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Astor sometime after World War One, women were only given the vote about this time. The first woman to be a cabinet minister, that is one who is able to exert some authority was Margaret Bondfield in 1929
Nancy Astor won a by-election on 28th of November 1919, and was the first woman to sit in the house of commons, taking her seat on 1st December. She was not however the first woman elected to parliament.
In the December 1918 general election, a year before Astor, Constance Markievics (The Countess Markievicz) was elected as member for Dublin St Patrick's. She was a Sinn Fein member, and as a party they refused to sit in parliament as a protest against British rule in Ireland. Therefore the Countess Markievicz was the first woman MP, but she effectively resigned her seat before taking it.
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∙ 15y agoLady Nancy Astor was elected as a Conservative MP.
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∙ 14y agoLady Nancy Astor (Conservative) There was a lady elected in Ireland to the UK parliament prior to Nancy Astors election, but as an Irish Republican she never accepted her seat.
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