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Herrenvolk democracies
This list does not include colonies or colonial empires, only nations with full self-government are included.
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1902–1965 | Under the Commonwealth Franchise Act, Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, Africans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders (excluding those from New Zealand) were refused permission to vote. Such laws were gradually repealed until 1965, when the State of Queensland became the last territory to revoke its herrenvolk laws. |
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1861–1865 | All black people were refused citizenship in the Confederacy, being considered slaves. |
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1867–1960 | Chinese Canadians given suffrage in 1947, followed by Aboriginal Canadians in 1960. |
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–1792 | 1792 Convention Assembly was elected by all voters regardless of race |
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1948– | Israel has been described by some to be a herrenvolk regime as Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories are unable to vote in parliament, while Israeli people can |
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1847– | Non-black people are excluded from running in office. |
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1965–1980 | While black people were legally allowed to vote, they were significantly underrepresented with almost all the power going to the white European minority that had ruled the region for decades |
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The successor state gave blacks more representation, but still had white people disproportionately represented in parliament | |
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1910–1994 | From 1910 until the 1994 general election, people of Indian descent were refused to vote in elections, while coloured people were also banned from voting between 1951 and 1994. |
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1516–1869 | The Spanish Constitution of 1812 explicitly forbid people of African descent from voting, which wasn't repealed until 1869. |
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1776–1965 | Black people were not granted voting rights in the U.S. until the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment on February 3, 1870, and further laws against disenfranchisement were continually implemented and repealed until 1965. |