Results of the local elections in Bern

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The table shows the results of the local elections in Bern .

Parties and political groupings

  • AL: Alternative left
  • AP: Autopartei , renamed → FPS in 1994
  • ARP: Workers 'and pensioners' party, from 1995 term for the merger → VK / RSM
  • BDP: Civil Democratic Party , since 2008
  • BGB: Citizens 'Party of the City of Bern (City of Bern section of the farmers, trade and citizens' party ), since 1919, 1920 candidacy for the → VBL, before 1959 including → CSP, from 1971 → SVP
  • BHB: Swiss farmers' homeland movement (also known as “young farmers”), smallholder protest movement from the 1930s. Your only representative on the city council may have had some affinity with frontism .
  • CSP: Stadtberner section of the Conservative-Christian Social People's Party (former name of CVP Switzerland), before 1959 candidacy on lists of → BGB, 1971 renamed → CVP
  • CVP: Christian Democratic People's Party , since 1971 (renaming of the → CSP), including the list “Die Liberalsozialen” in the 2008 city council election
  • DA: Democratic Alternative, 1989 renamed → GPB-DA
  • DP: Democratic Party , took part in municipal elections in 1943 and 1947, candidacy on the list of the FDP in 1951
  • EDU: Federal Democratic Union
  • EPP: Evangelical People's Party , since 1919, previously → PVCB
  • FDP: FDP. The Liberals , until 2009 Liberal Democratic Party (including young liberals )
  • FPS: Freedom Party of Switzerland (name of the auto party from 1994 to 2009)
  • FWB: Freiwirtschaftsbund der Stadt Bern (1935–1946), joined the → LSP in 1946 after the Swiss FWB was split up
  • GB: Green Alliance , founded in 1987 as an association of → SAP, → POCH members and people from various new social movements
  • GFL: Green Free List , since 1997 (renamed → JBFL)
  • glp: Green Liberal Party (including Young Green Liberals), since 2008
  • GPB-DA: Green Party Bern - Democratic Alternative (since 2017 Green alternative party GaP), radical green , radical democratic party
  • Grütli: Grütliverein , ran in 1920 and 1921 under the name "Social Democratic People's Party / Grütliverein" on its own list for the city council
  • Härd: Härdlütli , 1971 list of young people from the alternative, non-conformist, hippie-related art scene .
  • Hofer: List Jimy Hofer, list started in 2008 by Jimy Hofer, founder of the Berner Motorcycle Club Broncos and local fame, made a name for himself above all with law and order topics and support for the concerns of motorists . Candidate again unsuccessfully in 2016 under the name “Mir si Bärn” (“We are Bern”).
  • YES !: Young Alternative , left-wing alternative youth party, since 2020 City Bern section of the Young Green Canton of Bern
  • JB: Young Bern, a center-left group founded in the 1950s, joined the Free List of Canton Bern in 1991 and renamed itself → JBFL, since 1997 → GFL
  • JBFL: Young Bern Free List, name of the → JB after it joined the Free List Canton of Bern in 1991 , renamed → GFL in 1997
  • KDP: Conservative-Democratic Party, emerged in 1898 from the → VK (reconstruction and change of the designation of the 1904 nomination), 1920 candidacy for the → VBL, 1921 affiliation with → BGB
  • LdU: State ring of the independents (1937–1998), 1998 dissolution of the Bern local group and transfer of the authorities to the → GFL
  • LSP: Liberal Socialist Party , successor to the → FWB, representative of free economic ideas, dissolution at the end of the 1950s
  • Middle: “Die Mitte - Together for Bern”, a list that appeared in 2008 in support of the FDP councilor Stephan Hügli, who was not nominated again by his party. Its only councilor later joined the → glp
  • NA: National Action for People and Homeland, 1990 renamed Swiss Democrats (→ SD)
  • PdA: Labor Party
  • POCH: Progressive organizations in Switzerland , active in the city of Bern since 1973/74, at the end of the 1980s many members moved to → GB, 1990 merger of the rest of the party with → GPB / DA
  • PVCB: Political Association of Christian Citizens, founded in 1917 by religious-Protestant members of the → KDP, was incorporated into the → EPP in 1919
  • SAP: Socialist Labor Party , originally Trotskyist group, 1987 co-founder of → GB
  • SD: Swiss Democrats
  • SP: Social Democratic Party (including Young Socialists ), before 1890: representatives of various workers 'associations on the list of the → VF (joint faction until 1892), 1890–1899 Workers' Union and Social Democratic Party
  • SVP: Swiss People's Party , since 1971 (renaming of → BGB)
  • VBL: United bourgeois list, electoral coalition of → BGB and → KDP in the city council elections in 1920
  • VF: United Liberals of the City of Bern, from 1895 → FDP
  • VK: United Conservatives of the City of Bern, electoral coalition of the traditional patrician city conservatives ( Otto von Büren ), the Stadtberner supporters of Ulrich Dürrenmatt and the liberal-conservative Association of Independents ( Edmund von Steiger ), 1898 founding of the → KDP
  • VK / RSM: Representatives of the low-income earners / pensioners also speak with (1990–1995), the two groups each ran for the city council elections and merged in 1995 to form the → ARP

