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→Absent Voters Lists(UK): 1918- c 1923, a few later
[https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/subjects%20images/government%20publications/pdfs/parliamentaryconstituencies.pdf Parliamentary Constituencies And Their Registers Since 1832] British Library</ref>).
There is also a stand alone "Kent, Bromley Absent Voters List 1918". In July 2016 an associated dataset
"Britain, Absent Voters Lists 1918-1921 Browse" was introduced to enable browsing through the records. Additionally there appear to be some Absent Voters Lists within the findmypast database “England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932” (located in Census, Land & Surveys/Electoral Rolls) as a researcher here found a 1931 AVL record which showed a soldier’s unit and number.<ref>AdrianB38. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171117165948/http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic14849.html Absent Voters List for 1931] ''Who Do You Think You Are? Forum'' 28 April 2017, now archived.</ref> 2018/09/14 a separate database "England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1920-1932" was introduced, expanded to "1910-1932" (from 2021/09/24) stated by findmypast able to be searched with greater accuracy.
In November 2017, Ancestry introduced a database "UK, Absent Voter Lists, 1918-1925, 1939"<ref> [https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61320 UK, Absent Voter Lists, 1918-1925, 1939] Ancestry</ref> located in Census & Electoral Rolls, and also in Military/Soldier, Veteran & Prisoner Rolls & Lists, the source being “Absent Voter Lists taken from various Electoral Register collections”, but otherwise unspecified. To see the coverage, look under “Browse this collection” on the Ancestry webpage for the collection. Includes some areas of England and Scotland. It is believed the London records are from the London Metropolitan Archives. There is an additional Ancestry database “Midlands, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1955” (located in Census & Electoral Rolls) which specifically includes AVLs (Birmingham and some of north Warwickshire). Other Electoral Registers, details of which may be found by entering the keyword electoral in the Card Catalogue Search, (accessible from the Search tab at the top of Ancestry webpages) perhaps may also contain unspecified AVLs.
