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{{Short description|The right of every person to an equal say in politics}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}{{Elections}}{{Universalism}}Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government’s laws as possible, as supported by the “one person, one vote” principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others).WEB, Universal suffrage definition and meaning {{!, Collins English Dictionary |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/universal-suffrage |access-date=1 February 2019 |website=www.collinsdictionary.com |language=en}}WEB, Definition of UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE,www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/universal+suffrage, 2023-01-18, www.merriam-webster.com, en, ENCYCLOPEDIA, Suffrage, Britannica,www.britannica.com/topic/suffrage, 2023-01-18, en, At the same time, some insist that more inclusion is needed before suffrage can be truly universal.NEWS, Rosenfeld, Sophia, 2023-01-03, Has the United States Ever Been a Democracy?, en-US,www.thenation.com/article/society/jedediah-purdy-two-cheers-for-politics/, 2023-01-21, 0027-8378, Democratic theorists, especially those hoping to achieve more universal suffrage, support presumptive inclusion, where the legal system would protect the voting rights of all subjects unless the government can clearly prove that disenfranchisement is necessary.SSRN, Hamilton, Vivian E., 2012, Democratic Inclusion, Cognitive Development, and the Age of Electoral Majority, en, 2086875, Universal full suffrage includes both the right to vote, also called active suffrage, and the right to be elected, also called passive suffrage.Gwen Jordan, “We Must Forget Every Difference and Unite in a Common Cause - Votes For Woman”: Lessons From the Woman Suffrage Movement (Or, Before the Notorious RBG, There Were the Notorious RGBs), 11 ConLawNOW 91 (2020).

History

File:Election MG 3455.JPG|thumb|Voting is an important part of the formal democratic processdemocratic processFile:Hemicycle of Louise Weiss building of the European Parliament, Strasbourg.jpg|thumb|The European ParliamentEuropean ParliamentIn the first modern democracies, governments restricted the vote to those with property and wealth, which almost always meant a minority of the male population.WEB, Athenian Democracy,www.worldhistory.org/Athenian_Democracy/, 21 May 2020, World History Encyclopedia, In some jurisdictions, other restrictions existed, such as requiring voters to practice a given religion.WEB, America’s True History of Religious Tolerance,www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/, 21 May 2020, Smithsonian Magazine, en, In all modern democracies, the number of people who could vote has increased progressively with time.BOOK, Caramani, Daniele,books.google.com/books?id=6UUfDgAAQBAJ&q=universal+male+suffrage&pg=PA53, Elections in Western Europe 1815–1996, 13 February 2017, Springer, 978-1-349-65508-3, en, WEB, Constitutional Rights Foundation,www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-8-1-b-who-voted-in-early-america, 21 May 2020, www.crf-usa.org, The 19th century saw many movements advocating “universal [male] suffrage”, most notably in Europe and North America.WEB, 3 May 2017, White Manhood Suffrage,americanhistory.si.edu/democracy-exhibition/vote-voice/getting-vote/demanding-vote/white-manhood-suffrage, 21 May 2020, National Museum of American History, en, Female suffrage was largely ignored until the latter half of the century, when movements began to thrive; the first of these was in New Zealand, in which all adult women of all ethnicities gained the right to vote in 1893.WEB, McLintock, Alexander Hare, Patricia Ann Grimshaw, M. A., Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu, WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT,teara.govt.nz/en/1966/womens-suffrage-movement, 2022-02-18, An encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, 1966., en, From there, the movement for the idea of universal suffrage which included women’s suffrage spread across British colonies . However, voting rights were often limited to those of the dominant ethnicity.WEB, Pickles, Katie, NZ was first to grant women the vote in 1893, but then took 26 years to let them stand for parliament,theconversation.com/nz-was-first-to-grant-women-the-vote-in-1893-but-then-took-26-years-to-let-them-stand-for-parliament-123467, 2022-02-18, The Conversation, 18 September 2019, en, WEB, SA, Department of Human Services, The South Australian women’s suffrage campaign,officeforwomen.sa.gov.au/womens-policy/125th-anniversary-of-suffrage/the-south-australian-womens-suffrage-campaign, 2022-02-18, officeforwomen.sa.gov.au, en-AU, JOURNAL, Grimshaw, Patricia, 2000, Settler Anxieties, Indigenous Peoples, and Women’s Suffrage in the Colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai’i, 1888 to 1902, Pacific Historical Review, 69, 4, 553–572, 10.2307/3641224, 0030-8684, 3641224, In the United States, after the principle of “One person, one vote” was established in the early 1960s by the U.S. Supreme Court under Earl Warren,NEWS, Goldman, Ari L., 21 November 1986, One Man, One Vote: Decades of Court Decisions, en-US, The New York Times,www.nytimes.com/1986/11/21/nyregion/one-man-one-vote-decades-of-court-decisions.html, 14 January 2020, 0362-4331, WEB, Pederson, William D., Earl Warren,www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1370/earl-warren, 14 January 2020, www.mtsu.edu, en, the U.S. Congress, together with the Warren Court, continued to protect and expand the voting rights of all Americans, especially African Americans, through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and several Supreme Court rulings.WEB, We Shall Overcome – The Players,www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm, 5 October 2019, www.nps.gov, WEB, Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections,www.oyez.org/cases/1965/48, 5 October 2019, Oyez, en, In addition, the term “suffrage” is also associated specifically with women’s suffrage in the United States; a movement to extend the franchise to women began in the mid-19th century and culminated in 1920,{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} when the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing the right of women to vote.WEB, 19th Amendment,www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxix, 24 May 2019, LII / Legal Information Institute, en, It would be 1928 before voting rights were guaranteed to all women in the UK.WEB, Women Get The Vote,www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/thevote/, parliament.uk,

