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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people who are bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others),[1][2][3] while some insist that more inclusion is needed before suffrage can be truly universal.[4] Democratic theorists, especially those hoping to achieve more universal suffrage, support presumptive inclusion, where the legal system would protect the voting rights of all subjects unless the government can clearly prove that disenfranchisement is necessary.[5] Universal full suffrage includes both the right to vote, also called active suffrage, and right to be elected, also called passive suffrage.[6]

Adult citizens There are no distinctions between citizens over a certain age in any part of its territories due to gender, literacy, wealth, social status, religion, race, or ethnicity.

Male is for all males over a certain age in the majority ethnic or sectarian group irrespective of literacy, wealth, or social status.

Female is for when all women over a certain age can vote on the same terms as men.

Ethnicity is for when all eligible voters over a certain age can vote on the same terms as the majority or politically dominant group irrespective of religion, race, or ethnicity.

States have granted and revoked universal suffrage at various times.


Note: this chart does not indicate periods of autocratic rule (when voting has little or no power).


Since historically one group or another might have lost suffrage rights only to regain them later on, this table lists the last uninterrupted time from the present a group was granted the right to vote if that group's suffrage has been fully restored.

Democracy Index

Equality before the law

List of suffragists and suffragettes

List of women's rights activists

One man, one vote

One person, one vote

Suffrage for Americans with disabilities

Suffragette

Timeline of women's suffrage

Umbrella Movement

2014 Hong Kong protests

Duong, Kevin (2020). "What Was Universal Suffrage?". Theory & Event. 23 (1): 29–65.

Limited suffrage in England prior to the 1832 reforms

Finnish centennial celebration

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(1842) by Richard Gardner

An address to the middle and working classes engaged in trade and manufactures throughout the empire on the necessity of union at the present crisis