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Noting that "One person, one vote" is also known as "one man, one vote" and linked to "w:One man, one vote" on English Wikipedia
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The British trade unionist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Howell_(trade_unionist) George Howell] used the phrase "one man, one vote" in political pamphlets in 1880.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Howell|first=George|date=1880|title="One man, one vote"|url=|journal=Manchester Selected Pamphlets|volume=|pages=|via=JSTOR 60239578}}</ref> During the 20th-century period of de-colonisation and the struggles for national sovereignty, from the late 1940s onwards, this phrase became widely used in developing countries where majority populations sought to gain political power in proportion to their numbers.[citation needed] The slogan was notably used by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_resistance_to_South_African_apartheid anti-apartheid movement] during the 1980s, which sought to end white minority rule in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lewis H. Gann|first=Peter Duignan|title=Hope for South Africa?|publisher=Hoover Institution Press|year=1991|isbn=0817989528|location=|pages=p. 166}}</ref>
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