In this chapter, the social and economic developments that challenged the political order created in the 1860s exposed the complexity of the suffrage issue. The growth of the urban population and the improved economic position of the working class were reflected in the debate, as was the complex relationship between municipal suffrage and the right to vote in elections to the Second Chamber. The constitution established in the mid-eighteenth century contained extensive limitations to voting rights combined with a relatively low age of 21. The Social Democrats’ solution was to give all men equal and universal suffrage from age 21, in local and in elections to the Riksdag. On the other hand, the Liberals and the Conservatives had the political power. Faced with the popular demands for suffrage reform, they discussed different ways to modify the voting rules and the relatively extensive restrictions on the future electorate by means of adjusted voting thresholds with the ambition to accommodate the opposition and retain a guaranteed political influence. It is in this context that the issue of the voting age became an explicit feature of political discussions as a means of limiting the impact of the urban working-class electorate and, indeed, the general weight of the cities in the political system