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First country that allowed vote for women
Female taxpaying members of city guilds are allowed to vote in local city elections and national elections, female taxpaying property owners of legal majority are allowed to vote in local country side elections (never rescinded). -
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Lydia Taft
U.S. (Still under British crown up until 1776) town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts:She was allowed to vote in the town meeting. -
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Velez Province
Velez Province in what was then the New Granada Republic (Colombia) grants universal suffrage to men and women. The Supreme Court annulled the provision for women. -
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Kingdom of Bohemia:
Limited to taxpaying women and women in "learned professions" who were allowed to vote by proxy and made eligible for election to the legislative body . -
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Russian Empire
The Grand Duchy of Finland: limited to taxpaying women in the countryside for municipal elections; and then, extended to the cities. -
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Equal Rights Party nominates
New York City: Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria C. Woodhull as their candidate for US-President. -
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The right to hold office to women
United States - Proposed Constitutional Amendment to extend suffrage and the right to hold office to women (limited to spinsters and widows who owned property). -
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New Zealand
first self-governing colony in the world in which all women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Women were barred from standing for election -
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Colorado
First state in the union to enfranchise women by popular vote. -
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South Australia
Australian colony of South Australia: limited to property-owning white women for local elections; universal franchise achieved. -
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Australian colony of South Australia:
Universal suffrage, extending the franchise to all women (n.b. all property-owners, including property-owning women, could vote in local elections), the first colony in Australia to do so. South Australian women became the first in the world to be allowed to stand for election. -
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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. Over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England. -
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Limited to single women ratepayers for local elections under the Municipal Franchise Act.15,16,17,and 18 (Partial female suffrage in national elections.)
United States-incorporated Territory of Wyoming: full suffrage for women. -
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Countries that allowed to vote and stand for election into parliament:
Belgium, Georgia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, New Brunswick (Canadian province), Minnesota (U.S. state), Southern Rhodesia (British Crown Colony) . -
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Irish Free State
equal suffrage granted upon independence from UK. Partial suffrage granted as part of UK -
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Matilde Hidalgo de Prócel
Became the first woman to graduate from a high school in Ecuador, the first woman to vote in an election in Latin America and the first woman to hold elected office in her country, She also sues and wins the right to vote. -
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Spain
Limited to single women and widows in local elections. First women mayors. -
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Women have been limited to local elections in:
Dominion of Newfoundland (limited to women 25 and older; men can vote at age 21), and Italy -
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Women given the right to vote in:
Romania (limited to local elections only, with restrictions), Puerto Rico (women given the right to vote), and Ecuador (the right of women to vote is written into the Constitution) -
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South Africa and Turkey
South Africa (Women's Enfranchisement Act: limited to white women on the same basis as white men.), Turkey (limited to municipal elections).