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Switzerland Woman Voting Rights, 1959 (b/w photo)

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Switzerland Woman Voting Rights, 1959 (b/w photo)
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black and white photograph
Date
1959 AD (C20th AD)
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The women of the Vaud municipalities of Lucens and Commugny are the first French-speaking Swiss women to be able to participate in the public life of their municipalities. They meet with the men at the polling station at the weekend to elect a new local council. The first women with voting rights in Western Switzerland, taken on 19 April 1959 during the ballot in the municipality of Commugny in the district of Nyon, where a local council was elected in the first ballot, whose candidacy had been nominated by a woman.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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Switzerland / Europe / urn / womanhood / women's movement / Voting right / suffrage / voting / vote / choose / ballot / choice / ballot / Vocal office / Voting site / election office / polling station / National law / emancipation / women's right to vote / local elections / Voice envelope / municipal / electoral / municipal / municipality / elections / vote / woman / man / Commugny
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