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13th December 2015
02:37pm GMT

A woman has won a seat in the Saudi Arabia election for the first time in history https://t.co/f1VnbzZhDE pic.twitter.com/47PTvHqC0D
— i100 (@thei100) December 13, 2015
978 women stood as candidates in comparison to 5,938 men while 130,000 women voted in comparison to 1.3 million men.
In a historic day for the Saudi Arabian kingdom, this was the first time women were allowed to both vote and run for election.