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1887: In Kansas, women win the right to vote in municipal elections. [3] 1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913. Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators. [32] White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [33] Women in Illinois earn ...
All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. [13] [25] A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]
In 1887, Kansas women could vote in city elections and hold certain offices. [139] The short-lived Populist Party endorsed women's suffrage, contributing to the enfranchisement of women in Colorado in 1893 and Idaho in 1896. [140] In some localities, women gained various forms of partial suffrage, such as voting for school boards. [141]
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
It was the first election held after the end of the First World War, and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment which gave equal votes to men and women. It was the third presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state (the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1940, 1944 ...
After the passage of the primary election law, women worked to reorganize, make sure that women paid poll taxes, and educate voters. [302] [301] [303] The first time women could vote was in May 1918 during the primary elections and between 40,000 and 50,000 white women turned out to vote. [304]
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).