Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894

Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894
Parliament of South Australia
Citation	Constitution Amendment Act (No 613 of 57 and 58 Vic, 1894)[1]
Territorial extent	South Australia
Enacted	18 December 1894
Signed by	Queen Victoria
Repealed	1 January 1935
Introduced by	John Hannah Gordon
Repealed by
Constitution Act 1934
Status: Repealed

The Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894 was an Act of the Parliament of South Australia to amend the South Australian Constitution Act 1856 to include women's suffrage.^[2] It was the seventh attempt to introduce voting rights for women and received widespread public support including the largest petition ever presented to the South Australian parliament. The proposed legislation was amended during debate to include the right of women to stand for parliament after an opponent miscalculated that such a provision would cause the bill to be defeated. Once passed, South Australia become the fourth state in the world to give women the vote and the first to give women the right to be elected to parliament.