Editing Elections in Kuwait (section)

==Suffrage==
Kuwait has universal adult suffrage for Kuwaiti citizens who are 21 or older. The constitution bars members of the ruling family from running for election to the National Assembly, though the constitution does not explicitly prohibit these members of the ruling family from casting votes. When voting was first introduced in Kuwait in 1985, Kuwaiti women had the [[right to vote]].<ref>{{Cite book|year=2001|title=African Women and Children: Crisis and Response|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|url=https://archive.org/details/africanwomenchil00rwom|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/africanwomenchil00rwom/page/8 8]|author=Apollo Rwomire}}</ref> This right was later removed. In 2005, Kuwaiti women were re-granted the right to vote.<ref>{{cite web|author=Hassan M. Fattah |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/international/middleeast/17kuwait.html |title=Kuwait Grants Political Rights to Its Women |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 May 2005 |access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref>

Kuwait's citizenship law, in theory, gives citizenship to those who descend, in the male line, from residents of Kuwait in 1920.