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Kōrero: The New Zealanders

Women voting, 1893

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Women voting, 1893

In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the vote, and this became a source of national pride. In this New Plymouth scene, women prepare to vote at a polling booth.

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Puke Ariki – Taranaki Museum & Library

Reference: PHO2008-626

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Better Britons, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1922/women-voting-1893 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.