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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 suffrage to both sexes at the same time. 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. Some women in the Isle of Man ( geographically part of the British Isles but not part of the United Kingdom ) gained the right to vote in 1881. Though it did not achieve nationhood until 1907, the colony of New Zealand was the first self - governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in, but not to stand for, parliamentary elections in 1893, followed closely by the colony of South Australia in 1894 ( which, unlike New Zealand, 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. the rights both 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 ( AI ), in 1991 ; AI is the smallest Swiss canton with c. 14,100 inhabitants in 1990. Women in Switzerland obtained the right to vote at federal level in 1971, and at local cantonal level between 1959 and 1972, except for Appenzell in 1989 / 1990, 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 ). Contents 1 18th century 1.1 1718 1.2 1734 1.3 1755 1.4 1756 1.5 1776 2 19th century 2.1 1838 2.2 1853 2.3 1856 2.4 1860s 2.4. 1 1861 2.4. 2 1862 2.4. 3 1863 2.4. 4 1864 2.4. 5 1869 2.5 1870s 2.5. 1 1870 2.6 1880s 2.6. 1 1881 2.6. 2 1884 2.6. 3 1888 2.6. 4 1889 2.7 1890s 2.7. 1 1893 2.7. 2 1894 2.7. 3 1895 2.7. 4 1896 2.7. 5 1899 3 20th century 3.1 1900s 3.1. 1 1901 3.1. 2 1902 3.1. 3 1903 3.1. 4 1905 3.1. 5 1906 3.1. 6 1908 3.2 1910s 3.2. 1 1910 3.2. 2 1911 3.2. 3 1912 3.2. 4 1913 3.2. 5 1914 3.2. 6 1915 3.2. 7 1916 3.2. 8 1917 3.2. 9 1918 3.2. 10 1919 3.3 1920s 3.3. 1 1920 3.3. 2 1921 3.3. 3 1922 3.3. 4 1924 3.3. 5 1925 3.3. 6 1927 3.3. 7 1928 3.3. 8 1929 3.4 1930s 3.4. 1 1930 3.4. 2 1931 3.4. 3 1932 3.4. 4 1934 3.4. 5 1935 3.4. 6 1937 3.4. 7 1938 3.4. 8 1939 3.5 1940s 3.5. 1 1940 3.5. 2 1941 3.5. 3 1942 3.5. 4 1944 3.5. 5 1945 3.5. 6 1946 3.5. 7 1947 3.5. 8 1948 3.5. 9 1949 3.6 1950s 3.6. 1 1950 3.6. 2 1951 3.6. 3 1952 3.6. 4 1953 3.6. 5 1954 3.6. 6 1955 3.6. 7 1956 3.6. 8 1957 3.6. 9 1958 3.6. 10 1959 3.7 1960s 3.7. 1 1960 3.7. 2 1961 3.7. 3 1962 3.7. 4 1963 3.7. 5 1964 3.7. 6 1965 3.7. 7 1966 3.7. 8 1967 3.7. 9 1968 3.8 1970s 3.8. 1 1970 3.8. 2 1971 3.8. 3 1972 3.8. 4 1973 3.8. 5 1974 3.8. 6 1975 3.8. 7 1976 3.8. 8 1977 3.8. 9 1978 3.9 1980s 3.9. 1 1980 3.9. 2 1984 3.9. 3 1985 3.9. 4 1986 3.9. 5 1989 3.10 1990s 3.10. 1 1990 3.10. 2 1991 3.10. 3 1996 3.10. 4 1999 4 21st century 4.1 2000s 4.1. 1 2001 4.1. 2 2003 4.1. 3 2005 4.1. 4 2006 4.2 2010s 4.2. 1 2015 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 18th century 1718 Sweden : Female taxpaying members of city guilds are allowed to vote in local city elections ( rescinded in 1758 ) and national elections ( rescinded in 1772 ) : 1734 Sweden : Female taxpaying property owners of legal majority are allowed to vote in local countryside elections ( never rescinded ). 1755 Corsica : Female suffrage in the independent republic 's Diet ( assembly ; rescinded upon annexation by France in 1769 ) 1756 U.S. ( still under British crown up until 1776 ) town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts : One woman, Lydia Taft, is allowed to vote in the town meeting 1776 New Jersey ( U.S. state ) ( rescinded in 1807 ) 19th century Portrait of an unknown New Zealand suffragette, Charles Hemus Studio Auckland, c. 1880 -- the sitter wears a white camellia and has cut off her hair, both symbolic of support for advancing women 's rights 1838 Pitcairn Islands 1853 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. 1856 Norfolk Island 1860s 1861 South Australia - Australian colony of South Australia : property - owning women were given the vote. 1862 Sweden : limited to local elections with votes graded after taxation ; universal franchise achieved in 1919, which went into effect at the 1921 elections. 1863 The Grand Duchy of Finland ( Russian Empire ) : limited to taxpaying women in the countryside for municipal elections ; and in 1872, extended to the cities. 1864 Statue of Esther Hobart Morris in front of the Wyoming State Capitol Victoria - Australian colony of Victoria : women were unintentionally enfranchised by the Electoral Act ( 1863 ), and proceeded to vote in the following year 's elections. The Act was amended in 1865 to correct the error. 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 in 1864. 1869 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : limited to single women ratepayers for local elections under the Municipal Franchise Act. ( Partial female suffrage in national elections in 1918 ; universal franchise in 1928. ) United States - incorporated Territory of Wyoming : full suffrage for women. 1870s 1870 United States - incorporated Utah Territory : repealed by the Edmunds - Tucker Act in 1887. May 10, 1872, New York City : Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria C. Woodhull as their candidate for US - President. 1880s 1881 Isle of Man ( self - governing British Crown dependency, with its own parliament and legal system ) ( limited at first to women `` freeholders '' and then, a few years ' later, extended to include women `` householders '' ).. Universal suffrage / the franchise for all resident men and women was introduced in 1919. All men and women ( with a very few exceptions such as clergy ) could also stand for election from 1919. 1884 Ontario ( Canadian province ) ( limited to widows and spinsters to vote in municipal elections ) ( later extended to other provinces ). 1888 United States - Proposed Constitutional Amendment to extend suffrage and the right to hold office to women ( limited to spinsters and widows who owned property ). 1889 The municipality of Franceville in the New Hebrides ( universal suffrage within its short existence. Loses self - rule within months ) 1890s 1893 Kate Sheppard National Memorial, Christchurch, New Zealand New Zealand ( first self - governing colony in the world in which all women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections. However, women were barred from standing for election until 1919 ). Cook Islands ( British protectorate ) universal suffrage. Colorado ( U.S. state ) ( first state in the union to enfranchise women by popular vote ) 1894 South Australia : universal suffrage, extending the franchise from property - owning women ( granted in 1861 ) to all women, the first colony in Australia to do so. 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. By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England. 1895 South Australia : South Australian women became the first in the world to stand for election. This right had been granted the previous year in an act of the South Australian Parliament. 1896 Utah ( U.S. state ) ( reestablishes women 's suffrage upon gaining statehood ). Idaho ( U.S. state ) 1899 Western Australia - the Australian colony of Western Australia 20th century 1900s 1901 South Australia ( Australian state ) ( were allowed to vote in Australia 's first federal election ) Western Australia ( Australian state ) ( were allowed to vote in Australia 's first federal election ) 1902 Australia ( The Australian Constitution gives the federal franchise to all persons allowed to vote for the lower house in each state unless the Commonwealth Parliament stipulates otherwise. South Australian and Western Australian women had been able vote in the first federal election in 1901. During the first Parliament, the Commonwealth passes legislation extending federal franchise to non-Aboriginal women in all states. Aboriginal women have the vote in South Australia in 1901. The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 withdraws any such Aboriginal voting rights for federal elections, providing that, `` No aboriginal native of Australia... shall be entitled to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll unless so entitled under section forty - one of the Constitution ) New South Wales ( Australian state ) 1903 Australia -- The first independent nation to hold national elections where women were given the vote nationwide, was the Commonwealth of Australia. This occurred in all states and territories in the second federal election in 1903, but in 1901 women were able to vote in the first federal election in the states of South Australia and Western Australia. Tasmania ( Australian state ) 1905 Latvia, Russian Empire Queensland ( Australian state ) ( limited to non-indigenous women ) 1906 The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907 Grand Duchy of Finland ( Russian Empire ) ( first in the world to give women full political rights, i.e. both the right to vote and to run for office, 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. New Hebrides : Perhaps inspired by the Franceville experiment, the Anglo - French Condominium of the New Hebrides grants women the right to vote in municipal elections and to serve on elected municipal councils. ( Limited to British, French, and other colonists, and excluding indigenous women. ) The argument over women 's rights in Victoria was lampooned in this Melbourne Punch cartoon of 1887 1908 Denmark ( limited to local elections ) Victoria ( Australian state ) 1910s 1910 Washington ( U.S. state ) 1911 California ( U.S. state ) Argentina ( a doctor, Julieta Lanteri, sued and won the right to vote ) Portugal : Carolina Beatriz Ângelo becomes the first Portuguese woman to vote due to a legal technicality ; the law is shortly thereafter altered to specify only literate male citizens over the age of 21 had the right to vote. 1912 Oregon ( U.S. state ) Kansas ( U.S. state ) Arizona ( U.S. state ) 1913 Alaska ( U.S. state ) Norway 1914 Montana ( U.S. state ) Nevada ( U.S. state ) 1915 This map appeared in the magazine Puck during the Empire State Campaign, a hard - fought referendum on a suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution -- the referendum failed in 1915 Denmark ( full voting rights ) Iceland 1916 Manitoba ( Canadian province ) Saskatchewan ( Canadian province ) Alberta ( Canadian province ) 1917 New York ( U.S. State ) Belarusian People 's Republic Estonia Latvia ( as an independent country ) Lithuania British Columbia ( Canadian province ) Ontario ( Canadian province ) Canada ( limited to war widows, women serving overseas, and women with family serving overseas ) Russian Republic Ukrainian People 's Republic Uruguay ( per Constitution ) Crimean People 's Republic 1918 Michigan ( U.S. state ) South Dakota ( U.S. state ) Oklahoma ( U.S. state ) Austria Canada ( limited to women over 21, `` not alien - born '', and meeting provincially determined property qualifications ) Nova Scotia ( Canadian province ) Germany Hungary ( full suffrage granted in 1945 ) Moldavian SSR ( Soviet Union ) Poland Russian SFSR ( Soviet Union ) Kyrgyz SSR ( Soviet Union ) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( limited to women over 30, compared to 21 for men and 19 for those who had fought in World War One ; various property qualifications remained ; see Representation of the People Act 1918. ) 1919 Afghanistan ( 1 ) Armenia Azerbaijan Belgium ( limited to voting at municipal level ) Georgia Isle of Man - all adults could vote or be elected - Widows and single women who owned property could vote from 1881. Sweden ( legalised, first election 1921 ) Luxembourg Netherlands ( right to stand in election protected in 1917 ) New Zealand ( women have the right to stand for election into parliament ) New Brunswick ( Canadian province ) ( limited to voting. Women 's right to stand for office protected in 1934 ) Minnesota ( U.S. state ) Southern Rhodesia ( British Crown Colony ) ( women now allowed to vote and stand for election into parliament ) 1920s 1920 Albania Czechoslovakia United States ( all remaining states by amendment to federal Constitution ) 1921 Azerbaijan SSR ( Soviet Union ) 1922 Irish Free State ( equal parliamentary ( Oireachtas ) suffrage upon independence from UK. Partial suffrage granted as part of UK in 1918. ) Prince Edward Island ( Canadian province ) Yucatán ( Mexican state ) ( limited to regional and congressional elections ) 1924 Ecuador ( a doctor, Matilde Hidalgo de Prócel, sues and wins the right to vote ) Spain ( limited to single women and widows in local elections. First women mayors ) Mongolia ( no electoral system in place prior to this year ) Saint Lucia Kazakh SSR ( Soviet Union ) Tajik SSR ( Soviet Union ) 1925 Italy ( limited to local elections ) Dominion of Newfoundland ( limited to women 25 and older ; men can vote at age 21. Equal suffrage granted in 1946. ) 1927 Turkmen SSR ( Soviet Union ) Uruguay ( women 's suffrage is broadcast for the first time in 1927, in the plebiscite of Cerro Chato ) 1928 United Kingdom ( franchise made equal to that for men by the Representation of the People Act 1928 ) 1929 Romania ( limited to local elections only, with restrictions ) Puerto Rico ( literate women given the right to vote. Equal suffrage granted in 1935. ) Ecuador ( the right of women to vote is written into the Constitution ) 1930s 1930 South Africa ( Women 's Enfranchisement Act, 1930 : limited to white women on the same basis as white men. ) Turkey ( limited to municipal elections ). 1931 Ceylon Chile ( limited to municipal level for female owners of real estate under Legislative Decree No. 320 ) Portugal ( with restrictions following level of education ) Spain ( universal suffrage ) 1932 First women electors of Brazil. Brazil ( universal suffrage ) Maldives Thailand 1934 Chile ( limited to municipal level under Law No. 5,357 ) Cuba Portugal ( suffrage is expanded ) Tabasco ( Mexican state ) ( limited to regional and congress elections only ) Turkey ( parliamentary elections ). 1935 British Raj British Burma ( women are granted the right to vote ) Irish Free State ( equal suffrage at local elections ; partial suffrage as part of the UK from 1869, extended in 1918. ) 1937 Dutch East Indies ( for European women only ) Philippines 1938 Bolivia Bulgaria ( married, divorced or widowed women only ) Uzbek SSR ( Soviet Union ) 1939 El Salvador ( with restrictions requiring literacy and a higher age ) Romania ( women are granted suffrage on equal terms with men with restrictions on both men and women ; in practice the restrictions affected women more than men ) 1940s 1940 Quebec ( Canadian province ) 1941 Dutch East Indies ( limited to European women only ) Panama ( with restrictions. Full suffrage granted in 1946. ) 1942 Dominican Republic 1944 Bermuda ( limited to property - holding women ) Bulgaria ( full rights ) Jamaica 1945 France Dutch East Indies Guatemala ( Literate only ) Italy Japan Senegal French Togoland Yugoslavia 1946 Cameroon French Somaliland Kenya North Korea Liberia ( Americo women only ; indigenous men and women were not enfranchised until 1951 ) Mandatory Palestine Portugal ( expands suffrage ) Romania Venezuela Vietnam 1947 Argentina Republic of China ( includes Taiwan : with restrictions ) Malta Mexico ( limited to municipal level ) India Nepal Pakistan Singapore 1948 United Nations adopted The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 21 Belgium Israel ( establishment of the state ) South Korea Niger Dutch Surinam 1949 Chile ( right expanded to all elections on January 8 by Law No. 9,292 ) Netherlands Antilles People 's Republic of China ( establishment of the state ) Costa Rica Syria 1950s 1950 Barbados El Salvador ( all restrictions removed ) 1951 Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Nepal Saint Christopher - Nevis - Anguilla Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1952 United Nations enacts Convention on the Political Rights of Women Bolivia Côte d'Ivoire Greece 1953 Bhutan British Guiana Mexico ( all women and for national elections ) 1954 British Honduras Gold Coast 1955 Cambodia Ethiopia Honduras Nicaragua Peru 1956 Dahomey Comoros Egypt Gabon British Somaliland 1957 Colombia ( by Constitution ) Malaya Southern Rhodesia Lebanon ( nationwide ) 1958 Upper Volta Chad Guinea Laos Nigeria ( South ) 1959 Brunei Vaud ( Swiss canton ) Neuchâtel ( Swiss canton ) Madagascar San Marino Tanganyika Tunisia Cayman Islands 1960s 1960 Cyprus Gambia Geneva ( Swiss canton ) Tonga 1961 Burundi Mauritania Malawi Paraguay Rwanda Sierra Leone 1962 Algeria Australia ( universal suffrage Australian Aboriginals men and women ) Bahamas Brunei ( revoked ) ( including men ) Monaco Uganda Northern Rhodesia 1963 Congo Equatorial Guinea Fiji Iran ( after a referendum ) Kenya Morocco 1964 Libya Papua New Guinea ( Territory of Papua and Territory of New Guinea ) Sudan 1965 Botswana Lesotho Guatemala ( all restrictions removed ). 1966 Basel - Stadt ( Swiss canton ) 1967 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ecuador ( women 's vote made obligatory, like that of men 's ) Kiribati Tuvalu South Yemen 1968 Basel - Landschaft ( Swiss canton ) Bermuda ( universal ) Nauru Portugal ( few electoral rights were reserved for men ) 1970s 1970 Andorra North Yemen 1971 Switzerland ( federal level ) 1972 Bangladesh ( suffrage enshrined in constitution adopted after independence. ( For pre 1971 rights see British Raj 1935 and Pakistan 1947 ) 1973 Bahrain ( Bahrain did not hold elections until 2002 ) Jordan Solomon Islands Angola Cape Verde Mozambique São Tomé and Príncipe Vanuatu 1976 Timor Timur ( Indonesia ) Portugal ( all restrictions were lifted after the Carnation Revolution ) 1977 Guinea - Bissau 1978 Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nigeria ( North ) Palau 1980s 1980 Iraq 1984 Liechtenstein 1985 Kuwait ( first time ) 1986 Central African Republic 1989 Namibia * It should be taken into consideration that Namibia never held an election until 1989. Namibia gained independence from the South African government in 1990. 1990s 1990 Western Samoa 1991 Appenzell Innerrhoden ( Swiss canton ) was forced to accept women 's suffrage by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland Afghanistan ( revoked by Taliban ) 1999 Qatar Kuwait ( revoked ) 21st century 2000s 2001 Afghanistan ( re-granted after the fall of Taliban ) 2003 Oman 2005 Kuwait Iraq 2006 United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) ( limited suffrage for both men and women ). 2010s 2015 Saudi Arabia ( introduced along with right to run for municipal elections ) Note : in some countries both men and women have limited suffrage. For example, in Brunei, which is a sultanate, there are no national elections, and voting exists only on local issues. In the United Arab Emirates the rulers of the seven emirates each select a proportion of voters for the Federal National Council ( FNC ) that together account for about 12 % of Emirati citizens. 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Question: who gave women's right to vote first
Answer: the colony of New Zealand