'suffrage' is a correct word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the right of individuals to vote in a political election. For example, "The 19th Amendment granted women the right to suffrage in America."
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.
While Beijing has agreed to grant Hong Kong universal suffrage in the 2017 election, meaning that more than 5 million eligible voters will have their say on who is chosen as Hong Kong's leader, all candidates will face screening by a majority pro-Beijing committee.
Yet when Beijing regained control over the city, it promised that the region would be able to elect its top leader by universal suffrage by 2017.
He also opposes women's suffrage, saying "the women of America would do well to consider whether their much-cherished gains of the right to vote, work, murder and freely fornicate are worth destroying marriage, children, civilised western society and little girls".
They claim that Beijing reneged on an agreement to grant them open elections by 2017, and demand "true universal suffrage".
"We remind the GOP of the roots of the party – in equality, in emancipation, suffrage and civil rights".
They faced a smaller group with yellow umbrellas, who demanded "true universal suffrage" and the resignation of Leung, who is deeply unpopular in Hong Kong.
It allows over 5 million eligible voters to cast a ballot for their leader in a 2017 election, a measure Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government argues offers the universal suffrage promised by the city's mini-constitution.
Nobody knew when, or if, the protest would occur, but in August Beijing passed a reform framework to stipulate universal suffrage on its own terms – only two or three committee-vetted candidates who "love the country" would be allowed to run.
The new urgency of the pro-UK campaign saw the return to the frontline of the man who had suffered Labour's second-worst election defeat since the introduction of suffrage.
Honourable intentions have to be supported by what Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal chief whip, speaking about women's suffrage, called 'the force majeure which activates and arms'.
