<P> While women suffrage was banned in the mayoral elections in 1758 and in the national elections in 1772, no such bar was ever introduced in the local elections in the country side, were women therefore continued to vote in the local parish elections of vicars . In a series of reforms in 1813--1817, unmarried women of legal majority, "Unmarried maiden, who has been declared of legal majority", were given the right to vote in the sockestämma (local parish council, the predecessor of the communal and city councils), and the kyrkoråd (local church councils). </P> <P> In 1823, a suggestion was raised by the mayor of Strängnäs to reintroduce women suffrage for taxpaying women of legal majority (unmarried, divorced and widowed women) in the mayoral elections, and this right was reintroduced in 1858 . </P> <P> In 1862, tax - paying women of legal majority (unmarried, divorced and widowed women) were again allowed to vote in municipal elections, making Sweden the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote . This was after the introduction of a new political system, where a new local authority was introduced: the communal municipal council . The right to vote in municipal elections applied only to people of legal majority, which excluded married women, as they were juridically under the guardianship of their husbands . In 1884 the suggestion to grant women the right to vote in national elections was initially voted down in Parliament . During the 1880s, the Married Woman's Property Rights Association had a campaign to encourage the female voters, qualified to vote in accordance with the 1862 law, to use their vote and increase the participation of women voters in the elections, but there was yet no public demand to women suffrage among women . In 1888, the temperance activist Emilie Rathou became the first woman in Sweden to demand the right for women suffrage in a public speech . In 1899, a delegation from the Fredrika Bremer Association presented a suggestion of woman suffrage to prime minister Erik Gustaf Boström . The delegation was headed by Agda Montelius, accompanied by Gertrud Adelborg, who had written the demand . This was the first time the Swedish women's movement themselves had officially presented a demand for suffrage . </P> <P> In 1902 the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage was founded . In 1906 the suggestion of women's suffrage was voted down in parliament again . In 1909, the right to vote in municipal elections were extended to include also married women . The same year, women were granted eligibility to municipal councils, and in the following 1910--11 municipal elections, forty women were elected to different municipal councils, Gertrud Månsson being the first . In 1914 Emilia Broomé became the first woman in the legislative assembly . </P>

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