page_title: Timeline of women's suffrage
section_title: 1900s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of women's suffrage / 20th century / 1900s
caption_attribution_description: First Female Parliamentarians in the world were elected in Finland in 1907. Conservative parliamentarians wear black tops, while social democrats wear white.
context_page_description: 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 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 gained the right to vote in 1881.
  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.
  The colony of South Australia allowed women of European descent to vote and stand for election in 1894. In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772. But it wasn't until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as a man's.
context_section_description: 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 Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 gave women the right to vote at federal elections on the same terms as men. Women in South Australia and Western Australia had equal voting rights prior to Federation on 1 January 1901, and were guaranteed the right to vote at the first federal election by section 41 of the Constitution of Australia. Women in the other four states acquired equal voting rights with the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act, which restricted voting based on race but not on gender. The 1903 Australian federal election was the first under the new legislation.
   New South Wales (Australian state)
  1903
   Tasmania (Australian state)
  1905
   Latvia, Russian Empire
   Queensland (Australian state) (limited to non-indigenous women)
  1906
   Grand Duchy of Finland ( Russian Empire) (first in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament as the result of 1905 Russian Revolution). 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.)
  1908
   Denmark (limited to local elections)
   Victoria (Australian state): last Australian state to enact equal voting rights for women in state elections
caption: The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907
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