Post by hullenedge on Jul 19, 2014 21:18:20 GMT
Not certain if this is the correct place for this topic but some v.old stuff!
This Halifax lady claimed to be the first female voter (Halifax Courier):-
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The municipal election truce ended in Halifax for the West ward by-election on 13th November 1918. Many new women voters (and some men) were enfranchised by the 1918 Act. Bellamy, the winning Labour candidate, said that he owed his victory to women voting for the first time. It is very probable that Mrs Connelly was the first women voter enfranchised by the 1918 Act however delving back you can find women voters galore from 1868 onwards (local elections only and ratepayers in their own right)mentioned in the local press. Patricia Hollis's 'Ladies Elect' is a v.good read. Even my home town of Elland had a female voter in 1868.
This website is also a v.good resource:-
www.historyofwomen.org/suffrage.html
To think that the 1832 Act disenfranchised women! I'd never heard of Dame Dorothy Pakington.
More recent - 1969! - I'm pretty certain that the first 18 year old to vote was a 6th Form female student at the Bridgwater by-election.
This Halifax lady claimed to be the first female voter (Halifax Courier):-
i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u413/Hullenedge/DinahConnelly22ndApril1965_zps24238076.jpg
The municipal election truce ended in Halifax for the West ward by-election on 13th November 1918. Many new women voters (and some men) were enfranchised by the 1918 Act. Bellamy, the winning Labour candidate, said that he owed his victory to women voting for the first time. It is very probable that Mrs Connelly was the first women voter enfranchised by the 1918 Act however delving back you can find women voters galore from 1868 onwards (local elections only and ratepayers in their own right)mentioned in the local press. Patricia Hollis's 'Ladies Elect' is a v.good read. Even my home town of Elland had a female voter in 1868.
This website is also a v.good resource:-
www.historyofwomen.org/suffrage.html
To think that the 1832 Act disenfranchised women! I'd never heard of Dame Dorothy Pakington.
More recent - 1969! - I'm pretty certain that the first 18 year old to vote was a 6th Form female student at the Bridgwater by-election.