Municipal Council (Executive)

The names of the municipal councils since 1920 can be found in the article Municipal Council (Bern) .

1888–1920 (9 members, majority )

Political party 1888 1891 1895 1899 1903 1907 1911 1915 Political party
VF / FDP 8th 7th 6th 5 5 5 5 5 VF / FDP
VK / KDP 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 VK / KDP
SP 1 2 2 2 3 3 SP

1920–2004 (7 members, proportional )

Political party 1920 1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 Political party
SP 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4th 4th 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 SP
FDP 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 FDP
BGB / SVP 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BGB / SVP
JB / GFL 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 JB / GFL
LdU 1 1 LdU
CVP 1 1 1 1 1 CVP
GB 1 1 1 GB
independent 1 1 independent

From 2004 (5 members, proportional)

Political party 2004 2008 2012 2016
SP 2 2 2 2
GB 1 1 1 1
CVP 1 1 1
GFL 1
FDP 2 1 1

City Council (Legislative)

Distribution of seats 1888–1910

From 1888 to 1910 (apart from the first city council elections on January 29, 1888) a quarter of the city council members (20 seats) were elected every year in a renewal election. The table below shows the overall composition of the city council. Until 1894 the elections took place in the majority system , then in the proportional system. The meaning of the party abbreviations and information about the parties can be found above .

Political party 1888 1 1888 1 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Political party
SP 10 10 4th 3 3 4th 4th 7th 10 15th 22nd 25th 24 25th 24 24 25th 26th 28 30th 31 32 34 34 SP
VF / FDP 50 50 56 57 57 55 55 55 53 48 42 36 36 36 36 37 37 35 35 33 33 34 33 35 VF / FDP
VK / KDP 20th 20th 20th 20th 20th 21st 21st 18th 17th 17th 16 19th 20th 19th 20th 19th 18th 19th 17th 17th 16 14th 13 11 VK / KDP
11888 took place on January 29th the constituent elections and the first regular city council elections on December 16.

Distribution of seats 1911–1929

From 1888 to 1910, half of the city council members (40 seats) were elected every two years in a renewal election. The table below shows the overall composition of the city council. The meaning of the party abbreviations and information about the parties can be found above .

Political party 1911 1913 1915 1917 1920 2 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 Political party
SP 36 35 37 42 41 38 38 38 40 41 SP
FDP 35 36 34 28 20th 15th 18th 21st 22nd 21st FDP
VBL / BGB 16 23 22nd 19th 16 16 VBL / BGB
KDP 9 9 9 9 KDP
PVCB / EVP 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 PVCB / EVP
Grütli 1 2 Grütli
2 The city council elections in 1919 were postponed to 1920 in view of the new municipal regulations ("municipal constitution").

Allocation of seats since 1931

Since 1931, the entire city council (80 seats) has been re-elected every four years. The table is sorted by default according to the total number of seats won by the respective party since 1931 (i.e. according to the approximate importance of the party over the entire period). The meaning of the party abbreviations and information about the parties can be found above .

