they were the freehold owner. For space reasons I have excluded the addresses of the freeholders, and the former addresses of occupation voters. In the latter case if someone was previously registered as a voter elsewhere in the constituency they are called "successive" in the register e.g. "Successive - Betsham and Station Road". Most of the addresses given are fairly general, like "Longfield Hill" or "Station Road". Where possible I have added modern house numbers where that information is available by other means.