suffrage without the ability for women to stand in elections. was empowered by the British Parliament to amend the voting regulations and allow women to stand for office, if the province in which they resided granted women's suffrage. 1927 Central Provinces became the 8th province in British India to grant suffrage to women. (Soviet Union) (women's suffrage is broadcast for the first time in 1927, in the plebiscite of Cerro Chato) 1928 (franchise made equal to that for men by the Representation of the People Act 1928) 1929 Bihar and Orissa Province became the last of the provinces in British India to grant women's limited suffrage with income and property restrictions. (the right of women to vote is written into the Constitution) (literate women given the right to vote. Equal suffrage granted in 1935.) (limited to local elections only, with restrictions) 1930s 1930 (Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930: limited to white women on the same basis as white men.) (limited to municipal elections). 1931 (Modern day Sri Lanka) (Universal Suffrage) (limited to municipal level for female owners of real estate under Legislative Decree No. 320) (with unequal restrictions regarding level of education) (universal suffrage) 1932 (universal suffrage) 1934 (limited to municipal level under Law No. 5,357) (suffrage is expanded) (Mexican state) (limited to regional and congress elections only) (parliamentary elections; full voting rights and rights to be elected for any public office including the National Parliament, which resulted in 18 female members of the parliament to stand for office from 18 different provinces in the 1935 National Parliament elections). 1935 British Burma (women are granted the right to vote) (equal suffrage at local elections; partial suffrage as part of the UK from 1869, extended in 1918.) 1937 (limited to mothers with legitimate children voting in local elections) (for European women only) 1938 (Soviet Union) (European women) 1939 (with restrictions requiring literacy and a higher age) (women are granted suffrage on equal terms with men with restrictions on both men and women; in practice the restrictions affected women more than men) (white women) 1940s 1940 (Canadian province) (Soviet Union) (as part of Romania, partial suffrage from 1929, extended in 1939) 1941 (limited to European women only) (with restrictions. Full suffrage granted in 1946.) 1942 1944 (limited to property-holding women) (full rights) 1945 (Literate only) French Togoland 1946 French Somaliland North Korea (Americo women only; indigenous men and women were not enfranchised until