In more detail

France, under the 1793 Jacobin constitution, was the first major country to enact suffrage for all adult males, though it was never formally used in practice (the constitution was immediately suspended before being implemented, and the subsequent election occurred in 1795 after the fall of the Jacobin government in 1794 discredited most ideas associated with them, including that constitution). Elsewhere in the Francophone world, the Republic of Haiti legislated for universal male suffrage in 1816.BOOK , Following the French revolutions, movements in the Western world toward more universal suffrage occurred in the early 19th century, and focused on removing property requirements for voting. In 1867 Germany (the North German Confederation) enacted suffrage for all adult males. In the United States following the American Civil War, slaves were freed and granted rights of citizens, including suffrage for adult males (although several states established restrictions largely, though not completely, diminishing these rights). In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the focus of the universal suffrage movement came to include the extension of the right to vote to women, as happened from the post-Civil War era in several Western states and during the 1890s in a number of British colonies.On 19 September 1893 the British Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, gave assent to a new electoral act, which meant that New Zealand became the first British-controlled colony in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.WEB,nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage, new zealand women and the vote, nzhistory.govt.nz, 30 June 2019, This was followed shortly after by the colony of South Australia in 1894, which was the second to allow women to vote, but the first colony to permit women to stand for election as well.WEB,www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/womens-suffrage, Women’s suffrage, 1 December 2019, In 1906, the autonomous Russian territory known as Grand Duchy of Finland (which became the Republic of Finland in 1917) became the first territory in the world to implement unrestricted universal suffrage, as women could stand as candidates, unlike in New Zealand, and without indigenous ethnic exclusion, like in Australia. It also lead to the election of the world’s first female members of parliament the following year.WEB,www.eduskunta.fi/EN/tietoaeduskunnasta/historia/Pages/default.aspx, Eduskunnan lyhyt historia, www.eduskunta.fi, WEB,www.aanioikeus.fi/en/articles/strike.htm,www.aanioikeus.fi/en/articles/strike.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20110720175612www.aanioikeus.fi/en/articles/strike.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20110720175612www.aanioikeus.fi/en/articles/strike.htm, 20 July 2011, Centenary of women’s full political rights in Finland, 20 July 2011, Federal states and colonial or autonomous territories prior to World War I have multiple examples of early introduction of universal suffrage. However, these legal changes were effected with the permission of the British, Russian or other government bodies, which were considered the sovereign nation at the time. For this reason, Australia (1901), New Zealand (1908) and Finland (1917) all have different dates of achieving independent nationhood.File:Léon Bienvenu - Le Suffrage universel.jpg|thumb|Satirical drawing by TouchatoutTouchatoutThe First French Republic adopted universal male suffrage briefly in 1792; it was one of the first national systems that abolished all property requirements as a prerequisite for allowing men to register and vote. Greece recognized full male suffrage in 1844.WEB,www.britannica.com/place/Greece, Greece – Building the nation, 1832–1913, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 June 2023, Spain recognized it in the Constitution of 1869 and France and Switzerland have continuously done so since the 1848 Revolution (for resident male citizens). Upon independence in the 19th century, several Latin-American countries and Liberia in Africa initially extended suffrage to all adult males, but subsequently restricted it based on property requirements. The German Empire implemented full male suffrage in 1871.WEB,www.iub.edu/~paris10/ParisOSS/Day10_Sex_and_Gender/d7_Offen.html, Karen Offen, “Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in France Since 1789”, www.iub.edu, 21 December 2019, 1 April 2020,www.iub.edu/~paris10/ParisOSS/Day10_Sex_and_Gender/d7_Offen.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20200401105757www.iub.edu/~paris10/ParisOSS/Day10_Sex_and_Gender/d7_Offen.html,">web.archive.org/web/20200401105757www.iub.edu/~paris10/ParisOSS/Day10_Sex_and_Gender/d7_Offen.html, dead, In the United States, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870 during the Reconstruction era, provided that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This amendment aimed to guarantee the right to vote to African Americans, many of whom had been enslaved in the South prior to the end (1865) of the American Civil War and the 1864–1865 abolition of slavery. Despite the amendment, however, blacks were disfranchised in the former Confederate states after 1877; Southern officials ignored the amendment and blocked black citizens from voting through a variety of devices, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses;Chandler Davidson, “The Recent Evolution of Voting Rights Law Affecting Racial and Language Minorities” in Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–1990 (Princeton University Press, 1994: eds. Chandler Davidson & Bernard Grofman), pp. 21–22. violence and terrorism were used to intimidate some would-be voters.Gary Gershman, “Fifteenth Amendment (1870)” in Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (eds. Charles A. Gallagher, Cameron D. Lippard), pp. 441–43. Southern blacks did not effectively receive the right to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.In 1893 the self-governing colony New Zealand became the first country in the world (except for the short-lived 18th-century Corsican Republic) to grant active universal suffrage by giving women the right to vote. It did not grant universal full suffrage (the right to both vote and be a candidate, or both active and passive suffrage) until 1919.In 1902, the Commonwealth of Australia became the first country to grant full suffrage for women, i.e. the rights both to vote and to run for office.WEB,www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-suffragettes, Australian suffragettes, 17 March 2017,www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-suffragettes," title="web.archive.org/web/20160310153450www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-suffragettes,">web.archive.org/web/20160310153450www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-suffragettes, 2016-03-10, However, Australia did not implement universal suffrage at this time – nationwide voting rights for Aboriginal Australians were not established until 1962, before that varying by state.Many societies in the past have denied or abridged political representation on the basis of race or ethnicity, related to discriminatory ideas about citizenship. For example, in apartheid-era South Africa, non-White people could generally not vote in national elections until the first multi-party elections in 1994. However, a nonracial franchise existed under the Cape Qualified Franchise, which was replaced by a number of separate MPs in 1936 (Blacks) and 1958 (Coloureds). Later, the Tricameral Parliament established separate chambers for Whites, Coloureds and Indians. Rhodesia enacted a similar statute to the former in its proclaimed independence of 1965, which however allowed a smaller number of representatives for the considerably larger Black majority (under its 1961 constitution, the voting classes had been based on socio-economic standards, which marginalized most Black and a few White voters to a separate set of constituencies, under the principle of weighted voting; this was replaced in 1969 by an explicitly racial franchise, with delegated all Blacks to the ‘B’ voters roll).

Women’s suffrage

In Sweden (including Swedish-ruled Finland), women’s suffrage was granted during the Age of Liberty from 1718 until 1772.Karlsson Sjögren, Ã…sa, Männen, kvinnorna och rösträtten: medborgarskap och representation 1723–1866 [Men, women and suffrage: citizenship and representation 1723–1866], Carlsson, Stockholm, 2006 (in Swedish)In Corsica, women’s suffrage was granted in 1755 and lasted until 1769.A. Kulinski, K. Pawlowski. “The Atlantic Community – The Titanic of the XXI Century”. p. 96. WSB-NLU. 2010Women’s suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was granted in New Jersey in 1776 (the word “inhabitants” was used instead of “men” in the 1776 Constitution) and rescinded in 1807.The Pitcairn Islands granted restricted women’s suffrage in 1838. Various other countries and states granted restricted women’s suffrage in the later half of the nineteenth century, starting with South Australia in 1861.The first unrestricted women’s suffrage in a major country was granted in New Zealand in 1893.BOOK, Nohlen, Dieter, Dieter Nohlen, 2001, Elections in Asia and the Pacific: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific, 14, Oxford University Press, The women’s suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of 1893. Māori men had been granted suffrage in 1867, white men in 1879. The Freedom in the World index lists New Zealand as the only free country in the world in 1893.South Australia first granted women suffrage and allowed them to stand for parliament in 1894.In 1906, the autonomous Grand Principality of Finland became the first territory to give women full political rights, i.e. both the right to vote and to run for office, and was the second in the world and the first in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world’s first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year, 1907.After the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Weimar Constitution established universal suffrage in 1919 with a minimum voting age of 20.In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic allowed women the right of passive suffrage with three women being elected.During a discussion on extending women’s right to active suffrage, the Radical Socialist Victoria Kent confronted the Radical Clara Campoamor. Kent argued that Spanish women were not yet prepared to vote and, since they were too influenced by the Catholic Church, they would vote for right-wing candidates. Campoamor however pleaded for women’s rights regardless of political orientation. Her point finally prevailed and, in the election of 1933, the political right won with the vote of citizens of any sex over 23. Both Campoamor and Kent lost their seats.In Switzerland, women’s suffrage was introduced at the federal level, by a nationwide (male) referendum in 1971, but the referendum did not give women the right to vote at the local Cantonal level. The Cantons independently voted to grant women the right to vote. The first Canton to give women the right to vote was Vaud in 1959. The last Canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, had a centuries-old law forbidding women to vote. This was only changed in 1990 when Switzerland’s Federal Court ordered the Canton to grant women the right to vote.WEB,www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219, 1990 - Einführung des Frauenstimmrechtes, Kanton Appenzell Innerrhoden, de, Appenzell, Switzerland, 2016-08-07,www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219," title="web.archive.org/web/20160822025740www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219,">web.archive.org/web/20160822025740www.ai.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=219, 22 August 2016, dmy-all,

