Women's suffrage in Scotland

The campaign for women's suffrage sought to secure the right of women to vote in elections. It was carried out by both men and women; it was a very prolonged and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced on 6 February 1918, which gave some women the right to vote.

One of the first three UK societies supporting women's rights to vote was established in 1867, in Scotland's capital, the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage.