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Kingdom
of Afghanistan
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Year women first granted suffrage
at national level
Notes
1963
Principality
1920
of Albania
Algeria
1962
Andorra
1970
People's
Republic of
Angola
1975
Argentina
1947[39]
Armenia
1917 (by application of the Russian
legislation)
1919 March (by adoption of its own
legislation)[40]
Australia
1902
Austria
1919
In 1962, on its independence from France, Algeria
granted equal voting rights to all men and women.
On September 23, 1947 the Female Enrollment Act
(number 13,010) was enacted in the government of
Juan Peron
Indigenous Australian women (and men) not officially
given the right to vote until 1962.[41]
Azerbaijan
Democratic
1918
Republic
Bahamas
1960
Bahrain
2002
Bangladesh 1971 (upon its independence)
Barbados
1950
British
Leeward Islands
(Today: Antigua
and Barbuda,
British Virgin
Islands,
Montserrat, Saint
Kitts and Nevis,
Anguilla)
1951
British
Windward
Islands (Today:
Grenada, St Lucia, 1951
St Vincent and the
Grenadines,
Dominica)
Belarusian
People's
1919
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Republic
Belgium
British
Honduras
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1919
1919/1948
Was granted in the constitution in 1919, for communal
voting. Suffrage for the provincial councils and the
national parliament only came in 1948.
1954
(Today: Belize)
Dahomey
(Today: Benin)
1956
Bermuda
1944
Bhutan
1953
Limited women's suffrage in 1938 (only for literate
women and those with a certain level of income). On
equal terms with men since 1952.[42]
Bolivia
1938/1952
Botswana
1965
Brazil
1932
Brunei
1959
Elections currently suspended since 1962 and 1965.
Both men and women have voting rights only for local
elections.[43]
1937/1944
Married women (and by default widowed women)
gained the right to vote on 18 January 1937 in local
elections, but could not run for office. Single women
were excluded from voting. Full voting rights were
bestowed by the communist regime in September 1944
and reaffirmed by an electoral law reform on 15 June
1945.[44]
Kingdom
of Bulgaria
Upper
Volta (Today:
1958
Burkina Faso)
Burma
1922
Burundi
1961
Kingdom
of Cambodia
British
Cameroons
(Today:
Cameroon)
1955
1946
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To help win a mandate for conscription, the federal
Conservative government of Robert Borden granted the
vote in 1917 to war widows, women serving overseas,
and the female relatives of men serving overseas.
However, the same legislation, the Wartime Elections
Act, disenfranchised those who became naturalized
Canadian citizens after 1902. Women over 21 who
were "not alien­born" and who met certain property
qualifications were allowed to vote in federal elections
in 1918. Women first won the vote provincially in
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in 1918. Women first won the vote provincially in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1916; British
Columbia and Ontario in 1917; Nova Scotia in 1918;
1917–1919 for most of Canada; Prince New Brunswick in 1919 (women could not run for
Edward Island in 1922; Newfoundland New Brunswick provincial office until 1934); Prince
in 1925; Quebec in 1940
Edward Island in 1922; Newfoundland in 1925 (which
did not join Confederation until 1949); and Quebec in
1940.[45]
Aboriginal men and women were not offered the right
to vote until 1960. Previous to that they could only vote
if they gave up their treaty status. It wasn't until 1948
when Canada signed the UN's Universal Declaration of
Human Rights that Canada was forced to examine the
issue of their discrimination against Aboriginal
people.[46]
Cape Verde 1975 (upon its independence)
Cayman
Islands
1957
Central
African
Republic
1986
Chad
1958
1949
From 1934–1949, women could vote in local elections
at 25, while men could vote in all elections at 21. In
both cases, literacy was required.
China
1947
In 1947, women won suffrage through Constitution of
the Republic of China. in 1949, the People's Republic
of China (PRC) replaced the Republic of China (ROC)
as government of the Chinese mainland. The ROC
moved to the island of Taiwan. The PRC constitution
recognizes women's equal political rights with men.