Youth suffrage

The movement to lower the voting age many consider an aspect of universal suffrageWEB, Pearse, Harry, Why aren’t children allowed to vote? An expert debunks the arguments against,theconversation.com/why-arent-children-allowed-to-vote-an-expert-debunks-the-arguments-against-187497, 2023-01-18, The Conversation, 28 December 2022, en, that the youth rights movement has helped to lead. Organizations such as the National Youth Rights Association are active in the United States to advocate for a lower voting age, with some success,WEB,www.youthrights.org/blog/congress-votes-on-lowering-voting-age-to-16/, Congress Votes on Lowering Voting Age to 16, Conner, Brian, 14 March 2019, youthrights.org, National Youth Rights Association, 4 April 2019, NYRA has been campaigning for a lower voting age since we were founded in 1998, and we are overjoyed that pro-youth policies are finally close to passing on the national level thanks to our years of local advocacy in towns such as Takoma Park, MD where we helped lower the voting age in 2013., among other issues related to youth rights. A related movement, suffrage for Americans with disabilities provides important precedents and intersectionality with the movement to extend voting rights to children and youth.

Non-citizen suffrage

While many places extend the right to vote in at least some elections to non-citizens living in their community, many people remain unable to vote based on their citizenship status.

Dates by country

{{Outdated as of|2021|08|topic=Afghanistan}}States have granted and revoked universal suffrage at various times.Note: this chart does not indicate periods of autocratic rule (when voting has little or no power).

• Adult citizens There are no distinctions between citizens over a certain age in any part of its territories due to gender, literacy, wealth, social status, religion, race, or ethnicity.
• Male is for all males over a certain age in the majority ethnic or sectarian group irrespective of literacy, wealth, or social status.
• Female is for when all women over a certain age can vote on the same terms as men.
• Ethnicity is for when all eligible voters over a certain age can vote on the same terms as the majority or politically dominant group irrespective of religion, race, or ethnicity.

Since historically one group or another might have lost suffrage rights only to regain them later on, this table lists the last uninterrupted time from the present a group was granted the right to vote if that group’s suffrage has been fully restored.{{noprint|Note: The table can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the (File:Sort both.gif|class=noviewer) icons.}}{| class=“sortable wikitable“|+ Suffrage milestones by country or territory! Country or territory! Adult citizens! Male! Female! Ethnicity! class=“unsortable“| Notes| Afghanistan| 2004| 2004| 2004| 2004

Amanullah Khan>King Amanullah Khan “created Afghanistan’s first constitution, which abolished slavery, created a legislature, guaranteed secular education, and instituted equal rights for men and women.“HTTPS://CENTRALASIAINSTITUTE.ORG/WOMENS-VOTING-RIGHTS/>TITLE=THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S VOTING RIGHTS	1964 Constitution of Afghanistan transformed Afghanistan into a modern democracy.HTTP://NEWS.BBC.CO.UK/2/HI/SOUTH_ASIA/1573181.STM	TITLE=PROFILE: EX-KING ZAHIR SHAH	Soviet–Afghan War>Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and toppled the government, leaving in 1989. The Taliban took control of the government in 1996. But it wasn’t until after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that people regained the right to vote in 2004

| Argentina| 1952| 1853| 1952| 1853| Universal male suffrage was instituted in 1853. Universal, secret and mandatory suffrage for male citizens over 18 years of age was granted by the Sáenz Peña Law (General Election Law) of 1912. It was amended to include female citizens in 1947 but became effective in 1952.| Armenia| 1919| 1919| 1919| 1919

First Republic of Armenia. June 21 and 23, 1919, first direct parliamentary elections were held in Armenia under universal suffrage - every person over the age of 20 had the right to vote regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs and 3 women were elected as MPs.BADALYAN, LENA	TITLE=WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: THE ARMENIAN FORMULA	ACCESS-DATE=30 NOVEMBER 2018	ARCHIVE-DATE=1 DECEMBER 2018	URL-STATUS=DEAD, HARUTYUNYAN>FIRST1=ANAHIT	SCRIPT-TITLE=HY:Ô±Õ¼Õ¡Õ»Õ«Õ¶ Õ­Õ¸Ö€Õ°Ö€Õ¤Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ¶Õ« (1919-1920) Õ¥Ö€Õ¥Ö„ Õ¯Õ«Õ¶ ÕºÕ¡Õ¿Õ£Õ¡Õ´Õ¡Õ¾Õ¸Ö€Õ¶Õ¥Ö€Õ¨	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20180504044633/HTTPS://WWW.ANIARC.AM/2018/03/08/WOMEN-1919-1920-MP/	ACCESS-DATE=11 JANUARY 2019	PUBLISHER=ARMENIAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTERIOLOGY	LANGUAGE=HY, Three female deputies of the first parliament (1919-1920), Simon Vratsian Hayastani Hanrapetutyun (The Republic of Armenia, Arm.), Yerevan, 1993, p. 292.

Suffrage in Australia>Australia| 1965| 1901	Women’s suffrage in Australia>1902	Voting rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples>1965	Colony of South Australia enacted legislation providing for universal male suffrage for all male residents over the age of 21.HTTP://WWW.AUSTLII.EDU.AU/AU/LEGIS/SA/NUM_ACT/CA2O19V18556265/	DATE=4 JANUARY 1856		AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION > URL=HTTPS://WWW.AEC.GOV.AU/ABOUT_AEC/25/THEME1-VOTING-HISTORY.HTM, 9 March 2022, The parliaments of the Colony of Victoria and the Colony of New South Wales followed suit by enacting legislation providing universal male suffrage in 1857 and 1858, respectively.In 1894, the parliament of the Colony of South Australia enacted legislation providing female adults franchise; giving all adults of the age of majority the right to vote in elections, and for any elector to stand for high office.In 1901, the self-governing colonies of Australia federated. In 1902, the new federal parliament legislated for an adult franchise and the right of electors to stand for and occupy any office for which they could directly vote. This franchise, including voting rights for non-Indigenous women, was established by the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902.WEB, Women’s Suffrage,www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/senior-secondary/shoulder-shoulder-feminism-australia/womens-suffrage, 2022-07-09, National Library of Australia, en, Voting rights for Indigenous Australians varied depending on state legislation. The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 granted Indigenous Australians the right to vote in federal elections. In 1965, the Queensland parliament extended voting rights to all Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. Compulsory enrolment was extended to Indigenous Australians nationwide in 1984.WEB, Indigenous Australians’ right to vote,www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/indigenous-australians-right-to-vote, 2022-07-09, National Museum of Australia, en,

| Austria| 1918| 1896

Women’s suffrage in Austria>1918| 1907| Universal suffrage 1896, universal and equal suffrage (removing multiple voting) 1907. Before 1907 unmarried landholding women were allowed to vote. After the Central Powers’ defeat in World War I universal suffrage including women.

| Azerbaijan| 1919| 1919| 1919| 1919| Joined the nascent Soviet UnionWhile the USSR was not formally founded until 1922, a group of socialist republics under the influence of Soviet Russia existed for several years before that. in 1920.| Bahamas| 1961| 1958| 1961| 1807

