The first part of this chapter looks into how the age limits were established as a central figure of thought in parliamentary debates and defined the possible electorate. The age limits contained implicit and explicit understanding of financial and social stability. They were coded in gender terms and reflected un understanding of the transient character of the urban social and cultural scene. Age limits were understood to favour the older, stable married population. The decisions of 1907–1909 increased the male voting age to 24 to the Second Chamber and limited voting rights in other ways. The changing economic situations of the municipalities with rising costs for poor relief and mass education also underwrote the importance of municipal government. The extension of the right to vote had different meanings in town and country. The financial restrictions in municipal elections on the voting age were indirect but politically intentional by the Conservatives. They empowered the older, more stable population while limiting the influence of large industrial interests in the rural communities. It was a conservative reform but with a consensus between Liberals and conservatives around central aspects such as age and other voting restrictions.