Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Denmark ====
{{See also|Women in Denmark#Women's suffrage}}
[[File:Marie Luplau - Fra Kvindevalgretskampens første dage (1897),.jpg|thumb|Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter [[Marie Luplau]]'s large group portrait painting ''From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage'' (1897)]]
In Denmark, the [[Danish Women's Society]] (DK) debated, and informally supported, women's suffrage from 1884, but it did not support it publicly until in 1887, when it supported the suggestion of the parliamentarian [[Fredrik Bajer]] to grant women municipal suffrage.<ref name="Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon">Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon</ref> In 1886, in response to the perceived overcautious attitude of DK in the question of women suffrage, [[Matilde Bajer]] founded the ''[[Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening]]'' (or KF, 1886–1904) to deal exclusively with the right to suffrage, both in municipal and national elections, and it 1887, the Danish women publicly demanded the right for women's suffrage for the first time through the KF. However, as the KF was very much involved with worker's rights and pacifist activity, the question of women's suffrage was in fact not given full attention, which led to the establishment of the strictly women's suffrage movement ''[[Kvindevalgretsforeningen]]'' (1889–1897).<ref name="Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon"/> In 1890, the KF and the Kvindevalgretsforeningen united with five women's trade worker's unions to found the ''[[De samlede Kvindeforeninger]]'', and through this form, an active women's suffrage campaign was arranged through agitation and demonstration. However, after having been met by compact resistance, the Danish suffrage movement almost discontinued with the dissolution of the De samlede Kvindeforeninger in 1893.<ref name="Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon"/>

In 1898, an [[umbrella organization]], the ''[[Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund]]'' or DKV was founded and became a part of the [[International Woman Suffrage Alliance]] (IWSA).<ref name="Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon"/> In 1907, the [[Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret]] (LKV) was founded by [[Elna Munch]], [[Johanne Rambusch]] and [[Marie Hjelmer]] in reply to what they considered to be the much too careful attitude of the [[Danish Women's Society]]. The LKV originated from a local suffrage association in Copenhagen, and like its rival DKV, it successfully organized other such local associations nationally.<ref name="Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon"/>

Women won the right to vote in municipal elections on April&nbsp;20, 1908. However it was not until June&nbsp;5, 1915 that they were allowed to vote in [[Rigsdagen|Rigsdag]] elections.<ref>[http://www.db-decision.de/CoRe/Denmark.htm Report from Denmark] in European Database Women in Decision-making.</ref>