On the basis of historical materials from the Historical Archives in Ljubljana, newspaper articles and quoted books the author discusses the elections on the territory of the Ljubljana municipal community from the revolutionary year 1848 when the inhabitants of Ljubljana voted for the representatives of the town council, of the Parliament in Frankfurt and Vienna and of the provincial assembly (diet) until the World War I. The Slovene Party finally defeated the German Party in 1882. In 1910 the community electoral law introduced the common (but not equal) right of voting for men and gave the right to vote to women tax-payers and teachers.