![]() Rhodesia – limited suffrage on the basis of a woman’s husband’s financial means, provided she was not married polygamously.United Kingdom – married women, female householders and female university graduates aged at least 30.Texas (US) – suffrage in primary elections.Canada – federal vote for women of British or French extraction.North Dakota (US) – presidential suffrage.Canada – federal vote for Euro-American women in the armed forces and close relatives of soldiers.Illinois (US) – limited to voting for president and offices created by statute.Victoria (Australia) – full state suffrage.Finland - then a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire (until 1917).Queensland (Australia) – full state suffrage.Tasmania (Australia) – full state suffrage.New South Wales (Australia) – full state suffrage.Australia – white women gained the federal franchise.Western Australia – full colony/state suffrage.South Australia – full colony/state suffrage and right to stand for Parliament.Utah Territory (US) – abolished in 1887 and restored in 1896.Pitcairn Island (in 1856 the population moved to Norfolk Island).New Jersey (US) – propertied women voted in elections from 1787, having had the right since 1776 they lost suffrage when universal male suffrage was introduced.This chronology, which can only be a tentative list, was compiled by consulting a number of sources, some of which offered conflicting information: the dates given may have been for the year that suffrage was granted or the first time that women actually voted while suffrage may have been limited to a specific group of women, this was not always noted. This is especially true for less-developed countries. ![]() ![]() It is very difficult to ascertain when women in a particular country gained the right to vote. This law was enacted several days after New Zealand’s Electoral Act, but Cook Islands women got to the polls first, on 14 October.Ī handful of United States territories and states had enfranchised (European) women by 1893: the Territory of Wyoming in 1869 (confirmed on admission to statehood in 1890), the Territory of Utah in 1870 (annulled by the United States Congress in 1887, reinstated on admission to statehood in 1896), the Territory of Washington in 1883 (declared unconstitutional by the local Supreme Court in 1887), the Territory of Montana in 1887, and the State of Colorado in December 1893.Īustralia was quick to follow New Zealand: South Australia enfranchised women in 1894, Western Australia did so in 1899, and the Australian Commonwealth government followed suit in 1902 (except for indigenous women). Women in the Cook Islands, then a British protectorate, were allowed to participate in elections for island councils and a federal parliament from 1893. The Isle of Man, an internally self-governing dependent territory of the British Crown, enfranchised women property owners in 1881. Although a number of other territories enfranchised women before 1893, New Zealand can justly claim to be the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all adult women.įemale descendants of the Bounty mutineers were allowed to vote for their ruling councils on Pitcairn Island from 1838, and on Norfolk Island after they settled there in 1856. ![]()
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