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First in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament as a result of 1905. The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year. -
Limited to local elections. -
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. -
On June 11, 1913, the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) unanimously passed a law granting women full and universal suffrage (the right to vote) in national elections, making Norway the first independent country in the world to introduce gender-neutral universal suffrage. -
Icelandic women gained the parliamentary vote in 1915, but the right was, however, marred by the fact that only women over 40 years of age got the vote. In 1920, lawmakers finally equalized the voting age between women and men. But until 1934, they could still revoke voting rights from anyone who had received public assistance. In 1915 Denmark women also gained full voting rights. -
In 1917, the Netherlands introduced a major constitutional amendment that granted women passive suffrage—the right to stand for election and be elected to political office. While they could be elected to the House of Representatives, they did not yet have the active right to vote themselves. -
Belarus, Estonia, Latvia (as an independent country), Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, United Republics of the North Caucasus, Uruguay (per Constitution), Crimean People's Republic. -
Banat, Bačka and Baranja: Women over 20, Georgia (Full voting rights, First elected Muslim woman), Austria, Azerbaijan (The first Muslim country to give equal rights), Denmark: First four women elected, Germany, Hungary: literate women over 24, Poland, UK to women over 30 -
On April 21, 1944, the French Committee of National Liberation, led by Charles de Gaulle in Algiers, granted women the right to vote and stand for election on equal terms with men. This landmark decision, formalized by an April 21 decree and confirmed on October 5, 1944, recognized the essential role of women in the French Resistance and in the nation's postwar future. -
On March 27, 1948, Belgium passed a law granting women full suffrage, allowing them to vote and stand in parliamentary elections under the same conditions as men. This act, spurred by post-WWII social changes, ended decades of restricted voting, leading to women participating in their first national election on June 26, 1949. -
On May 28, 1952, Greek women were officially granted the right to vote and stand for election in parliamentary elections under Law 2159, achieving full suffrage. While the 1952 constitution permitted this, women did not vote in the immediate November 1952 elections due to un-updated voter rolls, actually casting ballots for the first time in 1953 (local) and 1956 (general).
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