This paper investigates how the spread of the women’s suffrage movement in early twentieth-century Sweden influenced the social-policy priorities of local governments. Using a novel dataset detailing individual recipients of poor relief in Sweden in 1900, 1910, and 1920---years coinciding with the rise of the suffrage movement---we estimate the impact of the establishment of local chapters of the Swedish suffrage organization LKPR on the distribution of poor relief among different groups of recipients. Our analysis shows that the establishment of LKPR chapters was associated with increased support for unmarried women and orphans but had no significant effect on the number of widows who were supported, likely because widows were already covered by provisions for their deceased husbands. These findings provide new insights into the suffrage movement's broader societal influence beyond the fight for women’s right to vote.