Sentence examples for general suffrage from inspiring English sources

In 1919 general suffrage produced a Social Democratic majority in the city council.

As the narrator comments of one character's wedding speech, it is "rather too densely packed to gain the general suffrage".

The election result is historic in being the worst result for the Social Democrats ever (34,6 percent) in a general election with universal suffrage (introduced in 1921) and the best result for the Moderates since 1928.

"It is hard to believe that following the worst Tory result in a general election in Scotland since universal suffrage that they could have fallen further in people's estimation, but they just have with this appalling and anti-democratic appointment".

African American women, he believed, would have the same degree of empowerment as white women once African American men had the vote; hence, general female suffrage was, according to Douglass, of less concern than black male suffrage.

Despite enthusiastic backing from Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, who called the election plan "a roadmap towards universal suffrage by 2020", it has faced strong criticism from opposition politicians because MPs will not be directly elected.

This partly explains why 97% of Scots registered to vote – the highest level in Scotland or Britain since the introduction of universal suffrage – and turnout was 85%, compared with 65% at the 2010 general election.

In an 1878 essay in The North American Review, the eminent historian Francis Parkman declared universal suffrage a failure: when a man "cares not a farthing for the general good, and will sell his vote for a dollar," Parkman insisted, "his vote becomes a public pest".

In an attempt to quell the general unrest, the system of estates was abolished in the Parliamentary Reform of 1906, which also introduced universal suffrage.

"This is pseudo universal suffrage.

It's called universal suffrage.