Virginia 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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Virginia Voting Records online

State level

Virginia – Virginia Voter Registration, 1902-1970, index, at FS

County level

Accomack County – Voting Registers – Congressional Poll for 1815, at FS

Accomack County – Voting Registers – Presidential Election Ballots, 1836-1860, at FS

Arlington County – Voting Registers – Poll Books and Other Materials, 1902-1948, 1958, at FS

Arlington County – Voting Registers – Voting Applications for Clarendon Precinct, 1942-1948, at FS

Bath County – Voting Registers – Virginia, Bath County Voter Lists, 1791-1821, at FS

Isle of Wight County – Voting Registers – Virginia, Isle of Wight, Register of Free Negro Certification, 1785-1870, at FS

Isle of Wight County – Voting Registers – Virginia, Isle of Wight, Voting Records, 1900-1951, at FS

Loudoun County – Voting Registers – Poll Book, V. A, 1801-1821, at FS

Mathews County – Voting Registers – Roll of Voters Registered … in Mathews County, Virginia, 1902-1903, at FS

Mecklenburg County – Voting Registers – List of Colored Voters Registered at Pearsons Store Precinct in Palmers Springs Magisterial District, Mecklenburg Co., Va, at FS

Nelson County – Voting Registers – Voters Records, 1902-1927, at FS

Northumberland County – Voting Registers – Commissioners of Election Record, 1865, at FS

Northumberland County – Voting Registers – Election Records : Lists of Voters and Polls, 1796, 1839-1899, at FS

Northumberland County – Voting Registers – Road and Bridge Papers : Road Papers, 1850-1892, at FS

Orange County – Voting Registers – A Separate Precinct at Gordonsville in 1st District, Oct. 22, 1860, at FS

Prince Edward County – Voting Registers – Miscellaneous Papers, Prince Edward County, Virginia, at FS

Prince William County – Voting Registers – General Index to Deeds, 1732-1887; Deeds, 1731-1869; Election Poll, 1840, at FS

Richmond County – Voting Registers – Order Books, 1692-1871, at FS

Southampton County – Voting Registers – Poll Books, 1777-1877, at FS

Surry County – Voting Registers – Virginia, Surry County, Voter Records, 1783-1970, at FS

Westmoreland County – Voting Registers – Mixed Deeds, Wills, Court Orders, and Poll Lists, 1653-1859, at FS

City level

Alexandria (Independent City) – Voting Registers – Bankruptcy Proceedings, 1802-1821, and Poll Lists, 1850-1852, at FS

Lovingston – Voting Registers – Voters Records, 1902-1927, at FS

Palmer Springs – Voting Registers – List of Colored Voters Registered at Pearsons Store Precinct in Palmers Springs Magisterial District, Mecklenburg Co., Va, at FS

Petersburg (Independent City) – Voting Registers – Voter Registration, 1903, at FS

Shipman – Voting Registers – Voters Records, 1902-1927, at FS

Virginia Beach (Independent City) – Voting Registers – General Index to Deeds, 1691-1880; Mixed Land, Probate, and Election Poll Records, 1691-1865, at FS