How Many Countries Gave Women Right To Vote Before America?
The United States were at least the 29th country (some countries do not have records, and several countries granted women the right to vote the same year the US did) to give women universal suffrage in 1920, after the Pitcairn Islands in 1838, the Isle of Man in 1881, the Cook Islands and New Zealand in 1893, Australia in 1902, Finland in 1906, Norway in 1913, Denmark and Iceland in 1915, Canada and Russia in 1917, Austria, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the UK in 1918, and Belarus, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ukraine in 1919. Several countries gave women the right to vote temporarily, only to rescind it later and are not included on the list. The dates only indicate the right to vote in any election in which men were allowed to vote – many countries granted women partial suffrage long before universal suffrage.
