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Women leaders accepted a cutoff age of 30 in order to get the vote for most women. [36] Finally in 1918, Parliament passed an act granting the vote to women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5, and graduates of British universities.
This act expanded on the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time after World War I. It is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Reform Act. [2] [3] The 1928 Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men.
In 1832 Henry Hunt became the first MP to raise the issue of women's suffrage in the House of Commons, [5] followed in 1867 by John Stuart Mill. Following this attempts were made to widen the franchise in every Parliament. [6] Women gained the right to vote with the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918 after World War I. This ...
The size of the electorate tripled from the 7.7 million who had been entitled to vote in 1912 to 21.4 million by the end of 1918. Women now accounted for about 39.64% of the electorate. Had women been enfranchised based upon the same requirements as men, they would have been in the majority because of the loss of men in the war. [24]
Party Constituency Name [3] Votes % Position Conservative: Camberwell North: Helen Gwynne-Vaughan: 8,066: 49.2: 2 Conservative: Denbigh: Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick
Although the Isle of Man (a British Crown dependency) had enfranchised women who owned property to vote in parliamentary elections in 1881, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in 1893, when women over the age of 21 were permitted to vote in all parliamentary elections. [8]
The Representation of the People Act 1918, passed on 6 February 1918, extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as the right to vote, to women aged 30 and over who resided in the constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value above £5, or whose husbands did. [3] [4]
The 1907 Act which was seen as a victory for the Women's Local Government Society [2] gave widows and unmarried women the right to stand anywhere in local government. [1] Five women were elected in 1907: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson in Aldeburgh, Edith Sutton in Reading, Sarah Elizabeth Woodward in Bewdley, Sophia Merivale in Oxford, and Mrs Dove ...