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| Bahrain| 1975| 1975

	DATE=25 APRIL 1908	ACCESS-DATE=6 MAY 2013	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20150712053951/HTTP://WOMENSHISTORY.ABOUT.COM/OD/SUFFRAGE/A/INTL_TIMELINE_3.HTM, dead, | –| Universal suffrage in 1973, although parliament was suspended and dissolved in 1975 for approximately 30 years. Non-Sunni Muslims cannot vote.

| Belgium| 1948| 1893| 1948| 1893

Suffrage#Census suffrage>census suffrage for all men aged 25 and above since 1893. Depending on education and amount of taxes paid, males could cast between 1 and 3 votes. Widows were also allowed to vote but lost their voting rights after remarrying. Universal single suffrage for males since 1918. Universal suffrage for women was finally introduced in 1948.

| Bhutan| 2008| 2008| 2008| 2008|| Bolivia| 1952| 1938| 1952| 1952

Elections in Bolivia>granted by decree of 1952; first elections in 1956; women’s suffrage coincided with abolition of literacy requirements.

| Brazil| 1985| 1891| 1932| 1891

Brazilian Constitution of 1891 excluding beggars, women, illiterates, lowest ranking soldiers and members of monastic orders.(:pt:Constituição brasileira de 1891){{Circular reference>date=February 2021}}HTTP://WWW.PLANALTO.GOV.BR/CCIVIL_03/CONSTITUICAO/CONSTITUICAO91.HTM> TITLE = CONSTITUI O91, History of the Constitution of Brazil{{Circular reference			ARCHIVE-DATE = 2007-07-06, Emc25,

| Brunei| –| –| –| –| No elections.| Bulgaria| 1945| 1879| 1945| 1879

Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)>Fatherland front.

| Burma/Myanmar| 1990| 1990| 1990| 1990

	TITLE=BURMA TIMELINE	2015 Myanmar general election>2015, which elected 75% of legislators, while 25% remain appointed by the military.

| Canada| 1960| 1920

Women’s suffrage in Canada>1920| 1960	Chinese Canadians and Aboriginal Canadians;EQUALITY AND JUSTICE – FOR SOME	PUBLISHER=CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION	Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan) and 1940 (Quebec). Chinese Canadians, regardless of gender, were given suffrage in 1947, while Aboriginal Canadians were not allowed to vote until 1960, regardless of gender. Newfoundland (Dominion)>Newfoundland which joined Canada in 1949 had universal male suffrage in 1925.

| Chile| 1970| 1970

Women’s suffrage in Chile>1970| 1970| From 1888 suffrage for men of any race over 21 who can read. From 1925 full suffrage for men aged 21 and above and able to read and write. 1934 women get to vote on Municipal Elections. From 1949 universal suffrage for men and women aged 21 and above and able to read and write. From 1970 suffrage for men and women aged 18 and older whether or not they can read.

| China| 1953| 1947| 1953| 1947

Constitution of the Republic of China when the First National Assembly (disbanded 2005) elections were held in 1947. But women were not explicitly enfranchised until 1953 thanks to the first Elections in China>Electoral Law of the People’s Republic of China.HTTPS://WWW.INSIDER.COM/WHEN-WOMEN-AROUND-THE-WORLD-GOT-THE-RIGHT-TO-VOTE-2019-2>TITLE = WHEN WOMEN GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN 25 PLACES AROUND THE WORLD

INSIDER.COM, The general populace can only vote for Elections in China#Direct elections>local elections. National elections for president and premier are held by the National People’s Congress. Taiwan had the first multi-party legislative elections in 1992 and the first presidential election in 1996.

| Colombia| 1954| 1936

Women’s suffrage in Colombia>1954| 1936| Universal male suffrage started in 1853, restricted in 1886. Electorate defined on the basis of adult franchise and joint electorate.

| First Czechoslovak Republic| 1918| 1896| 1918| 1896| Within Austria, universal suffrage 1896, universal and equal suffrage (removing multiple voting) 1907. After the Central Powers’ defeat in World War I, universal suffrage including women.| Denmark| 1915| 1849| 1915| 1849

	WEBSITE=DANMARKSHISTORIEN.DK, Danish law does not operate with any notion of “ethnicity”, but non-resident citizens are still excluded from voting after two years abroad.HTTPS://VALG.OIM.DK/VAELGERE/UDLANDSDANSKERES-VALGRET/>TITLE=UDLANDSDANSKERES VALGRET, valg.oim.dk,

| Dominican Republic| 2015| {{date?}}| {{date?}}| {{date?}}

Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna proposed the inclusion of the military vote in the constitutional reform of Dominican Republic, to be effective in the elections of 2016.HTTPS://ELDIA.COM.DO/ZORRILLA-OZUNA-PROPONE-INCLUIR-VOTO-MILITAR-EN-MODIFICACION-CONSTITUCIONAL/	DATE=1 JUNE 2015	LANGUAGE=ES, 23 August 2019,

| Ecuador| {{date?}}| {{date?}}

Women’s suffrage in Ecuador>1929| {{date?}}|

| Estonia| 1918| 1917| 1918| 1917| Two tiered elections were held, with 62 representatives from rural communities and towns elected in May–June and July–August, respectively.| European Union| 1979| 1979| 1979| 1979|Elections to the European Parliament have taken place since 1979.| Finland| 1906| 1906| 1906| 1906

Autonomous entity>autonomous Grand Principality in the Russian Empire, Finland achieved universal suffrage in 1906, becoming the second country in the world to adopt universal suffrage.OFFICIAL REPORT OF DEBATES >PAGE=113	DATE=1991, The Finnish parliamentary election of 1907 was the first time when women were elected (19 of 200 MPs). After becoming independent in 1917, Finland continued its universal suffrage.

| France

group=nb	Over the years suffrage increased and decreased based on the introduction, repeal and reintroduction of various degrees of universal, property and census-based suffrage. Universal male suffrage was given in 1848 and in 1944 women had equal universal suffrage rights to men. The military obtained the right to vote in 1945.}}| 1792| 1944	group=nb	In 1792, the Convention assembly was elected by all French males 21 and over regardless of one’s ethnicity. While not an ethnicity, those serving in the military obtained the right to vote in 1945.}}		DATE=2009	URL=HTTPS://WWW.CAMBRIDGE.ORG/CORE/JOURNALS/BRITISH-JOURNAL-OF-POLITICAL-SCIENCE/ARTICLE/ABS/CONQUERED-OR-GRANTED-A-HISTORY-OF-SUFFRAGE-EXTENSIONS/A4E9E4C21CA70A0603744957F941A78A	LANGUAGE=EN	ISSUE=2	DOI=10.1017/S0007123408000434	date=September 2013}}

| Georgia| 1919| 1919| 1919| 1919| The first democratic elections were held on 14–16 February 1919. Five women were elected in total (for Menshevik party) to take part in national legislature numbering 130MPs. In 1921, Georgia became a part of the nascent Soviet Union.| Germany| 1919| 1871| 1919| 1919| The German Empire from 1871 until 1918 (and the North German Confederation before it from 1867) had universal male suffrage, one of the more progressive election franchises at the time.M. L. Anderson: Praciticing Democracy. Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Princeton (NJ) 2000; After the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Weimar Constitution established universal suffrage in 1919 with a minimum voting age of 20.| Ghana| 1951| 1951| 1951| 1951

1951 Gold Coast legislative election>1951 legislative election. This was the first election to be held in Africa under universal suffrage.Brown, J.M. & Roger Louis, W.M. (1999) The Oxford History of the British Empire

| Greece| 1952| 1844| 1952| 1844

3 September 1843 Revolution>Revolution of 3 September 1843, the Greek Constitution of 1844 with the electoral law of 18 March 1844 introduced universal male suffrage with secret ballot.HTTPS://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/PLACE/GREECE>TITLE=GREECE – BUILDING THE NATION, 1832–1913	LANGUAGE=EN, 23 August 2019, Women were given the right to vote in local elections in 1930 and in parliamentary elections since 1952.

Democratic development in Hong Kong>Hong Kong| 1991| 1991| 1991| 1991	1991 Hong Kong legislative election>legislative elections in 1991, electing part of the legislators. However currently, less than a quarter of the seats in its Legislative Council of Hong Kong	are elected via universal suffrage, the rest being Functional constituency>functional constituencies elected by trade groups and seats held by those elected by the establishment-controlled Election Committee.

| Hungary| 1918| 1918| 1918| 1867| After the Central Powers’ defeat in World War I.Somewhat reverted in 1925: women’s voting age raised to 30, education and wealth requirements were raised. In rural constituencies open voting was reinstated.The rate of eligible citizens fell to 29%.WEB, Hungarian Voting Act of 1925,1000ev.hu/index.php?a=3¶m=7637,1000ev.hu/index.php?a=3¶m=7637," title="web.archive.org/web/201506231629581000ev.hu/index.php?a=3¶m=7637,">web.archive.org/web/201506231629581000ev.hu/index.php?a=3¶m=7637, 23 June 2015, hu, | Iceland| 1920| 1920| 1920| 1920

1844 Icelandic parliamentary election>1844 Althing elections.JóHANNESSON >FIRST=GUðNI TH.	TITLE=COUNTRY REPORT: ICELAND	JOURNAL=EUDO CITIZENSHIP OBSERVATORY, HVENæR VARð KOSNINGARéTTUR ALMENNUR á ÍSLANDI? >URL=HTTP://WWW.VISINDAVEFUR.IS/SVAR.PHP?ID=73712	WEBSITE=VíSINDAVEFURINN, is, A small share of women were granted the right to vote in local elections in 1882.WEB, Iceland celebrates Women’s Rights Day today!,icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/06/19/iceland_celebrates_women_s_rights_day_today/, 2022-04-30, Iceland Monitor, Women’s suffrage was proposed in the Althing in 1911, ratified by the Althing in 1913, and enacted on 19 June 1915 by the Danish king but only granted the vote to women over 40, and did not grant the right to vote to servants.WEB, Styrkársdóttir, Auður, Kvennasögusafn Íslands – Women’s suffrage in Iceland,kvennasogusafn.is/index.php?page=womens-suffrage, 19 October 2018, kvennasogusafn.is, Director of the Women’s History Archives, Iceland from 2001–2016, is, 19 October 2018,web.archive.org/web/20181019164039/https://kvennasogusafn.is/index.php?page=womens-suffrage, dead, These restrictions (along with some restrictions on male suffrage) were lifted in 1920 after Iceland became an independent state under the Danish crown in 1918.WEB, Benjamin, Gabríel, 6 March 2015, Icelanders Celebrate The 100 Year Anniversary Of Women’s Suffrage,grapevine.is/culture/2015/03/06/icelanders-celebrate-the-100-year-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage/, 19 October 2018, The Reykjavik Grapevine,

| India| 1950| 1950

Women’s suffrage in India>1950| 1950| All adult citizens as recognized by the Constitution of India, irrespective of race or gender or religion on the founding of the Republic of India.

| Indonesia| 1955| 1955| 1955| 1955|| Iran| 1963| 1906| 1963| 1906

Iranian Constitutional Revolution>Constitutional Revolution”. The White Revolution gave Women’s rights movement in Iran	in 1963.IRAN	PUBLISHER=THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE, 17 January 2016,

| Ireland| 1923| 1918| 1923| 1793

Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793{{refn>group=nb	Catholic emancipation>voting ban from Catholic men in the Kingdom of Ireland. All adult men in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act 1918.THE HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE>URL=HTTP://RESEARCHBRIEFINGS.PARLIAMENT.UK/RESEARCHBRIEFING/SUMMARY/RP13-14	ACCESS-DATE=16 MARCH 2016	group=nb	Electoral Act 1923 in the Irish Free State changed previous British law to enfranchise women equally with men in 1923.1923	NUMBER=12	STITLE=DáIL FRANCHISE, Electoral Act 1923,

| Israel| 1948| 1948| 1948| 1948| Universal suffrage since the founding of the State of Israel.| Italy| 1945| 1912| 1945| 1912

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN ITALY: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH (1), Riv. trim. dir. pubbl., fasc.4, 2010, pag. 1009. In 1918 the electorate was expanded with all male citizens aged 21 and older or who had served in the army. Universal adult suffrage, including women, introduced in 1945, and applied for the first time in the 1946 Italian institutional referendum>referendum of 1946. Suffrage for men and women aged 18 granted in 1975.

| Jamaica| 1944| 1944| 1944| 1944| Universal adult suffrage introduced.| Japan| 1945| 1925

Women’s suffrage in Japan>1945| 1925| Universal adult male suffrage for those over 25 was introduced in 1925. Universal adult suffrage for both sexes over 20 introduced in 1945. The Voting age was reduced to 18 in 2016.

| Kuwait| 2005| 1962

Women’s suffrage in Kuwait>2005| 1962| Universal adult male suffrage since 1962, for citizens who are 21 or older, with the exception of those who, at the time of elections, serve in the armed forces. As of 2005, women who satisfy the age and citizenship requirements are allowed to vote.

| Latvia| 1919| 1919| 1919| 1919| Universal suffrage introduced in Law of elections to the Constituent assembly.| Lebanon| 1943| 1943| 1943| 1943| Universal suffrage for all adult males and females since the independence of Lebanon (The Chamber of Deputies is shared equally between Christians and Muslims, rather than elected by universal suffrage that would have provided a Muslim majority).| Liberia| 1951| 1946| 1946| –| Liberia denies political rights for non-Black people. See: Liberian nationality law| Liechtenstein| 1984| {{date?}}

Women’s suffrage in Liechtenstein>1984| {{date?}}|

| Lithuania| 1922| 1922| 1922| 1922|| Luxembourg| 1919| 1919

	URL=HTTPS://LUXEMBOURG.PUBLIC.LU/EN/SOCIETY-AND-CULTURE/POLITICAL-SYSTEM/ELECTORAL-SYSTEM.HTML, 26 April 2023, | 1919| Universal voting rights introduced in May 1919, first applied in a referendum on 28 September, then the parliamentarian elections on 26 October 1919.

| Malaysia| 1957| 1956| 1957| 1956|| Malta| 1947| 1947| 1947| 1947

1947 Maltese general election>1947 election was the first election without property qualifications for voters, and women were also allowed to vote for the first time.

