Printed Sources

Neill Atkinson, Adventures in Democracy - A History of the Vote in New Zealand, University of Otago Press in association with the Electoral Commission, 2003.  (History of the Vote was developed by Neill Atkinson, an historian at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, from the book commissioned from the Ministry by the Electoral Commission to mark the 150th anniversary of New Zealand's first parliamentary election.)

Patricia Grimshaw, Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, 2nd edn, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1987

Keith Jackson & Alan McRobie, New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation: Accident? Design? Evolution?, Ashgate, Aldershot (UK), 1998

Leslie Lipson, The Politics of Equality: New Zealand's Adventures in Democracy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948

Alan McRobie, New Zealand Electoral Atlas, GP Books, Wellington, 1989

New Zealand Electoral Compendium, 3rd edn, Electoral Commission, Wellington, 2003

Towards a Better Democracy: Report of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System, Government Printer, Wellington, 1986

Related Links

The Suffragists exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz. Includes a brief history of the suffrage movement by historian Dorothy Page, a timeline, and links to DNZB biographies on 28 women who worked for the vote.

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. This award-winning site contains biographies of over 3,000 New Zealanders, including politicians, suffragists and others associated with New Zealand's electoral history.

Prime Ministers of New Zealand. Includes short biographies of every New Zealand Premier and Prime Minister, from Henry Sewell (1856) to Helen Clark.