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100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in Sweden

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This year marks the centennial of women’s suffrage in Sweden. In 1921, Sweden became the final Nordic country to allow women to vote when the two-chamber parliament voted in favor of female suffrage on January 26. Finland (while part of the Russian Empire) had granted women the right to vote in 1906, with Norway following in 1907, Denmark in 1915, and Iceland (while part of Denmark) in 1915.

Black and white photograph of the Swedish Parliament in 1905. An ornate government building sits on the other side of a river with a bridge in the foreground. Horse-drawn carriages travel across the bridge.