Timeline of women's suffrage

Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women and men from certain classes or races were still unable to vote. Some countries granted it to both sexes at the same time.

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• 1718
• 1755
• 1756
• 1776
• 1838
• 1850s
• 1856
• 1861
• 1862
• 1863
• 1864
• 1869
• 1870
• 1881
• 1884
• 1888
• 1889
• 1893
• 1894
• 1896
• 1899
• 1901
• 1902
• 1903
• 1905
• 1906
• 1908
• 1910
• 1911
• 1912
• 1913
• 1914
• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1918
• 1919
• 1920
• 1921
• 1922
• 1924
• 1925
• 1927
• 1928
• 1929
• 1930
• 1931
• 1932
• 1934
• 1935
• 1937
• 1938
• 1939
• 1940
• 1941
• 1942
• 1944
• 1945
• 1946
• 1947
• 1948
• 1949
• 1950
• 1951
• 1952
• 1953
• 1954
• 1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959
• 1960
• 1961
• 1962
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965
• 1966
• 1967
• 1968
• 1970
• 1971
• 1972
• 1973
• 1974
• 1975
• 1976
• 1977
• 1978
• 1980
• 1984
• 1985
• 1986
• 1989
• 1990
• 1996
• 1999
• 2001
• 2003
• 2005
• 2006
• 2015
• References

This timeline lists years when women's suffrage was enacted. Some countries are listed more than once as the right was extended to more women according to age, land ownership, etc. In many cases, the first voting took place in a subsequent year.

Though it did not achieve nationhood until 1907, the colony of New Zealand was the first self-governing country after Soviet Union in the world in which all women had the right to vote in, but not stand for, parliamentary elections in 1893, followed closely by the colony of South Australia in 1894 (which, unlike New Zealand, also allowed women to stand for Parliament). In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772.

In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the first country in the world to implement truly universal full suffrage, i.e. both active and passive suffrage, by being the first country in the world to give women full political rights, i.e. both the right to vote and to run for office. It was the second country in the world and the first in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year.

In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, in 1991. Women in Switzerland obtained the right to vote at federal level in 1971, and at local cantonal level between 1959 and 1991, see Women's suffrage in Switzerland.

In Saudi Arabia women were first allowed to vote in December 2015 in the municipal elections.

For other women's rights, see Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting).