The Dominion Elections Act[1] (French: Acte des élections fédérales)[13] was a bill passed by the House of Commons of Canada in 1920, under Robert Borden's Unionist government.
The Act allowed white women to run for the Parliament of Canada.
[14] This bill was passed due in part to the advocacy of Nellie McClung, a women's rights activist from Manitoba.
Ahead of the 1917 election, the Liberal Party experienced splits among individual MPs.
The 1917 election had the highest female voter turnout out of any other election, and the Unionist Party won a safe majority, with only Quebec voting majority Liberal.