Women Vote In The World

By Rodolfo A. Juarez Escudero
  • 17 Century

    17 Century

    Female landowners are allowed to vote in elections to the States of Friesland in rural districts. In Friesland.
  • 18th Century

    18th Century

    Sweden: Female taxpaying members of city guilds are allowed to vote in local city elections and national elections
  • 19th Century

    19th Century

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Local Government Act confirms single women's right to vote in local elections and extends this franchise to some married women.
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    Portugal: Carolina Beatriz Ângelo becomes the first Portuguese woman to vote due to a legal technicality; the law is shortly thereafter altered to specify only literate male citizens over the age of 21 had the right to vote.
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    Canada: Limited to women over 21, meeting provincially determined property qualifications
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    Spain (limited to single women and widows in local elections. First women mayors)
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    Uruguay (women's suffrage is broadcast for the first time in 1927.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    United Nations adopted The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 21.
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    Guatemala all restrictions removed
  • 21st Century

    21st Century

    Afghanistan, re-granted after the fall of Taliban