All men who were householders paying rates, and lodgers paying £10 annual rental, could vote in boroughs. All men who leased land worth £12 per annum or owning land valued at £5 per annum could vote in counties. After similar legislation in Scotland the next year the electorate had doubled, making one in three adult males in England, Wales, and Scotland qualified to vote (only one in six could vote in Ireland). Despite several petitions for female suffrage, and debate within and beyond Parliament , no women were enfranchised by the Bill.

The Manifesto asked for the consideration of eight forms of aggressive alternative action to be implemented if the Chartist National Petition for universal suffrage failed.

The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , began weekly publication in Manchester.

Among the six or seven million women who cast their first vote on this day, only the eighty-eight-year-old Emily Davies remained from the group of women who had first mobilized to campaign for suffrage in May 1866.

Many suffrage groups disbanded after this victory; however, the Irish Women's Franchise League increased in strength and activity.

The province of Alberta in Canada granted women the vote with the passing of the Equal Suffrage Bill, two years before all Canadian women gained the right to vote in federal elections (24 May 1918).

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed consideration by the House of Commons of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.

Margaret Rhondda , as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee , with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms with men.

To mark Emmeline Pankhurst 's birthday, the Suffragette Fellowship Memorial was unveiled in Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street, Westminster, in memory of all those women and men who worked to bring about women's suffrage.