Colombia
1954
Comoros
1956
Corsica
1755
Chile
Zaire
(Today:
Democratic
Republic of the
Congo)
1967
Congo,
1963
Republic of the
Cook
Islands
1893
Costa Rica 1949
Côte
d'Ivoire
1952
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Cuba
1934
Cyprus
1960
Czechoslovakia
(Today: Czech
Republic,
Slovakia)
1920
Kingdom of
Denmark
(Including
Greenland, the
1915
Faroe Islands and,
at that time,
Iceland)
Djibouti
1946
Dominican
1942
Republic
Ecuador
1929/1967
Egypt
1956
El Salvador 1939/1950
Equatorial
Guinea
1963
Estonia
1917
Although Ecuador was the first country in South
America to grant women suffrage in 1929, differences
between men's and women's suffrage were only
removed in 1967 (prior to that year women's vote was
optional, while that of men compulsory; since 1967 it is
compulsory for both sexes).[42][47]
Women obtained in 1939 suffrage with restrictions
requiring literacy and a higher age. All restrictions
were lifted in 1950 allowing women to vote, but
women obtained the right to stand for elections only in
1961.[48]
Ethiopia
(Then including
Eritrea)
1955
Fiji
1963
Grand
Duchy of
Finland
1906
France
1944
Gabon
1956
Gambia,
The
French women were disenfranchised at all levels before
1944.
1960
Democratic
Republic of
1918
Georgia
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Georgia
Germany
1918
Ghana
1954
Greece
1930 (Local Elections, Literate Only), 1952
(Unconditional)
Guatemala 1945/1965
Guinea
Women could vote from 1945, but only if literate.
Restrictions on women's suffrage were lifted in
1965.[49]
1958
Guinea­
Bissau
1977
Guyana
1953
Haiti
1950
Honduras
1955
Hong Kong 1949
Hungarian
Democratic
Republic
1918
India
1947
Indonesia
1937 (for Europeans only), 1945 (for all
citizens, granted upon independence)
Iran
1963
Iraq
1980
Ireland
1918 (partial)
1922 (full)
In 1947, on its independence from the United
Kingdom, India granted equal voting rights to all men
and women.
From 1918, with the rest of the United Kingdom,
women could vote at 30 with property qualifications or
in university constituencies, while men could vote at 21
with no qualification. From separation in 1922, the
Irish Free State gave equal voting rights to men and
women.
Isle of Man 1881
Israel
1948
Women's suffrage was granted with the declaration of
independence.
Italy
1925 (partial)
1945 (full)
Local elections in 1925. Full suffrage in 1945.
Jamaica
1944
Japan
1947
Jersey
1919[50]
Jordan
1974
Kazakh
SSR
Kenya
Restrictions on franchise applied to men and women
until after Liberation in 1945.
1924
1963
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Kenya
1963
Kiribati
1967
Korea,
North
1946
Korea,
South
1948
Kuwait
1985[51] – women's suffrage later removed All voters must have been citizens of Kuwait for at
in 1999, re­granted in 2005
least 20 years[52]
Kyrgyz
SSR
1918
Kingdom
of Laos
1958
Latvia
1917
Lebanon
1952[53]
Lesotho
1965
Liberia
1946
Kingdom
of Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
In 1957 a requirement for women (but not men) to have
elementary education before voting was dropped, as
was voting being compulsory for men (but not
women).[54]
1964
1984
1918
1919
1959
1961
Federation
of Malaya
1957
(Today: Malaysia)
Maldives
1932
Mali
1956
Malta
1947
Marshall
Islands
1979
Mauritania 1961
Mauritius
1956
Mexico
1947
Micronesia,
Federated States 1979
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Moldova
1929/1940
Monaco
1962
As part of the Kingdom of Romania, women who met
certain qualifications were allowed to vote in local
elections, starting in 1929. After Constitution from
1938, the voting rights were extended to women for
general elections by the Electoral Law 1939.[55] In
1940, after the formation of the Moldavian SSR, equal
voting rights were granted to men and women.
Mongolian
People's
1924
Republic
Morocco
1963
People's
Republic of
Mozambique
1975
Namibia
1989 (upon its independence)
Nauru
1968
Nepal
1951
Netherlands
Netherlands
Antilles
New
Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
1917
Women were allowed to vote since 1917. Since 1919
women were allowed to be voted into the parliament.
1949
1893
1955
1948
Nigeria
1958
Norway
1913
Oman
2003
Pakistan
1947
Palau
1979
Panama
At independence from South Africa.
1941/1946
In 1947, on its independence from the United Kingdom
and India, Pakistan granted full voting rights for men
and women
Limited women's suffrage from 1941 (conditioned by
level of education) equal women's suffrage from
1946.[42]
Papua New
1964
Guinea
Paraguay
1961
Peru
1955
Philippines 1937
Pitcairn
Islands
Poland
1838
1918
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Poland
1918
Portugal
1931/1976
Puerto Rico 1929/1935
Qatar
With restrictions in 1931,[8] restrictions lifted in
1976.[8][14]
Limited suffrage was passed for women, restricted to
those who were literate. In 1935 the legislature
approved suffrage for all women.
