The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 enabled women to be elected to, sit and vote in the UK House of Commons. Women were previously barred as a matter of common law rather than statute law. It followed the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women over the age of 30 the Parliamentary vote, but not the right to stand. The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act did not put any age restriction on standing, meaning that women could stand at the age of 21, the same as men. Women stood for the first time in the general election of December 1918.
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