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Pakistan is one of the world’s largest democracies, yet it has long ranked near last in female participation in elections. In Wednesday’s vote for a new National Assembly, however, the country’s social conservatism toward women’s rights may have finally been broken – perhaps even influencing the results. An additional 3.8 million women were eligible to vote compared with the last election in 2013. And early counting suggests more women voted than ever before. The cultural shift was most remarkable in traditional areas. Tens of thousands of women cast ballots for the first time, ignoring calls from village elders and religious leaders to stay away from polling stations. The rapid upswing in women voters was not a spontaneous uprising. Rather, Pakistani officials were shocked into action in recent years by the fact that many voting districts saw no women voting at all. A 2017 law now dictates that a district’s vote will be nullified if the female voter turnout does not reach 10 percent. And political parties are required to have five percent of their candidates be women. “Today I feel I’m a complete Pakistani,” one 27-year-old woman told Agence France-Presse after she voted. “I have got my right which had been denied to me since I was 18.”