Electoral Roll

[modeste]

Can you still access the above at your local library?

All online searches want my card details!

[THECORBYLOON]

They might well do but you can contact your local Electoral Registration Office and they can tell you if it does.

You can enter your postcode on this page to get the contact details if you're in Great Britain,

https://www.gov.uk/contact-electoral-registration-office

 

this if you're in Ulster

http://www.eoni.org.uk/Utility/Contact-Us

[barry1010]

My local library doesn't have it but the central library does.  It used to be available at police stations, too.  

[barry1010]

The sites that charge you have paid a lot of money for the open register which these days is fairly useless because so many have opted out of it.  

[davebro3]

I looked at it at the council offices.

[Buenchico]

Despite what's been said above, I doubt that you'll find the electoral register in many (any?) libraries these days.  That's because the data protection rules are now so strict. 

To view the 'open register' (which doesn't include people who've opted out, in order to prevent their details appearing on mailing lists), it's necessary to make an appointment at your local council office.  You'll be given unsupervised access to the register but only be permitted to make handwritten notes.  (You can't, for example, use your mobile phone to photograph it or to enter details into an app).

However many (possibly most?) people now opt out of inclusion in the open register, with their details only being included on the 'full register'.

To view the full register you again need to make an appointment but your access to the register will be supervised and only granted after you've signed a declaration stating why you need the information and what you'll do with it. You won't be allowed to copy the register, nor to make any form of notes from it (either electronic or handwritten).

This is from our local authority's website but the rules are the same across the country:
https://midsuffolk.gov.uk/web/mid-suffolk/w/the-electoral-register

Returning to whether or not your local library will have a copy of the register, some libraries might have a corporate subscription to 192.com, allowing you to consult the open register in the library but there will definitely be no access to the full register at a library.