Federal Council election 2006

In the 2006 Federal Council elections on June 14, 2006, Doris Leuthard ( CVP ) was elected by the United Federal Assembly as a replacement for the resigned Joseph Deiss in the Swiss Federal Council. She had been officially proposed by the parliamentary group of her party and was elected in the first ballot with an absolute majority of 118 votes with 133 votes.

		1st ballot
ballot papers distributed		242
ballot papers received		242
empty / invalid		5/3
valid total		234
absolute more		118
	Doris Leuthard	133
	Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi	29
	Lucrezia Meier-Schatz	28
	Carlo Schmid-Sutter	11
various		33

Web links

• The 2006 replacement election on the website of the Swiss Federal Assembly