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This timeline lists the dates of the first
women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...
in
Muslim majority countries The terms Islamic world and Muslim world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs, politics, and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is p ...
. Dates for the right to vote, suffrage, as distinct from the right to stand for election and hold office, are listed. Some countries with majority Muslim populations established
universal suffrage Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the " one person, one vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion ...
upon national independence, including
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,
Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
,
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, and
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. In most
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countries, women participated in the first national elections or soon following. Some dates relate to regional elections and, where possible, the second date of general election has been included. Even countries listed may not have universal
suffrage Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...
for women, and some may have regressed in women's rights since the initial granting of suffrage.


Timeline


1917

* United Republics of the North Caucasus * Crimean People's Republic


1918

*
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* ( Soviet Republic)


1920

*


1921

* ( Soviet Republic)


1924

* ( Soviet Republic) * ( Soviet Republic)


1927

* ( Soviet Republic)


1930

* (municipal elections)


1932

*


1934

* (national elections)


1938

* ( Soviet Republic)


1945

* *


1946

*
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1947

* (Upon its
national independence Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international l ...
)


1948

*


1949

*


1952

* (An educational requirement). *


1956

* * * *


1957

* (universal). * (Now
Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...
)


1958

* * *


1959

* *


1960

*


1961

* *


1962

* * (revoked)


1963

* (after a
referendum A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate (rather than their Representative democracy, representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. A referendum may be either bin ...
) *


1964

* *


1965

* (first time)


1967

*


1970

*


1972

* (Bangladesh achieved independence on December 16, 1971 and women suffrage was never barred)


1973

* (Bahrain did not hold elections until 2002)


1974

*


1976

* (women allowed to vote in local elections for the first time; at the previous election, in 1972, only male property owners could vote)Pro-plo, Communist Sweep in West Bank Elections: 72.3% of Eligible Voters. Including Women, Particip
JTA, 13 April 2013


1978

* (North)


1980

*


1985

* (first time)


1996

* (revoked by
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) * (first elections held in the territory since 1923)


1999

* * (revoked)


2002

* (re-granted after the fall of
Taliban , leader1_title = Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, Supreme leaders , leader1_name = {{indented plainlist, * Mullah Omar{{Natural Causes{{nbsp(1994–2013) * Akhtar Mansour{{Assassinated (2015–2016) * Hibatullah Akhundzada (2016–present) ...
)


2003

*


2005

* (re-granted)


2006

*


2011

* ( introduced along with right to run for municipal elections in 2015)


2021

* (revoked)


See also

* Rawya Ateya (first female parliamentarian in Egypt and the Arab world) * List of the first female members of parliament by country * List of equal or majority Muslim countries * List of suffragists and suffragettes * List of women's rights activists * Sex segregation in Islam *
Timeline of women's suffrage Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, in which cases women and men from certain Social ...
*
Women in Islam The experiences of Muslim women ( ''Muslimāt'', singular مسلمة ''Muslimah'') vary widely between and within different societies due to culture and values that were often predating Islam's introduction to the respective regions of the w ...


References

{{Feminism Islamic feminism Women's suffrage by country
Women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...
Suffrage in majority-Muslim countries First women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries