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Women's suffrage has been granted at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain classes or races were still unable to vote, while some granted it to both sexes at the same time.
The timeline below lists years when women's suffrage was enacted in various places. In many cases the first voting took place in a subsequent year.
New Zealand in 1893 is often said to be the first "country" in the world to give women the right to vote. A contestant for being the first independent nation to grant women the right to vote would be Sweden, where conditional female suffrage were granted during the age of liberty (1718-1771), although this right was restricted and did not apply to women in general [1].
Disclaimer: This timeline reflects a vast amount of information from the women's suffrage movement throughout the globe. In many cases, countries passed various laws which progressively gave women the right to vote. Many countries may appear on the list more than once due to the fact that restrictions on suffrage were only lifted slowly. This list only states the right to vote; for other rights, see Timeline of women's rights (other than voting).
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Corsica (rescinded upon annexation by France in 1769)[citation needed]
New Jersey (rescinded in 1807)
South Australia (Only property-owning women for local elections, universal franchise in 1894)
Sweden (only in local elections, votes graded after taxation, universal franchise in 1918, which went into effect at the 1921 elections)
Women in Victoria, Australia were unintentionally enfranchised by the Electoral Act (1863), and proceeded to vote in the following year's elections. The Act was amended in 1865 to correct the error.[2]
United Kingdom (only in local elections, universal franchise in 1928)
States and territories of the USA, progressively, starting with the Wyoming Territory in 1869 and the Utah Territory in 1870, though the latter was repealed by the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887. Wyoming acquired statehood in 1890 (Utah in 1896), allowing women to cast votes in federal elections. The United States as a whole acquired women's suffrage in 1920 (see below) through the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; voting qualifications in the U.S., even in federal elections, are set by the states, and this amendment prohibited states from discriminating on the basis of sex.
Isle of Man (only property-owners until 1913, universal franchise in 1919.)
Franceville grants universal suffrage.[4] Loses self-rule within months.
New Zealand September 19 (including Maori women; although women were barred from standing for election until 1919)
Cook Islands South Australia grants universal suffrage, extending the franchise to all women (property-owners could vote in local elections from 1861), the first in Australia to do so. Women are also granted the right to stand for parliament, making South Australia the first in the world to do so. United Kingdom extends right to vote in local elections to married women.
Commonwealth of Australia (The Australian Constitution gave the federal franchise to all persons allowed to vote for the lower house in each state unless the Commonwealth Parliament stipulated otherwise. Thus, South Australian and Western Australian women could vote in the first federal election in 1901. During the first Parliament, the Commonwealth passed legislation extending federal franchise to non-Aboriginal women in all states.)
New South Wales
Finland First country to give both the right to vote and stand for elections. First country to give both rights to all women regardless of wealth, race or social class.[citation needed]
New Hebrides Perhaps inspired by the Franceville experiment, the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides granted women the right to vote in municipal elections and to serve on elected municipal councils. (These rights applied only to British, French, and other colonists, not to indigenous islanders.)[5]
Canada (Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan only, others later on)
Azerbaijan
Austria Canada on federal level (last province to enact women's suffrage was Quebec in 1940)
Estonia
Germany
Latvia
Poland (Poland regained sovereignty in 1918. It had collapsed in 1795, and was occupied for interim 123 years.)
Russian SFSR United Kingdom (see Representation of the People Act 1918: women above the age of 30, compared to 21 for men and 19 for those who had fought in World War One. Various property qualifications remained.)
Armenia
Belarus[citation needed]
Belgium (only at municipal level)
Georgia
Hungary (full suffrage granted in 1945)
Luxembourg
Netherlands (right to stand in election granted in 1917) New Zealand (along with voting rights, women now allowed to stand for election into parliament)
Ukraine
Albania
Czechoslovakia
United States (all remaining states)
Irish Free State - now known as the Republic of Ireland - (equal suffrage granted upon independence from UK. Partial suffrage granted as part of UK in 1869 and 1918)
Burma
Yucat¡n, Mexico (regional and congress elections only)
Ecuador
Mongolia (No electoral system in place prior to this year)
Saint Lucia
Tajik SSR
Italy (local elections only) Dominion of Newfoundland - franchise only at age 25, men could vote at age 21 United Kingdom (franchise equal to that for men)
Puerto Rico (to vote)
South Africa (only granted to white women on the same basis as white men; black women did not qualify for the vote even though some black men did)
Turkey
British Raj (same year as men) (Retained by India and Pakistan after independence in 1947). Myanmar (Burma)
Quebec becomes the final Canadian province to give female suffrage.
Panama (with restrictions) France (October 21)
Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) Italy [6]
Japan (with restrictions)
Senegal
Togo (French Togoland)
Yugoslavia
Cameroon
Djibouti (French Somaliland)
Guatemala
Kenya
North Korea[1]
Liberia (Americo women only; indigenous men and women were not enfranchised until 1951)
The British Mandate of Palestine
Portugal expands suffrage
Romania (with restrictions)
Venezuela
Vietnam
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN includes Article 21: The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. Belgium
Israel (Upon its establishment)
Iraq
South Korea
Niger
Dutch Guiana (now Suriname)
Chile (right expanded to all elections on January 8 by Law No. 9,292)
People's Republic of China
Costa Rica
Syria United Nations enacts Convention on the Political Rights of Women
Bolivia
Cte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Greece
Lebanon
Bhutan
British Guiana (now Guyana) Hungary
Mexico (extended to all women and for national elections)
British Honduras (now Belize)
Colombia
Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Malaya (now Malaysia)
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso)
Chad
Guinea
Laos
Nigeria-South-
Algeria Australia: franchise extended to Aboriginal men and women.
Brunei Revoked (including men)
Monaco
Uganda
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
Afghanistan (revoked under Taliban rule 1996-2001) [7]
Botswana (Bechuanaland)
Lesotho (Basutoland)
Switzerland (on the federal level; introduced on the Cantonal level from 1958-1990)
Jordan Portugal (all restrictions were lifted)
Solomon Islands
Samoa (Western Samoa) Switzerland (the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden is forced by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland to accept women's suffrage)
Qatar (municipal elections in 1999)
United Arab Emirates (limited; to be expanded by 2010)
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