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The Dominion Elections Act [1] (French: Acte des élections fédérales) [13] was a bill passed by the House of Commons of Canada in 1920, under Robert Borden's Unionist government. The Act allowed white women to run for the Parliament of Canada .
The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [9] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [10]
The statute restricted the right to vote to men over 21 who were either born or naturalized British subjects. [27] Amendments from the original text of the bill restricted the franchise considerably, preventing all women, [ 5 ] most Indigenous people west of Ontario, [ 5 ] and those of "Mongolian or Chinese race" [ 6 ] [ 28 ] from voting.
Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in federal elections: 1960. Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in Quebec provincial elections: 1969 [21] First Indigenous person elected to a legislature in Canada: Solomon White, Ontario Conservative Party, 1878–1886 and 1890–1894 (first Native elected anywhere in ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Put your presidential knowledge to the test this Election Day with The Post's commander-in-chief quiz.Today the country votes to elect the 47th president of the United States. Whether you cast a...
The timeline of elections in Canada covers all the provincial, territorial and federal elections from when each province was joined Confederation through to the present day. The table below indicates which party won the election. Several provinces held elections before joining Canada, but only their post-Confederation elections are shown. These ...
In 2016, 42% of white Republicans and 24% of white Democrats felt that Black people were lazier than whites. About 58% of white Americans said “little or nothing needs to be done” to ensure ...