Montana Voting Records online consist of voter registration lists. Indexed collections will be the easiest to search; image-only collections will contain the most information.

In the United States voting rights have always come with limitations. In the 1700s and early 1800s, voting rights were restricted primarily to white men who owned property and some states restricted voting rights even further.

During the 1800s voting rights restrictions were gradually reduced and voters didn’t need to own property and, after 1870, race was not a qualification to vote but some states still restricted voting through poll taxes (a tax paid to vote which affected the less affluent), literacy tests, all-white primaries, and language requirements.

The 1900s saw the greatest expansion of voting rights including:

• rights were extended to women (1920)

• the Voting Rights Acts to prevent additional prohibitive voting laws (1965)

• poll taxes were banned in the U.S. by the Supreme Court (1966) 

• the right to vote for anyone 18 years old or older (1971)

• protection for language minorities (1975)

• protection for people with disabilities (1982)

• and simplified voter registration (1993).

Voting records may include:

• name

• physical description of person

• age

• gender

• registration date

• dates voted

• residence

• marital status

• property ownership

• occupation

• place of birth

• citizenship status, if naturalized, date, court

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Montana Voting Records online

Montana – Poll lists for the election of October 24, 1864 (to establish Montana as a Territory), at FS

Beaverhead County – Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862-2009, index & images (land, birth, death, voters), at FS

Beaverhead County – Voting Registers – Montana, Beaverhead County, Register of Electors, 1911-1944, at FS

Butte – Voting Registers – Voter Records 1890-1914, Butte, Montana, at FS

Cascade County – Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009, index & images (birth, marriage, death, probate, voters, naturalization, court, land), at FS

Cascade County – Voting Registers – Montana, Cascade County, Voter Registration Cards, Ca. 1937-1992, at FS

Chouteau County – Voting Registers – Lewis and Clark County, Montana, Election Register, 1882-1915, at FS

Chouteau County – Voting Registers – Montana, Chouteau County Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1876-2011, at FS

Chouteau County – Voting Registers – Montana, Chouteau County, Voter Registers, at FS

Deer Lodge County – Voting Registers – Lewis and Clark County, Montana, Election Register, 1882-1915, at FS

Gallatin County – Voting Registers – 1889-1890 Official Register of Electors, Gallatin County, Montana, at FS

Gallatin County – Voting Registers – Montana, Gallatin County, Voting Records, 1889-1910, at FS

Great Falls – Voting Registers – Montana, Cascade County, Great Falls, Voter Registers, 1889-1931, at FS

Jefferson County – Voting Registers – Montana, Jefferson County, Voter Registers, 1889-1924, at FS

Lewis and Clark County – Voting Registers – Lewis and Clark County, Montana, Election Register, 1882-1915, at FS

Madison County – Voting Registers – Lewis and Clark County, Montana, Election Register, 1882-1915, at FS

Madison County – Voting Registers – Montana, Madison County, Voter Registers, 1889, at FS

Richland County – Voting Registers – Lewis and Clark County, Montana, Election Register, 1882-1915, at FS

Rosebud County – Montana, Rosebud County Records, 1878-2011, index & images (land, wills & probate, birth, death, marriage, voters), at FS

Rosebud County – Voting Registers – Montana, Rosebud County, Official Register of Electors, at FS

Sanders County – Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010, index & images (cemetery, land, naturalization, wills & probate, birth, marriage, death, voters), at FS

Sheridan County – Voting Registers – Montana, Sheridan County, Voter Registers, 1917-1924, at FS

Thompson Falls – Voting Registers – Montana, Sanders County, Thompson Falls Voter Index, 1911-1919, at FS