Voting Age (Reduction) Bill - a Private Members' Bill - to reduce voting age to 16 and over. Bill does not become law.
Period: 1969 BCE to 1969 BCE
Representation of the People Act extends vote to men and women over 18
Period: 1929 BCE to 1929 BCE
On 30 May women aged between 21 and 29 vote for the first time. This general election is sometimes referred to as the Flapper Election
Period: 1928 BCE to 1928 BCE
The Equal Franchise Act is passed giving women equal voting rights with men. All women aged over 21 can now vote in elections. Fifteen million women are eligible
Period: 1918 BCE to 1918 BCE
Women vote in a general election for the first time on 14 December with 8.5 million women eligible
Period: 1918 BCE to 1918 BCE
The Representation of the People Act is passed on 6 February giving women the vote provided they are aged over 30 and either they, or their husband, meet a property qualification
Period: 1905 BCE to 1905 BCE
Suffragette militancy begins
Period: 1903 BCE to 1903 BCE
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) is founded in Manchester by Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
Period: 1897 BCE to 1897 BCE
Formation of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), led by Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), drawing together peaceful campaign groups under one banner
Period: 1889 BCE to 1889 BCE
The Women's Franchise League is formed and aims to win the vote for married women as well as single and widowed women
Period: 1884 BCE to 1884 BCE
Women campain to be included in the Third Reform Act, without success
Period: 1884 BCE to 1884 BCE
Representation of the People Act (the third Reform Act) addresses imbalance between men's votes in boroughs and counties
Period: 1872 BCE to 1872 BCE
Ballot act: introdution of secret vote
Period: 1867 BCE to 1867 BCE
First debate on women's souffrage in Prliament, led by John Stuart Mill
Period: 1867 BCE to
Representation of the People Act (the second Reform Act) extends vote to urban working men meeting property qualification
Period: 1832 BCE to 1832 BCE
First petition on women's suffrage presented to Prliament
Period: 1832 BCE to
The Great Reform Act had transferred voting privileges from the small boroughs to the large industrial towns