| Mauritius| 1959| 1948| 1959| 1948

1959 Mauritian general election>1959 election was the first election when women were also allowed to vote for the first time. The 1948 Mauritian general election was the first instance when any adult who could write their names in any of the island’s languages was allowed to vote, without property qualifications for voters.MAURITIUS: HISTORY >URL=HTTPS://THECOMMONWEALTH.ORG/OUR-MEMBER-COUNTRIES/MAURITIUS/HISTORY	ACCESS-DATE=28 JULY 2020	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20200619080933/HTTPS://THECOMMONWEALTH.ORG/OUR-MEMBER-COUNTRIES/MAURITIUS/HISTORY, dead,

| Mexico| 1953| 1917

Women’s suffrage in Mexico>1953| 1917		WORK= THINKFINITY	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://ARCHIVE.TODAY/20100809083217/HTTP://WWW.THINKFINITY.ORG/2010-10-17_MEXICAN-WOMEN-RIGHT-TO-VOTE-RUN-FOR-OFFICE		WEBSITE=MIGRATION.UCDAVIS.EDU,

| Netherlands| 1919| 1917| 1919| 1917| From 1917 full suffrage for men aged 23 and above. From 1919 universal suffrage for men and women aged 23. From 1971 suffrage for men and women aged 18 and older.| New Zealand| 1893| 1879

Women’s suffrage in New Zealand>1893| 1879	Māori people>Māori men over 21 from 1867, and for white men from 1879.HTTP://WWW.ELECTIONS.ORG.NZ/STUDY/HISTORY/MAORI-VOTE.HTML >TITLE=HISTORY OF THE VOTE: MāORI AND THE VOTE	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20070429093638/HTTP://WWW.ELECTIONS.ORG.NZ/STUDY/HISTORY/MAORI-VOTE.HTML	Voting rights of prisoners in New Zealand>prison inmates are denied the right to vote.

| Norway| 1913| 1898| 1913| 1851

	DATE=15 MAY 2018	LANGUAGE=NO, 23 August 2019, The so-called Jew clause in the Constitution of 1814 explicitly banned Jews from entering and residing in the kingdom. It was repealed in 1851, paving the way for Jews to live, pay taxes and vote in Norway.

| Pakistan| 1956| 1951| 1956| 1951|In 1956, women were granted the right to vote in national elections. Pakistan adopted universal adult suffrage for provisional assembly elections soon after it became independent in 1947. The first direct elections held in the country after independence were for the provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 10 to 20 March 1951.| Paraguay| {{date?}}| {{date?}}

Women’s suffrage in Paraguay>1961| {{date?}}|

| Peru| 1979| 1979| 1979| 1979|Suffrage was granted for women in 1955 but suffrage for the illiterate was only granted with the 1979 Constitution.| Philippines| 1946| 1935| 1937| 1946

1937 Philippine women suffrage plebiscite>plebiscite in 1937.HTTP://OPINION.INQUIRER.NET/INQUIREROPINION/COLUMNS/VIEW/20091112-235872/SUFFRAGE >TITLE=SUFFRAGE	LAST=TAN	PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER >DATE=12 NOVEMBER 2009, 17 January 2013,

| Poland| 1918| 1918| 1918| 1918| Prior to the Partition of Poland in 1795, only nobility (men) were allowed to take part in political life. The first parliamentary elections were held on 26 January 1919 (1919 Polish legislative election), according to the decree introducing universal suffrage, signed by Józef Piłsudski on 28 November 1918, immediately after restoring independent Polish state. Universal suffrage for men and women over 21.| Portugal| 1974| 1974| 1974| 1974

5 October 1910 revolution), being reinstalled only in the 1920s. Restricted female suffrage was firstly allowed in 1931; it was further extended in 1933, 1946, and finally 1968. Due to the 1933–74 dictatorship of Estado Novo (Portugal)>Estado Novo, universal suffrage was only fully attained after the 1974 Carnation revolution.

| Qatar| 1999| 1999| 1999| {{date?}}| Municipal elections are open for active and passive participation for men and women since 1999.| Romania| 1948| 1918| 1948| 1918

1919 Romanian general election>first elections using universal suffrage took place in November 1919. Literate women were given the right to vote in the local elections in 1929 and the electoral law of 1939 extended the active voting rights to all literate citizens which were 30 years old or older. The universal suffrage was granted by the 1948 Constitution of Romania.HTTP://WWW.RADIOOLTENIA.RO/ISTORIA-VOTULUI-IN-ROMANIA/>TITLE=ISTORIA VOTULUI îN ROMâNIA [VOTING HISTORY IN ROMANIA]	AUTHOR=OCTAVIAN DOBRIșAN	DATE=11 DECEMBER 2016		80 DE ANI DE CâND FEMEILE POT VOTA îN ROMâNIA [80 YEARS SINCE WOMEN CAN VOTE IN ROMANIA]>AUTHOR=IONUț DULăMIță, IONUț SOCIU	LANGUAGE=RO	ACCESS-DATE=29 JANUARY 2019,

| Russia| 1917| 1917| 1917| 1917

Russian Provisional Government>Provisional Government of 15 March 1917 and Statute on Elections of the Constituent Assembly of 2 August 1917.Национальные парламенты мира : энцикл. справ. / А. Х. Саидов; Рос. акад. наук, Ин-т государства и права, p. 148.

| Samoa| 1991| 1990| 1991| 1990|| Saudi Arabia| 2015| 2005| 2015| 2005

authoritarian state.FAHIM

DATE=27 NOVEMBER 2020

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ACCESS-DATE=19 MARCH 2022, KENNETH >FIRST1=POLLACK M.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES >URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2020/10/16/BOOKS/REVIEW/VISION-OR-MIRAGE-DAVID-RUNDELL-BLOOD-AND-OIL-BRADLEY-HOPE-JUSTIN-SCHECK.HTML

DATE=3 MARCH 2021

URL=HTTPS://DORNSIFE.USC.EDU/NEWS/STORIES/3416/WHY-REPRESSIVE-SAUDI-ARABIA-REMAINS-A-US-ALLY/

WEBSITE=USC DORNSIFE, Men and women have the right to vote for half the seats in “virtually powerless” municipal councils.LACEY >FIRST=ROBERT

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| Serbia| 1945| 1888| 1945| 1888

Constitution of Serbia>Constitution of 1888 the right to vote was given to all males of age 21. Women were allowed to vote with the Communist constitution of Yugoslavia.

| South Africa| 1994| 1910| 1931| 1994| White women’s suffrage granted in 1930 and suffrage for all white adults regardless of property in 1931. Universal suffrage not regarding race or colour of skin; many blacks and Coloureds were denied the right to vote before and during the apartheid era (1948–1994).| South Korea| 1948| 1948| 1948| 1948

	TITLE=THE KOREAN WAR: A HISTORY	PAGE=111,

| Spain| 1977| 1812| 1977| 1869

	DATE=1953	JOURNAL=THE HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW	ISSUE=1	DOI=10.2307/2509621	ISSN=0018-2168, Extended to all men from 1869 to 1878 (comprising the Provisional Government, the Reign of Amadeo of Savoy, the First Spanish Republic and the three first years of Bourbon Restoration) and from 1890 to the end of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–36).WEB,dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/1704411.pdf, El sufragio universal en Espana (1890–1936), 5 December 2019, On 19 November 1933 women were granted the right to vote. Revoked during Franco era (1939–75) and recovered since 1977 in the new Spanish Constitution.

| Sri Lanka| 1931| 1931

Women’s suffrage in Sri Lanka>1931| 1931| Universal suffrage for all irrespective of race, ethnicity, language, or gender. Sri Lanka is the oldest democracy in Asia.

