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The new Electoral Act, allowing women in New Zealand to vote, was signed in 1893.

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New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote

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In 1893 Kate Sheppard was able to get enough support for a bill to be passed in the Parliament, for Universal Suffrage. An election was only 10 weeks after this event.

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