Founding Elections Under Universal Adult Suffrage

National elections that opened or founded a democratic order by giving the whole adult population a vote in a new or newly reconstituted state. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes the election as the first of its kind under universal adult suffrage for its country. India held its first general election after independence under adult franchise, and South Africa's general election of 1994 was the first in which citizens of all races voted. The group concerns elections as founding moments, not routine contests, and it carries no assessment of the governments that followed.