Official List of Registered Voters, Towns of Erie County, 1926–1971

This collection was preserved and made accessible online through the NYG&B's Digitize New York initiative.

Collection Category: Directories, Digitize New York|Collection Type: OCR|Location: Erie County

This collection contains published voter registers for the cities and towns of Erie County between 1926 and 1971, with gaps across various years. The City of Buffalo is largely excluded from these volumes as it maintained separate voter registers, however, Buffalo is included in the 1969 and 1971 registers.

Registers include voters’ names and addresses. The inclusion of voters' addresses is especially valuable, since Erie County localities were not represented in directories until the 1950s or later. Some rural and county directories were published periodically. The Grosvenor Room, the Special Collections Department of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, holds the physical registers. The Library does not carry the following registers, which are therefore not included in the digitized records: 1927, 1928, 1934, 1955, 1962-1968, 1970.

The registers usually list incorporated cities first, followed by other localities. The typical arrangement is:

City name, alphabetical
- Ward number
  - Election district number
    - Street name
      - House number
        
        Names, alphabetically
Town name, alphabetical
- Election district number
  - Street name
    - House number
      - Names, alphabetically

Note: If there is no house number, then listings are alphabetical by name.

From 1926 through 1956, registers appear uniform with locality names, wards, and election districts printed prominently at the top of each page. Beginning in 1957, the page formatting differs from earlier volumes. The arrangement of localities is the same, but the localities, wards, and election districts are not at the top of each page. Instead, they are in the table of voter data.

While the volumes are fully searchable, the waypoint links below may be used to browse each volume in full.

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