Countries by Women's Suffrage - Statistics

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Year Activists Hint Country % Correct
1971 (1991) 1971 at federal level, 1991 at local canton level Switzerland
81%
1944 Nicolas de Condorcet The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), Olympe de Gouges, was executed by guillotine. France
79%
1917 Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams The first major world power to grant women the right to vote. Russian Republic
79%
2015 Wajeha Al-Huwaider In 2011, women were admitted to both voting and candidacy in the 2015 municipal elections. Men can only vote in municipal elections as well. Saudi Arabia
79%
1902 Henrietta Dugdale The first country to allow women to stand for Parliament. However, Indigenous men and women were disqualified from voting. Australia
74%
1920 Carrie Chapman Catt Nationally granted the voting right to white men and women in 1920. Universal suffrage wasn't adopted until 1965. United States
72%
1947 Eva Perón Argentina
70%
1893 Kate Sheppard The first self-governing colony in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. New Zealand
70%
1918 (1928) Emmeline Pankhurst In 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized in 1928. United Kingdom
65%
1906 Mimmi Kanervo First to grant complete universal suffrage, including for women and landless people. Grand Duchy of Finland
47%
1776 (1797) A U.S. state whose constitution gave vote to all inhabitants who had a certain level of wealth. Women's rights were clarified in 1797. New Jersey
47%
(1985-1999), 2005- Noureya Al-Saddani All voters must have been citizens for at least 20 years. Kuwait
44%
1917 (1927) Paulina Luisi The first country in all of the Americas to grant women fully equal civil rights and universal suffrage (firstly exercised in 1927). Uruguay
42%
1946 Universal suffrage was granted a year after the split from the following country, four years before their war. North Korea
40%
1948 Universal suffrage was granted three after the split from the country above, two years before their war. South Korea
40%
1755-1769 Pasquale Paoli This country was revoked in 1769 as the French took over. Corsican Republic
35%
1918 (1922) Louie Benett In 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized after the separation in 1922. Ireland
28%
1919 Ethel Tawse Jollie Black males qualified for voting right in 1923, it is unclear when black women qualified for it. Southern Rhodesia
12%
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