| Sweden| 1945| 1909

Women’s suffrage in Sweden>1919| 1873	section=Sweden

| Switzerland| 1990| 1848

Women’s suffrage in Switzerland>1990| 1866

Old Swiss Confederacy, universal male suffrage is first attested in Canton of Uri>Uri in 1231, in Schwyz in 1294, in Unterwalden in 1309, and in Appenzell in 1403. In these rural communities all men fit for military service were allowed to participate in the Landsgemeinde, which managed political and judicial affairs.In the short-lived Helvetic Republic (1798-1803) men above the age of 20 had the right to vote. At the formation of today’s federal state in 1848, Switzerland reintroduced universal male suffrage. Jews did not have the same political rights as Christian citizens until 1866.Women’s suffrage was introduced at a national level in federal elections after a nationwide (male) referendum in 1971, but the referendum did not give women the right to vote at the local Cantonal level and still allowed women to be barred from the ability to vote on the basis of their gender. All, save one, of the cantons independently voted to grant women the right to vote at different times during the second half of the 20th century.Before the referendum in 1971, women gained the right to vote for local cantonal elections in Vaud, & Neuchâtel in 1959; Genêve in 1960; Basel-Stadt in 1966; Basel-Land in 1968; Ticino in 1969; and Valais, Luzern, & Zürich in 1970. The same year as the referendum in 1971: Aargau, Fribourg, Schaffhausen, Zug, Glarus, Solothurn, Bern, & Thurgau extended the right to vote in local elections. St. Gallen, Uri, Schwyz, Graubünden, Nidwalden, & Obwalden soon followed in 1972, with Appenzell Ausserrhoden allowing women to vote in local cantonal elections in 1989. Those of canton Appenzell Innerrhoden had to wait until 1990 and a ruling of the Federal Court that forced the canton to grant women the right to vote.WEB, Von Wyl, Benjamin, Appenzell Inner Rhodes: the last Swiss canton to give women the vote,www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/a-visit-to-appenzell-inner-rhodes--the-last-canton-to-grant-women-the-right-to-vote-in-switzerland-/46328984, Swissinfo.ch, 2 February 2021,

| Thailand| 1933| 1933| 1933| 1933

	TITLE=WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN THAILAND: A SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CHALLENGE	DATE=N.D.	ISSUE=4	DOI=10.1017/S0010417510000435, free, Universal suffrage for national elections was granted during the first general election in 1933.

| Tunisia| 1959| {{date?}}| 1957| {{date?}}

Constitution of Tunisia#Constitution of 1959>constitution.

| Turkey| 1934| 1876| 1934| 1876|| United Arab Emirates| –| 2006| 2006| 2006

Emirati nationality law>Emirati citizens have the right to vote for half the members of the Federal National Council, an advisory quasi-parliamentary body.COLES >FIRST=ISABEL

TITLE=UAE ELECTIONS: WHAT SUBSTANCE BEHIND THE GLOSS?

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URL=HTTPS://WWW.CAMBRIDGE.ORG/CORE/JOURNALS/INTERNATIONAL-JOURNAL-OF-MIDDLE-EAST-STUDIES/ARTICLE/ABS/NATION-OF-BUREAUCRATS-POLITICAL-PARTICIPATION-AND-ECONOMIC-DIVERSIFICATION-IN-KUWAIT-AND-THE-UNITED-ARAB-EMIRATES/E3527822940D0E8A2BCD98A320002C3E

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Elections in the United Kingdom#History>United Kingdom| 1928| 1918

Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom>1928| 1791

Catholic emancipation>based on religion occurred with the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791{{refn

name=RCRA1829

Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 reflects eligibility for office, not the eligibility to vote.}} in the Kingdom of Great Britain. The right to vote has never since been based on race or religion.{{refn>group=nb

History of Northern Ireland#1925 to 1965>local government gerrymandering in Northern Ireland was one of the factors which led to the Troubles,A HISTORY OF THE ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY: PROTEST, PRAGMATISM AND PESSIMISM (MANCHESTER STUDIES IN MODERN HISTORY) >FIRST=GRAHAM

DATE=4 SEPTEMBER 2004

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Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972>suspended the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the post of Governor and made provision for Direct rule (Northern Ireland)

by the elected government of the United Kingdom.}} All adult men in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act 1918. This Act granted women over 30 the right to vote in national elections,{{refn>group=nb

Until the Reform Act 1832 specified ‘male persons’, a few women had been able to vote in parliamentary elections through property ownership, although this was rare.HEATER>FIRST1=DEREK

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Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Unmarried women ratepayers received the right to vote in the Municipal Franchise Act 1869. This right was confirmed in the Local Government Act 1894 and extended to include some married women.HEATER

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ACCESS-DATE=11 FEBRUARY 2015, By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England.{{citation

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Equal Franchise Act 1928, when women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Peter N. Stearns (2008). “The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world, Volume 7”. p. 160. Oxford University Press, 2008 The Representation of the People Act 1948 removed plural voting rights held by about 7% of the electorate.HTTPS://WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/NEWS/0/GENERAL-ELECTION-2017-MAGNA-CARTA-UNIVERSAL-SUFFRAGE-1000-YEAR/

ARCHIVE-DATE=11 JANUARY 2022

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Graduates of universities lost the right to vote in university constituency

as well as parliamentary boroughs and property owners lost the right to vote both in the constituency where their property lay and that in which they lived, if the two were different. For elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, these changes were made under the Electoral Law Act 1968.HTTP://WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK/APNI/1968/20/INTRODUCTION

WEBSITE=WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK

Representation of the People Act 1969 reduced the voting age from 21 to 18, the first major democratic country to do so.BINGHAM

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QUOTE=, HTTPS://HANSARD.PARLIAMENT.UK/COMMONS/2018-06-19/DEBATES/A0942369-590A-4AD5-BA57-81E07913B8DD/REPRESENTATIONOFTHEPEOPLE(GIBRALTAR)?HIGHLIGHT=REPRESENTATION%20OVERSEAS%20TERRITORIES%20BILL#CONTRIBUTION-D85F8774-137E-4869-B18F-DA6C6DAD3F45 >TITLE=REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (GIBRALTAR), VOLUME 643: DEBATED ON TUESDAY 19 JUNE 2018

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| United Nations| 1948| 1948| 1948| 1948| Provision of “universal and equal suffrage” in Universal Declaration of Human Rights [Article 21(3)]

Voting rights in the United States>United States

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While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

in 1870 and Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution>19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most African Americans and some poor whites could not vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Starting in 1888 Southern states legalized disenfranchisement by enacting Jim Crow laws; they amended their constitutions and passed legislation to impose various voting restrictions, including literacy tests, poll taxes, property-ownership requirements, moral character tests, requirements that applicants interpret a particular document, and grandfather clauses that allowed otherwise-ineligible persons to vote if their grandfathers voted (which excluded many African Americans whose grandfathers had been ineligible). During this period, the Supreme Court generally upheld state efforts to discriminate against racial minorities. In Giles v. Harris (1903), the Court held that irrespective of the Fifteenth Amendment, the judiciary did not have the remedial power to force states to register racial minorities to vote. The Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 gave Native Americans the right to vote and officially recognized them as citizens, nearly two-thirds of whom already had citizenship and the right to vote. In 1943 Chinese immigrants were given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act. African Americans and others gained full enfranchisement through passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.}}

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1828 United States presidential election>1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states, but this was not consistent across the country until the last state, North Carolina, abolished property qualification in 1856 resulting in a close approximation to universal white male suffrage (however tax-paying requirements remained in five states in 1860 and survived in two states until the 20th century). The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

in 1868 altered the way each state is represented in the United States House of Representatives>House of Representatives. It counted all residents for apportionment including slaves, overriding the three-fifths compromise, and reduced a state’s apportionment if it wrongfully denied males over the age of 21 the right to vote; however, this was not enforced in practice. Some poor white men remained excluded at least until 1965.HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=POZQBGAAQBAJ&PG=PR9>TITLE=THE POLITICS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT: WHY IS IT SO HARD TO VOTE IN AMERICA?

