New Zealand First Country to Grant Womens Right to Vote
“First Country to Grant Women the Right to Vote: New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in 1893.”
Summary
New Zealand enacted the Electoral Act on 19 September 1893, becoming the first self‑governing nation worldwide to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. No other sovereign country had extended full voting rights to women before this date.
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- Women’s Suffrage in Aotearoa New Zealand | Ministry for Women
On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow signed a new Electoral Act into law, and New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to enshrine in law the right for women to vote in parliamentary elections.
- New Zealand women and the vote | NZ History
On 19 September 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- Women win the right to vote | NZ History
When the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- Women vote in first general election | NZ History
New Zealand women went to the polls for the first time, just 10 weeks after the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed the Electoral Act 1893 into law, making this country the first in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- Voting rights | Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world where women were able to vote in national elections. New Zealand’s first parliamentary election was held in 1853. Like most aspects of New Zealand’s political system, the right to vote (also called the electoral franchise or suffrage) ...
- The women's suffrage petition – archives new zealand
When Governor Glasgow signed the Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote.
- Women in History: Voting Rights | In Custodia Legis
Australian feminists always claim South Australia was the first place in the world where women could both vote and stand for office (they acknowledge New Zealand’s 1893 vote, women were initially not allowed to stand for office there).
- State of Oregon: Woman Suffrage - International Woman Suffrage Highlights
Australia enfranchises white women, but denies aboriginal women the vote until 1962. The Grand Duchy of Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire and grants universal suffrage.
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