Timeline: Violet RUSHBROOKE: Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

1878 - 1879 (0 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1879	19 Dec 1879: NZ Universal Male Suffrage Universal Male Suffrage was introduced to New Zealand with the Qualification of Electors Act. The Act extended the right to vote (or electoral franchise) to all European men aged over 21, regardless of whether they owned or rented property. This reform, known as universal male suffrage – or, at the time, as 'manhood suffrage' – helped transform New Zealand’s politics in the late 19th century. Maori men had been granted universal suffrage in 1867, to vote in four special Maori seats.