Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom

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In error, however, her name had been added to the election register and on that basis she succeeded in voting in a by-election – her vote however was later declared illegal by the Court of Common Pleas. The case, however, gave women’s suffrage campaigners great publicity.

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