Oregon 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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Oregon Voting Records online

County level

Clatsop County – Voting Registers – Official Register of Electors for Astoria City and Clatsop County, Oregon, at FS

Columbia County – Voting Registers – Voter Registrations, 1900-1914, at FS

Columbia County – Voting Registers – Tax Lists, Election Records, and Census, 1854-1900 (Columbia County, Oregon), at FS

Curry County – Voting Registers – [Election Voter Register], Curry County, Oregon, at FS

Douglas County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Douglas County, Voter Records, 1900-1914, at FS

Douglas County – Oregon, Douglas County Records, 1850-1983 (marriage, land, birth, death, voter, probate, wills, tax, pensions, naturalization, medical, court)

Lincoln County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Lincoln County Voter Registration Index Cards : COLLECTION RECORD, 1913-1942, at FS

Lincoln County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Lincoln County, Voting Registers, 1900-1942, at FS

Multnomah County – Voting Registers – Election Voter Register (Multnomah County, Oregon), 1889-1900, at FS

Multnomah County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Multnomah County, Voting Registration Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1908-1958, at FS

Multnomah County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Multnomah County, Voting Registration Records, 1908-1958, at FS

Sherman County – Voting Registers – Oregon, Sherman County, Elector Records, 1902-1904, at FS

Tillamook County – Voting Registers – Official Register of Electors, Tillamook County, Oregon, 1904-1914, at FS

Union County – Voting Registers – Voting Registers, at FS

Wallowa County – Voting Registers – Election Voter Register, Wallowa County, Oregon, 1902, 1906, 1914, at FS

Wheeler County – Voting Registers – Election Voter Registers, Wheeler County, Oregon, 1900-1912, at FS

City level

Astoria – Voting Registers – Official Register of Electors for Astoria City and Clatsop County, Oregon, at FS

Oregon – Oregon, Multnomah County, Voting Registration Records, 1908-1958, index links to images

Westport – Voting Registers – Washington, Wahkiakum County, Puget Island Precinct, Voting Records, 1916-1918, at FS