means The right to vote in political elections.

from From Latin suffragium, meaning a vote or the right to vote, and also the supportive cry of approval given at an assembly. The deeper roots are debated — some link it to suffragari, to vote for or support a candidate, and folk-tradition fancifully connects it to the noise of shouting backers. By the time it reached English in the 15th century via Latin and French, it carried the sense of casting a vote, and centuries later it became the rallying word of those demanding the franchise be extended.