Lancy

Lancy
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Geneva (GE)
District :	No district division
BFS no. :	6628
Postal code :	1212
Coordinates :	497 928  /  115516 coordinates: 46 ° 11 '0 "  N , 6 ° 7' 0"  O ; CH1903:  four hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred twenty-eight  /  115516
Height :	420  m above sea level M.
Height range :	369-430 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.77  km²
Residents:	32,851 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	6887 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	35.4% (December 31, 2018)
Website:	www.lancy.ch
The Stade de Genève in Lancy
Location of the municipality

Lancy is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .

geography

Lancy is located south of the Rhone and consists of the two districts Grand-Lancy and Petit-Lancy .

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

The Stade de Genève , one of the venues for the 2008 European Football Championship , is located in the municipality of Lancy.

The neighboring municipalities are Onex , Plan-les-Ouates , Carouge and the city of Geneva .

population

Population development
year	1482	1518	around 1800	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2017
Residents	27	24	508	778	1918	5792	25668	28631	28909	30919	31868

With 32,851 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Lancy is the third largest city in the canton.

politics

Legislative - Local Council

Distribution of seats in 2020

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10

7th

5

6th

9 10 7th 5 6th 

A total of 37 seats

• GPS : 9
• SP : 10
• CVP - glp : 7
• FDP : 5
• MCG : 6

The legislative power is exercised by the municipal council (conseil municipal) . It has 37 seats and is elected directly by the people every five years using proportional representation with a 7 percent hurdle. The municipal council determines the city budget and votes on submissions from the city government (conseil administratif) . He can also launch initiatives himself. The graphic above shows the distribution of seats after the last municipal elections in March 2020.

National Council elections

In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Lancy was: Greens 23.9%, SP 17.2%, SVP 13.6%, FDP 12.2%, MCG 9.2%, CVP 8.5%, Sol / POP 6.9%, glp 5.0%, EVP 1.0%.

traffic

The Geneva trolleybus operated by Transports publics genevois (TPG) runs in Lancy . Lancy is also on the Geneva-Cornavin-Geneva La Praille railway, which will be extended to Annemasse until 2017 as CEVA . Passenger traffic has also been on the line since 2002, when the Lancy Pont-Rouge stop , which connects Lancy to the Swiss railway network, was opened.

economy

Lancy is the seat of the Induni construction company .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Lancy

• La piscine

Green spaces

There are around 30 parks in Lancy with a total of 554,945 m² of green space . The community has been Bio Suisse certified since January 1, 2019 .

literature

• Dominique Zumkeller: Lancy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Lancy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Lancy
• Lancy on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Population résidante selon l'origine et le sexe, par commune, depuis 2013 . (XLS, 147 kB) In: ge.ch. Statistical Office of the Canton of Geneva ( Office cantonal de la statistique  - OCSTAT), March 7, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 (French). 
3. ↑ Élection des conseils municipaux du 15 mars 2020. Retrieved on March 15, 2020 (French). 
4. ↑ Federal elections 2019. opendata.swiss, accessed on December 20, 2019 . 
5. ↑ La piscine de Lancy on ETHorama
6. ^ Lancy - the first organic community in Switzerland. In: naturschutz.ch. August 2, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .