In urban and rural communes unmarried women who are ratepayers vote indirectly or by proxy, as they choose, since 1862. Indirectly they also vote for members of the Upper House. Women are eligible to the Municipal, Poor, Relief Committees, and the school board of Stockholm since 22d March, 1889. In towns, since 1889, women with children can vote for school inspectors and are eligible to the school boards. In rural communes women who pay the school tax vote on all questions and officers, and women with children, even if they pay no tax, on questions not involving expenditures.
Women are eligible as inspectors.
Secured in 1882 to widows and unmarried women with property. Women are eligible as guardians of the poor since 1889. Since 1890 they must choose from among their near male relatives. Women of the novility, possessing proper property qualifications, may vote by proxy in the assemblies of the nobility. By the law of 1856 all women possessed of the required property qualifications vote by proxy, but are ineligible.