Timeline of Women's Suffrage - 19th Century

19th Century

• 1838
  • Pitcairn Islands
• 1861
  • South Australia (Only property-owning women for local elections universal franchise in 1894)
• 1862
  • Sweden (only in local elections, votes graded after taxation, universal franchise in 1919, which went into effect at the 1921 elections)
• 1863
  • The Grand Principality of Finland was part of the Russian Empire from 1809 to 1917 and enjoyed a high degree of autonomy. In 1863, taxpaying women were granted municipal suffrage in the country side, and in 1872, the same reform was given to the cities
• 1864

• • Women in Victoria, Australia 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.
  • In the former Kingdom of Bohemia, taxpaying women and women in "learned professions" were allowed to vote by proxy and made eligible to the legislative body in 1864.
• 1869
  • United Kingdom (only in local elections, universal franchise in 1928)
• 1869–1920

• • States and territories of the USA, progressively, starting with the Wyoming Territory in 1869 and the Utah Territory in 1870, though the latter was repealed by the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887. Wyoming acquired statehood in 1890 (Utah in 1896), allowing women to cast votes in federal elections. The United States as a whole acquired women's suffrage in 1920 (see below) through the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; voting qualifications in the U.S., even in federal elections, are set by the states, and this amendment prohibited states from discriminating on the basis of sex.
• 1870
  • Utah Territory
• 1872
  • Grand Principality of Finland was part of the Russian Empire from 1809 to 1917 and enjoyed a high degree of autonomy. In 1872, taxpaying women were granted municipal suffrage in the cities
• 1881
  • Isle of Man (only property-owners until 1913, universal franchise in 1919.)
• 1884
  • Canada Widows and spinsters granted the right to vote within municipalities in Ontario (later to other provinces).
• 1889
  • Franceville grants universal suffrage. Loses self-rule within months.
• 1893

• • Colorado
  • New Zealand September 19 (including Maori women; although women were barred from standing for election until 1919)
  • Cook Islands
• 1894
  • South Australia grants universal suffrage, extending the franchise to all women (property-owners could vote in local elections from 1861), the first in Australia to do so. Women are also granted the right to stand for parliament, making South Australia the first in the world to do so.
  • United Kingdom extends right to vote in local elections to married women.
• 1896
  • Idaho
• 1899
  • Western Australia