General knowledge

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In which year did woment get the vote

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in which country?

[pega]

 in 1918 women here over 30 were given vote

[kempie]

On 28th March, 1917, the House of Commons voted 341 to 62 that women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of �5 or graduates of British universities. MPs rejected the idea of granting the vote to women on the same terms as men.

Women had their first opportunity to vote in a General Election in December, 1918.

A bill was introduced in March 1928 to give women the vote on the same terms as men. There was little opposition in Parliament to the bill and it became law on 2nd July 1928. As a result, all women over the age of 21 could now vote in elections.

[mohill]

The first country to grant the vote to women was New Zealand in 1893.