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name=VRA1965}}| In the colonial era, there had been various restrictions on suffrage in what is today the United States. Property restrictions on voting disenfranchised more than half of the white male population in most states.JOURNAL, Voting in Early America, Colonial Williamsburg, Spring 2007,www.history.org/Foundation/journal/spring07/elections.cfm, 21 April 2015, After the American Revolution, the Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote (about 6% of the population).WEB, Expansion of Rights and Liberties – The Right of Suffrage,www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html, Online Exhibit: The Charters of Freedom, National Archives, 21 April 2015,www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20160706144856www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html,">web.archive.org/web/20160706144856www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html, 6 July 2016, BOOK, Kenneth, Janda, Jeffrey M., Berry, Jerry, Goldman, The challenge of democracy: government in America, 2008, Houghton Mifflin, 9780618990948, 207, 9. ed., update,books.google.com/books?id=VQ_iZMofnl0C&pg=PA207, none, ; BOOK, Murrin, John M., Johnson, Paul E., McPherson, James M., Fahs, Alice, Gerstle, Gary, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, 2012, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 9780495904991, 296, 6th,books.google.com/books?id=FGSQOiy6uZUC&pg=PT337, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky were the three states to have full adult suffrage for white males before 1800. New Jersey allowed women’s suffrage for landowners until the early 1800s. In the 1820 election, there were 108,359 ballots cast. In the 1840 election, 2,412,694 ballots were cast, an increase that far outstripped natural population growth. Poor voters became a huge part of the electorate. By 1856, after the period of Jacksonian democracy, all states had almost universal white adult male suffrage regardless of property ownership. Tax-paying requirements remained in five states, and two into the 20th century.WEB, Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World, Yale University, February 2005,economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/sokoloff-050406.pdf,economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/sokoloff-050406.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20160310102314economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/sokoloff-050406.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20160310102314economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/sokoloff-050406.pdf, 2016-03-10, 16, 35, By 1840, only three states retained a property qualification, North Carolina (for some state-wide offices only), Rhode Island, and Virginia. In 1856 North Carolina was the last state to end the practice. Tax-paying qualifications were also gone in all but a few states by the Civil War, but they survived into the 20th century in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island., WEB, U.S. Voting Rights,www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html, Infoplease, 21 April 2015, In 1868, the 14th Amendment altered the way each state is represented in the House of Representatives. It counted all residents for apportionment including former slaves, overriding the three-fifths compromise, and reduced a state’s apportionment if it wrongfully denied men aged 21 and above the right to vote. However, this was not enforced in practice. In 1870, the 15th Amendment granted suffrage to all males of any race, skin color, and ethnicity, including former slaves (freedmen), meaning that male African Americans in theory had the right to vote throughout the United States.David Quigley, Acts of Enforcement: The New York City Election of 1870, in: New York History (2002). Starting in 1888, former Confederate states passed Jim Crow laws and amendments to effectively disfranchise black and poor white voters through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and other restrictions, applied in a discriminatory manner. During this period, the Supreme Court generally upheld state efforts to discriminate against racial minorities; only later in the 20th century were these laws ruled unconstitutional. Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South.BOOK, Schultz, Jeffrey D.,books.google.com/books?id=sfmPmrL0N3kC&pg=PA528, Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: Hispanic Americans and Native Americans, Aoki, Andrew L., Haynie, Kerry L., McCulloch, Anne M., 2000, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-1-57356-149-5, 528, en, BOOK, Scher, Richard K.,books.google.com/books?id=POzqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13, The Politics of Disenfranchisement: Why is it So Hard to Vote in America?, 4 March 2015, Routledge, 978-1-317-45536-3, 13, en, Wyoming was the first territory to enfranchise all women in 1869. From then until 1916, all Western states legalized women suffrage, but few Eastern states followed suit. However, in 1920 the 19th Amendment extended the franchise to women in all states.Ashlyn K. Kuersten (2003). Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents. p. 13. ABC-CLIO, 2003 In 1924 the Indian Citizenship Act gave suffrage to all Native Americans, nearly two-thirds of whom already had citizenship and the right to vote.BOOK, Madsen, Deborah L., The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, 2015, Routledge, 978-1317693192, 168,books.google.com/books?id=-AapCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168, In 1943 Chinese immigrants were given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act. It allowed some Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. In 1962–1964, the nationwide “one man, one vote” electoral system was lawfully established mainly through the Warren Court’s rulings in Baker v. Carr (1962), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), as well as Wesberry v. Sanders (1964).WEB,www.theconstitutionproject.com/portfolio/one-person-one-vote/, One Person, One Vote {{!, The Constitution Project|website=www.theconstitutionproject.com|access-date=24 September 2019}}WEB,www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/one-person-one-vote-a-history/399476/, The Case That Could Bring Down ‘One Person, One Vote’, Smith, J. Douglas, 26 July 2015, The Atlantic, en-US, 24 September 2019, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1986/11/21/nyregion/one-man-one-vote-decades-of-court-decisions.html, One Man, One Vote: Decades of Court Decisions, Goldman, Ari L., 21 November 1986, The New York Times, 24 September 2019, en-US, 0362-4331, In 1964–1965, the 24th Amendment, which abolished the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections, was passed.Transcript of Voting Rights Act (1965) U.S. National Archives.www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897070,00.html" title="web.archive.org/web/20090214180002www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897070,00.html">The Constitution: The 24th Amendment Time. Full enfranchisement was revived in 1965, with the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided for federal enforcement of rights. For state elections, it was not until the Warren Court ruled 6–3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) that all state poll taxes were unconstitutional as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This removed a burden on the poor. In 1971, the 26th Amendment ratified, which granted suffrage for men and women aged 18. Currently 4 million American citizens living in the Territories of the United States do not have representation in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

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| Zimbabwe| 1979| {{date?}}| 1919| 1979| Universal suffrage was introduced in the 1978 Internal Settlement between Ian Smith and Abel Muzorewa. The 1979 Lancaster House constitution agreed to accommodate the nationalists and also affirmed universal suffrage but with a special role for whites. Universal suffrage with no special consideration for race came in 1987. Before 1978, Rhodesia (the name for the region that would become Zimbabwe in 1980) had a merit qualification to vote. This was controversial because it excluded the vast majority of native Africans. Though white women were granted the right to vote in 1919.

See also

• Democracy Index
• Equality before the law
• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• List of women’s rights activists
• One man, one vote
• One person, one vote
• Suffrage for Americans with disabilities
• Suffragette
• Timeline of women’s suffrage
• Umbrella Movement
  • 2014 Hong Kong protests

Notes

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References

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Further reading

• Duong, Kevin (2020). “What Was Universal Suffrage?”. Theory & Event. 23 (1): 29–65.

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