Timeline of Women's Suffrage - 20th Century - 1960s

1960s

• 1960
  • Cyprus (upon its establishment)
  • Gambia
  • Geneva
  • Tonga
• 1961
  • Burundi
  • Mauritania
  • Malawi
  • Paraguay
  • Rwanda
  • Sierra Leone
• 1962
  • Algeria
  • Australia: franchise extended to Aboriginal men and women.
  • Brunei Revoked (including men)
  • Monaco
  • Uganda
  • Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
• 1963
  • Congo
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Fiji
  • Iran (See Iranian constitutional referendum, 1963)
  • Kenya
  • Morocco
• 1964
  • Bahamas
  • Libya
  • Papua New Guinea (Territory of Papua & Territory of New Guinea)
  • Sudan
• 1965
  • Afghanistan (revoked under Taliban rule 1996–2001)
  • Botswana (Bechuanaland)
  • Lesotho (Basutoland)
• 1966
  • Basel-Stadt
• 1967
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Ecuador (Women's vote made obligatory, like that of men)
  • Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)
  • Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
  • South Yemen
• 1968
  • Basel-Landschaft
  • Bermuda (universal)
  • Nauru
  • Portugal claims to have established "equality of political rights for men and women", although a few electoral rights were reserved for men
  • Swaziland