No they aren't. There is a website (I think subscription only) where you can look at current electoral rolls, but of course people can choose for their details not to be released anyway.
Historic electoral rolls are at the British Library and records offices/local history centres/some libraries. Sometimes they are handsomely bound, sometimes they are crumbling looseleaf papers and sometimes they've been microfilmed.
You could contact the local reference/central library or records office for the area and ask for the years required to find out if they have them or are kept elsewhere.
Anyone looking for an electoral roll in Essex could be lucky. The Essex Record Office have images of the 1918 and 1929 registers online. I've just spent a happy morning looking up the village of Heybridge Basin where I live. Names are listed alphabetically - with address column (though its such a tiny place the address is mostly just "Basin" then columns to show whether they qualify to vote in Parliamentary or District elections, or both and codes to show how they qualify - men usually by Residence or Occupation, women often by their husband's residence
Here at Anguline Research Archives we have an ongoing project to digitise the Wakefield electoral rolls and Burgess registers.
We have already published the 1832-1858, 1864-1879 & 1911-1919 on cd and are working on the 1880-1910 at present.
More will swiftly follow.
Cheers
Guy
Interesting replies, thanks.
Now my local office has re-opened after a re-fit I can get myself down there to have a look.
(after I get a bank loan to pay for parking )
Regards......John
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