The project aims to explore the limitations of the political citizenship of poor relief recipients after the democratic breakthrough. When so-called universal suffrage was introduced in 1921, a number of grounds for disqualification remained. Most of those who continued to be disqualified from voting did so because they were regular recipients of poor relief. It was not until 1945 that the right to vote was extended to those on poor relief. By mapping and analyzing how these restrictions were legitimized, practiced, challenged and finally abolished, important empirical contributions can be generated on both the development of Swedish voting rights after 1921, and on how society's economically vulnerable were understood, excluded and defended during a sociopolitical and economically revolutionary period in Swedish history.