the Folketing. (Canadian province) Limited to women over the age of 24 who were literate. (full suffrage granted in 1945) (just after regaining independence) (Soviet Union) (Soviet Union) (limited to women over 30; conditional on ownership of property and qualifications of their husbands. Women over 21 given the franchise in 1928) (limited to women over 30, compared to 21 for men and 19 for those who had fought in World War One; various property qualifications remained; see Representation of the People Act 1918.) The Riksdag introduces equal voting rights in city council and municipal elections. 1919 (limited to voting at municipal level) : universal suffrage to trade union members only. : all adults could vote or be elected, widows and single women who owned property could vote from 1881. (British Crown Colony) Limited suffrage granted to women of twenty-five years or more, who earned £50 or more per year, or paid taxes of £2. (Universal adult suffrage not granted until 1944.) (voting at local/municipal level) (women gain the right to vote in an election, having been given the right to stand in elections in 1917) (women gain the right to stand for election into parliament; right to vote for Members of Parliament since 1893) (Canadian province) (limited to voting. Women's right to stand for office protected in 1934) (US state) (British Crown Colony) (women now allowed to vote and stand for election into parliament) South West Caucasian Republic The Riksdag takes the first out of two constitutional decisions for equal voting rights in elections to the Riksdag 1920s 1920 Albania (the newly adopted constitution guarantees universal suffrage incl. women and the first vote to the National Assembly is held; politically, the women's suffrage is guaranteed already in the Declaration of Independence from 1918, and women vote in local elections in 1919) Kingdom, Princely Indian State in the British Empire. It was the first place in India to grant women's suffrage, but did not grant the right to stand in elections. 2nd of the princely states in India to grant women enfranchisement. (all remaining states by amendment to federal Constitution). In practice, this meant White women; Black persons, both women and men, were largely disenfranchised by unequal literacy tests in many states until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1921 (Soviet Union) , Madras Presidency was the first of the provinces in the British Raj to grant women's suffrage, though there