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There has been universal suffrage in New Zealand since 1893. It had taken two decades of political activity for women to get the right to vote.  |
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In Senegal each eligible citizen is sent a voting card (carte d'electeur) to be presented at the polling station. This insures that elections are not rigged. (By the way this is also the system employed in Germany.)  |
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Spain celebrated 75 years of universal suffrage with a photograph of women voting for the first time in 1931 on their stamp of 2006.  |
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Hugues Capet (938-996) was elected by noblemen and the head of the church to be the King of France in 987.  |
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A referendum was held in the Falkland Islands (in yellow) in March 2013. The Islanders were asked whether or not they supported the continuation of their status as an Overseas Territory of the UK in view of Argentina's call for negotiations on the islands' sovereignty. More than 99% voted yes.  |
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1906 was the year in which women were granted suffrage in Finland. A drawing on the stamp of 1996 shows what it may have been like coming to the polling place.  |
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A photograph shows what a polling place looked like in 1944, the year women got the right to vote in France. (Note: WW2 was not yet over.)  |
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In Japan, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1946 (in part due to pressure from the occupying forces of the US). In the background the capitol (diet) building.  |
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A referendum was held in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1973. The new constitution was approved by 94.5% of voters, with turnout reported to be 95.5%. Women had the right to vote in Burma from 1935.  |
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The Philippines celebrated the golden jubilee of women's suffrage in 1983.  |
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In 1982 voting age was 21 for national elections and 18 for local elections in Belgium.  |
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In 1998 Ireland commemorated the Local Government Act of 1898 by the UK Parliament. It established a system of local government similar to that already created for England, Wales and Scotland. The Act effectively ended landlord control of local government in Ireland. Unrestricted universal suffrage was not achieved until 1928.  |
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