Political party 1931 1935 1939 3 1943 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1976 4 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 Political party
SP 39 39 38 39 33 35 37 37 35 33 33 27 27 23 20th 23 28 28 24 20th 23 24 SP
FDP 21st 19th 18th 15th 18th 18th 16 17th 17th 16 17th 16 17th 18th 17th 15th 15th 18th 15th 10 8th 9 FDP
BGB / SVP 18th 18th 17th 19th 17th 17th 16 10 10 8th 9 9 9 7th 8th 8th 8th 11 10 8th 10 9 BGB / SVP
JB / GFL 2 4th 4th 5 5 7th 6th 6th 7th 5 4th 5 10 9 8th 8th JB / GFL
LdU 2 3 6th 5 5 6th 7th 11 7th 5 3 3 2 2 2 LdU
GB 4th 6th 7th 6th 8th 8th 9 9 GB
CSP / CVP 4th 5 5 4th 5 5 4th 4th 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 CSP / CVP
EPP 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4th 4th 4th 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 EPP
NA / SD 4th 4th 9 7th 4th 4th 3 2 1 NA / SD
glp 4th 7th 8th glp
DA / GPB-DA 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 DA / GPB-DA
BDP 6th 7th 3 BDP
FWB / LSP 2 2 2 2 2 2 FWB / LSP
YES! 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 YES!
POCH 2 3 4th 2 POCH
AP / FPS 4th 5 2 AP / FPS
PdA 2 1 1 1 1 1 PdA
VK / RSM / ARP 2 2 1 1 VK / RSM / ARP
EDU 1 1 1 1 1 EDU
AL 1 2 AL
Hofer 2 Hofer
DP 1 1 DP
center 1 center
SAP 1 SAP
Hard 1 Hard
BHB 1 BHB
3 Silent election after the outbreak of war
4th The legislative period 1971–1975 was extended by one year so that the municipal elections no longer take place in the same year as the federal parliamentary elections.

Allocation of seats since 1888: graphic representation

For the period 1888–1931, only the election results of those years in which the municipal council was elected at the same time are shown.

1888
10
50
20th
10 50 20th 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 10
  • VF : 50
  • UK : 20


 1891
3
57
20th
3 57 20th 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 3
  • VF : 57
  • UK : 20


 1895
10
53
17th
10 53 17th 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 10
  • FDP : 53
  • UK : 17


 1899
24
36
20th
24 36 20th 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 24
  • FDP : 36
  • VK / KDP : 20
1903
25th
37
18th
25th 37 18th 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 25
  • FDP : 37
  • VK / KDP : 18


 1907
31
33
16
31 33 16 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 31
  • FDP : 33
  • KDP : 16


 1911
36
35
9
36 35 9 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 36
  • FDP : 35
  • KDP : 9


 1915
37
34
9
37 34 9 
A total of 80 seats
  • SP : 37
  • FDP : 34
  • KDP : 9
1920
41
1
2
20th
16
41 1 2 20th 16 
A total of 80 seats


1923
38
2
18th
22nd
38 2 18th 22nd 
A total of 80 seats


1927
40
2
22nd
16
40 2 22nd 16 
A total of 80 seats


1931
39
2
21st
18th
39 2 21st 18th 
A total of 80 seats


1935
39
2
2
19th
18th
39 2 2 19th 18th 
A total of 80 seats


1939
38
2
2
2
18th
17th
1
38 2 2 2 18th 17th 1 
A total of 80 seats


1943
39
2
3
1
1
15th
19th
39 2 3 1 1 15th 19th 
A total of 80 seats


1947
2
33
2
6th
1
1
18th
17th
2 33 2 6th 1 1 18th 17th 
A total of 80 seats


1951
1
35
2
5
2
18th
17th
1 35 2 5 2 18th 17th 
A total of 80 seats


1955
37
2
2
5
2
16
16
37 2 2 5 2 16 16 
A total of 80 seats


1959
37
4th
6th
2
4th
17th
10
37 4th 6th 2 4th 17th 10 
A total of 80 seats


1963
35
4th
7th
2
5
17th
10
35 4th 7th 2 5 17th 10 
A total of 80 seats


1967
33
5
11
2
5
16
8th
33 5 11 2 5 16 8th 
A total of 80 seats


1971
1
33
5
7th
4th
4th
17th
9
1 33 5 7th 4th 4th 17th 9 
A total of 80 seats


1976
2
1
27
7th
5
4th
5
16
9
4th
2 1 27 7th 5 4th 5 16 9 4th 
A total of 80 seats


