Secret Ballot - Chronology of Introduction

Chronology of Introduction

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Date Country Notes
1795 (August 22) France
1849 Netherlands
1853 Colombia
1856 (February 7) Australia (Tasmania) The other Australian states of Victoria (March 19, 1856), South Australia (April 2, 1856), New South Wales (1858), Queensland (1859), and Western Australia (1877) followed.
1861 Italy
1861 Ecuador
1866 Sweden Voter chooses party-specific ballot in the open, limiting the secrecy. There is, however, the possibility to choose a blank ballot on which you can choose any party in complete secrecy.
1870 New Zealand
1872 United Kingdom In the UK this was passed by the Ballot Act 1872, but is no longer the case by virtue of Schedule 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, as mentioned above.
1872 Switzerland
1874 Canada
1877 Belgium
1885 Norway
1891 United States of America Massachusetts was the first state to hold a secret ballot, in 1888, and Kentucky was the last to do so, in 1891.
1901 Denmark In connection with The Shift of Government (Danish: Systemskiftet)
1906 Russia
1907 Austria
1907 Finland
1912 Argentina
1918 Poland
1918 Uruguay
1919 Romania
1925 Costa Rica
1931 Peru
1932 Brazil
1946 Venezuela
1947 Hungary
1950 Turkey
1950 El Salvador

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