10 Facts About Voting age

Voting age is a minimum age established by law that a person must attain before they become eligible to vote in a public election.

In Brazil, for example, the minimum Voting age lowered from 18 to 16 years old in the 1988 constitution.

In Brazil, the age was lowered to 16 in the 1988 Constitution, while the lower voting age took effect for the first time in the 1989 Presidential Election.

The voting age had been reduced in Austria from 19 to 18 at all levels in 1992.

The voting age was reduced when the Bill's provisions came into force on 1 July 2007.

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In September 2011, it was announced that the voting age was likely to be reduced from 18 to 16 for the Scottish independence referendum.

The minimum Voting age is 16 in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Malta, Nicaragua, Scotland and Wales, and the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.

Some countries have variable provision for the minimum voting age, whereby a lower age is set for eligibility to vote in state, regional or municipal elections.

Only known maximum voting age is in the Holy See, where the franchise for electing a new Pope in the Papal Conclave is restricted to Cardinals under the age of 80.

In some cases the Voting age was lowered decrementally, and so the "staging points" are given.