1980
3
2
27
6th
3
4th
5
17th
9
4th
3 2 27 6th 3 4th 5 17th 9 4th 
A total of 80 seats


1984
4th
2
1
23
6th
3
3
4th
17th
9
9
4th 2 1 23 6th 3 3 4th 17th 9 9 
A total of 81 seats


1988
2
2
4th
20th
7th
2
2
4th
17th
8th
1
4th
7th
2 2 4th 20th 7th 2 2 4th 17th 8th 1 4th 7th 
A total of 80 seats


1992
2
7th
23
5
2
3
3
15th
8th
1
5
2
4th
2 7th 23 5 2 3 3 15th 8th 1 5 2 4th 
A total of 80 seats


1996
1
9
28
4th
2
2
2
15th
8th
1
2
2
4th
1 9 28 4th 2 2 2 15th 8th 1 2 2 4th 
A total of 80 seats


2000
1
8th
28
5
2
3
18th
11
1
3
1 8th 28 5 2 3 18th 11 1 3 
A total of 80 seats


2004
1
1
10
24
10
2
3
15th
10
1
1
2
1 1 10 24 10 2 3 15th 10 1 1 2 
A total of 80 seats


2008
1
2
10
20th
9
2
5
3
6th
10
8th
2
1
1
1 2 10 20th 9 2 5 3 6th 10 8th 2 1 1 
A total of 80 seats


2012
1
1
1
10
23
8th
2
7th
2
7th
8th
10
1 1 1 10 23 8th 2 7th 2 7th 8th 10 
A total of 80 seats


2016
1
2
1
11
24
8th
2
8th
2
3
9
9
1 2 1 11 24 8th 2 8th 2 3 9 9 
A total of 80 seats


Voting shares since 1992

The table below gives an overview of the voter share of political parties and groups since 1992. The meaning of the party abbreviations and information on the parties can be found above .

Political party 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
SP 27.4% 32.8% 34.1% 29.1% 24.6% 28.0% 28.7%
FDP 18.3% 17.8% 20.7% 18.1% 12.1% 10.0% 11.2%
SVP 9.3% 9.3% 13.6% 12.9% 9.2% 11.1% 11.1%
GFL 6.2% 5.2% 5.9% 11.6% 10.9% 9.4% 10.4%
GB 6.6% 8.1% 6.9% 9.3% 8.9% 10.4% 10.2%
glp 5.2% 8.1% 9.8%
BDP 7.8% 7.8% 3.7%
YES! 1.3% 2.4% 2.6% 2.6% 3.2% 2.1% 3.0%
EPP 3.5% 3.3% 3.0% 3.6% 2.7% 3.2% 2.7%
CVP 4.0% 3.4% 3.8% 3.9% 4.6% 2.8% 2.4%
AL 1.5% 2.2%
PdA 0.6% 1.6% 1.6% 1.0% 1.7%
GPB-DA 3.2% 1.3% 1.5% 1.8% 2.4% 1.8% 1.4%
EDU 2.0% 1.8% 1.2% 1.3% 1.3% 1.2% 0.7%
Hofer 2.8% 0.5%
SD 5.8% 5.7% 3.1% 2.8% 1.1% 0.9% 0.3%
center 1.0%
ARP 2.4% 2.2% 1.7% 1.4% 0.6%
AP / FPS 6.9% 3.2% 0.8%
LdU 2.5% 2.5%
Rest 0.9% 1.1% 0.7%

Web links

Individual evidence

Overview tables of the results of the city and municipal council elections can be found in:

Roberth Barth, Eimil Erne, Christian Lüthi: Bern - the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bern 2003, p. 338 f.

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  27. ↑ Voting shares calculated using http://www.bern.ch/leben_in_bern/stadt/wahlen/archiv/wahlen_1996/stadtrat/stadtratswahl_1996_results
  28. ↑ Voting shares calculated using http://www.bern.ch/leben_in_bern/stadt/wahlen/archiv/wahlen_2000/stadtrat/stadtratswahl_2000_results
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