1997
1929/1939/1946
Starting in 1929, women who met certain qualifications
were allowed to vote in local elections. After the
Constitution from 1938, the voting rights were
extended to women for general elections by the
Electoral Law 1939. Women could vote on equal terms
with men, but both men and women had restrictions,
and in practice the restrictions affected women more
than men. In 1946, full equal voting rights were granted
to men and women.[55]
Russian
Republic
1917
On July 20, 1917, under the Provisional Government.
Rwanda
1961
Romania
Saudi
Arabia
Samoa
2015
In December 2015, women were first allowed to vote
and run for office. Suffrage for both men and women is
limited to municipal elections.
1990
San Marino 1959
São Tomé
and Príncipe
Senegal
1975
1945
Seychelles 1948
Sierra
Leone
Singapore
Solomon
Islands
Somalia
South
Africa
Spain
Ceylon
(Today: Sri Lanka)
1961
In the 1790s, while Sierra Leone was still a colony,
women voted in the elections.[56]
1947
1974
1956
1930 (European and Asian women)
1994 (all women)
Women of other races were enfranchised in 1994, at the
same time as men of all races.
1931
1931
Sudan
1964
Suriname
1948
Swaziland
1968
Sweden
1921
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1971 at federal level, 1959­1991 at
Switzerland
local canton level
Syria
1949
Taiwan
1947
Tajik SSR
1924
Tanzania
1959
Thailand
1932
Timor­
Leste
1945
Tonga
1960
1925
Tunisia
1957
Turkey
1930 (for local elections), 1934 (for
national elections)
Turkmen
SSR
In 1945, Taiwan was return from Japan to China. In
1947, women won the suffrage under the Constitution
of the Republic of China. In 1949, Republic of
China(ROC) lost mainland China, moved to Taiwan.
1976
Togo
Trinidad
and Tobago
Women obtained the right to vote in national elections
in 1971.[57] Women obtained the right to vote at local
canton level between 1959 (Vaud and Neuchâtel in that
year) and 1991 (Appenzell Innerrhoden).[58][59] See
also Women's suffrage in Switzerland.
Suffrage was granted for the first time in 1925 to either
sex, to men over the age of 21 and women over the age
of 30, as in Great Britain (the "Mother Country", as
Trinidad and Tobago was still a colony at the time)[60]
In 1945 full suffrage was granted to women.[61]
1924
Tuvalu
1967
Uganda
1962
Ukrainian
SSR
1919
United
Arab Emirates
2006
Limited suffrage for both men and women.[62][63]
United
Kingdom
1918 (partial) (Then including Ireland)
1928 (full)
From 1918–1928, women could vote at 30 with
property qualifications or as graduates of UK
universities, while men could vote at 21 with no
qualification.
United
States
1920
Although legally entitled to vote, blacks were
effectively denied voting rights in numerous Southern
states until 1965.
1936
Beginning in 1936 women could vote; however, this
vote, as with men, was limited to those who could
prove they had an income of $300 per year or more.
1917/1927
Women's suffrage was broadcast for the first time in
1927, in the plebiscite of Cerro Chato.[64]
United
States Virgin
Islands
Uruguay
Uzbek SSR 1938
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Uzbek SSR 1938
Vanuatu
1975
Vatican City No voting
Venezuela
1946
Vietnam
1946
North
Yemen (Today:
The Pope, elected by the all­male College of Cardinals
through a secret ballot, is the head of the Catholic
Church, and exercises ex officio supreme legislative,
executive, and judicial power over the State of the
Vatican City.[65]
1970
Yemen)
South
Yemen (Today:
1967
Yemen)
Zambia
Southern
Rhodesia
(Today:
Zimbabwe)
1962 (then Northern Rhodesia)
Women's suffrage granted in Northern Rhodesia in
1962.[66]
1919
Yugoslavia
(Today: Serbia,
Montenegro,
Croatia, Slovenia, 1945
Bosnia and
Herzegovina,
Macedonia)
Limited voting rights only for (in cases only high)
socialist party members since Yugoslavia was a single­
party totalitarian state
By country
Africa
Sierra Leone
Women won the right to vote in Sierra Leone in 1930.[67]
South Africa
The franchise was extended to white women 21 years or older by the Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930. The
first general election at which women could vote was the 1933 election. At that election Leila Reitz (wife of
Deneys Reitz) was elected as the first female MP, representing Parktown for the South African Party. The limited
voting rights available to non­white men in the Cape Province and Natal (Transvaal and the Orange Free State
practically denied all non­whites the right to vote, and had also done so to non­Afrikaner uitlanders when
independent in the 1800s) were not extended to women, and were themselves progressively eliminated between
1936 and 1968.
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