Uddevalla Suffrage Association

The Uddevalla Suffrage Association (Swedish: Uddevalla Rösträttsförening) was a late-19th-century political movement founded in Uddevalla, Sweden. Local historians and the Swedish Social Democratic Party consider it the first political predecessor of the Swedish labour movement in the province of Bohuslän. Its purpose was to bring about universal suffrage in Sweden: At the time, suffrage in the country was restricted to men and based on personal wealth, therefore excluding most of the urban and rural working class from the electoral process. The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was one of many groups throughout Sweden that helped bring democratic thought into the common discourse and make way for the political breakthrough of the labour movement.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Eriksson, Ulf G.; Klasson, Gunnar (1995). Historien om Uddevalla (in Swedish). Uddevalla: FW-förlaget. p. 134. ISBN 91-972749-0-9.
  2. ^ Hillén, Nils (1988). Uddevalla arbetarekommun 1898–1988 (in Swedish). Uddevalla: Swedish Social Democratic Party. p. 6.
  3. ^ Hansson, Wilhelm; Jonsson, Eric; Lidman, Sven, eds. (1979) [First published 1978]. 100 år med Bohusläningen (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Uddevalla: Bohusläningen. pp. 70–72.