Re: Liverpool Records Office & Electoral Rolls

The 1918 Act, recognising the part which men and women had played in the First World War, abolished the property qualifications and gave the vote to men at 21 and women at 30, that right being dependent on six months' residence or occupation of business premises worth Ł 10 a year.
The women had to be householders or the wives of householders or to have been to university. Men with qualifications in more than one constituency had, since 1832, been able to vote in each, but in 1918 this right was limited to two constituencies: that of their place of residence or business and/or that in which they had graduated.

Don Aitken...

The statement that the vote was given to women who had been to
university is a little too simple. the Act says that:

"A woman shall be entitled to be registered as a parliamentary elector
for a university constituency if she has attained the age of thirty
years and either would be entitled to be so registered if she were a
man, or has been admitted to and passed the final examination, and
kept under the conditions required of women by the university the
period of residence, necessary for a man to obtain a degree at any
university forming, or forming part of, a university constituency
which did not at the time the examination was passed admit women to
degrees".

Note that the vote was given *in the univessity constituency* only.
Women graduate were not entitled to vote in the ordinary constituency
where thy lived, and would not appear on its electoral register,
unless qualified in some other way.

myths...

Is there an online source stating this limitation - I can only find a
single page from the Act (which deals with qualifications for women

The restriction to 2 doesn't "fit" a family tale, which depends on
there being three possibilities - residence, business, university.
(The tale could be wrong.)

Regards Stan Mapstone