page_title: One man, one vote
section_title: Developing countries
hierarchical_section_title: One man, one vote / Developing countries
caption_attribution_description: English: ezMandela in Johannesburg, Gauteng, on 13 May 2008.
context_page_description: One man, one vote expresses the principle that individuals should have equal representation in voting. This slogan is used by advocates of political equality to refer to such electoral reforms as universal suffrage, proportional representation, and the elimination of plural voting, malapportionment, or gerrymandering.
  The British trade unionist George Howell used the phrase "one man, one vote" in political pamphlets in 1880. During the 20th-century period of decolonisation and the struggles for national sovereignty, from the late 1940s onwards, this phrase became widely used in developing countries where majority populations sought to gain political power in proportion to their numbers. The slogan was notably used by the anti-apartheid movement during the 1980s, which sought to end white minority rule in South Africa.
  In the United States, the "one person, one vote" principle was invoked in a series of cases by the Warren Court in the 1960s, during the height of related civil rights activities. Applying the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, the Supreme Court majority opinion led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in Reynolds v.
caption: Nelson Mandela, the 1st President of South Africa (in a fully representative democratic election).
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