# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-10-11T01:36:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

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On October 10, 1911, Proposition 4 was approved by California voters during a special election, making California the sixth state to grant women the right to vote in state and local elections. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Washington had previously adopted legislation granting women’s suffrage. 

Proposition 4, a legislatively referred California state constitutional amendment, passed with a narrow margin with just 50.7% approval. Sacramento County passed the proposition with 51.5% approval and Los Angeles with 55.2% approval while San Francisco County, the county with the lowest level of support, rejected the proposition with almost 62% disapproval. The women’s suffrage movement in California began in the 1860s with the formation of small suffrage groups throughout the state. The campaign grew over the years, especially after the formation of the California Woman Suffrage Association in 1870. 

In 1893, Governor Henry Markham vetoed a bill to extend suffrage to women. However, with increased political pressure, the Republican Party endorsed women’s suffrage in the mid-1890s. The first measure on the ballot to extend suffrage was in 1896, but it failed with only 44% approval. Once suffragists were finally able to get the right to vote as part of the Republican Party platform in 1910, they created another campaign to have a proposition on the ballot. The 1911 passing of women’s suffrage was not a full victory and did not extend suffrage to all women in California. Women’s suffrage was federally recognized 9 years later with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920. 

Newspaper clipping illustrating support for Proposition 4 depicting a woman voting and a “Votes For Women” flag from the Los Angeles Herald, published on October 13, 1911. 

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