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NDA 1 2025 GAT, question 70

Topic: Polity and governance

Q70

Placing the earliest first, arrange the following countries in the chronological order in which they granted universal adult franchise:

  1. USA

  2. Sri Lanka

  3. Japan

  4. India

Select the answer using the code given below:

  1. (a) 1, 2, 3, 4
  2. (b) 2, 3, 4, 1Correct answer
  3. (c) 1, 3, 4, 2
  4. (d) 3, 4, 1, 2

Solution.

Answer: (b) 2, 3, 4, 1

  1. Sri Lanka gave universal adult franchise in 1931, Japan in 1945 and India in 1950.
  2. In the USA, voting rights for all adults were secured only with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  3. The order is 2, 3, 4, 1.

Trap: US women voted from 1920, but many citizens were kept from voting by race until 1965, so the USA comes last.