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Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. [ a ] [ 1 ] Astor was born in Danville , Virginia and raised in Greenwood , Virginia.
Plymouth Sutton covered parts of the city of Plymouth, in South West England, and was first contested at the 1918 general election.In a by-election in 1919, it became the second constituency in the UK (and the first in Great Britain) to elect a female MP: Nancy Astor became the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons (the first female MP was the Sinn Féin member Constance ...
Chiepe became the first female directly-elected member in a 1977 by-election [32] Brazil: 1933: Carlota Pereira de Queirós [33] British Virgin Islands: 1965: Emogene Creque [34] Creque was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Eileene L. Parsons and Ethlyn Smith became the first two women elected in 1995 [34] Brunei: 2011: Zasia ...
The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, elected 28 November 1919. [25] The first female MP to become a cabinet minister was Margaret Bondfield who was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929.
22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election. This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament ... Nancy Astor: 21,491: 58.3: 1 ...
The 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 November 1919 [1] for the British House of Commons constituency of Sutton in the city of Plymouth, Devon. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Waldorf Astor , succeeded the peerage as the second Viscount Astor on ...
In 1832 Henry Hunt became the first MP to raise the issue of women's suffrage in the House of Commons, [5] followed in 1867 by John Stuart Mill. Following this attempts were made to widen the franchise in every Parliament. [6] Women gained the right to vote with the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918 after World War I. This ...
Became longest-serving female MP Left the House Party Constituency Notes Nancy Astor: 1919: 1919 1945: Conservative: Plymouth Sutton: CH. Succeeded her husband Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor as MP, after he became a member of the House of Lords by inheriting the title of Viscount Astor upon the death of his father.