Bern-Jura National Council constituency

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The Bern-Jura National Council constituency was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1890 and covered the northern, predominantly French-speaking part of the canton of Bern .

Electoral process

This was a plural constituency. This means that although several seats had to be allocated, the majority voting system was used. In the sense of the Romansh majority election , a candidate needed an absolute majority of the votes in order to be elected. Several ballots may have been necessary to distribute all seats. Each voter had as many votes as there were seats to be allocated.

Name and number of seats

Bern-Jura is an unofficial geographical name. In official use, consecutive numbering applied across the whole of Switzerland, arranged according to the order of the cantons in the Swiss Federal Constitution, was common . Bern-Jura always wore the number 10.

Due to the growing population, Bern-Jura was awarded a higher number of seats several times in constituency audits.

  • 1848: 3 seats
  • 1851 to 1869: 4 seats
  • from 1872: 5 seats

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Bern 1848–1872
Constituencies of the Canton of Bern 1872–1890

The area of ​​the constituency was made binding for the first time on December 21, 1850 with the "Federal Act on the Election of Members of the National Council", whereby the constituency created by the Bern cantonal government in 1848 was taken over unchanged. It comprised:

With the “Federal Law on Elections to the National Council” of June 20, 1890, Bern-Jura was divided into the constituencies of Bern-North Jura and Bern-South Jura .

National Councils

  • Evangelical Rights (Evangelical / Reformed Conservatives) (ER)
  • Liberal Left (FL)
  • Catholic Conservatives (KK)
  • Liberal Middle (LM)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/08/1848
    10/22/1848    		 G   Cyprien Revel , Xavier Stockmar FL
      Xavier Péquignot LM
    10/28/1851 G   Auguste Moschard HE
      Pierre-Ignace Aubry , Xavier Elsässer , Charles Moreau KK
    05/04/1854 E.   Paul Migy FL
    29.10.1854
    12.11.1854    		 G   Édouard Carlin , Paul Migy , Cyprien Revel , Xavier Stockmar FL
    25.10.1857 G   Édouard Carlin , Paul Migy , Cyprien Revel , Xavier Stockmar FL
    10/28/1860 G   Édouard Carlin , Paul Migy , Cyprien Revel , Xavier Stockmar FL
    10/26/1863 G   Édouard Carlin , Paul Migy , Cyprien Revel , Xavier Stockmar FL
    08/21/1864 E.   Niklaus Kaiser FL
    10/28/1866 G   Édouard Carlin , Niklaus Kaiser , Paul Migy , Cyprien Revel FL
    10/31/1869 G   Édouard Carlin , Pierre Jolissaint , Niklaus Kaiser , Paul Migy FL
    08/21/1870 E.   Auguste-Adolphe Klaye FL
    10/27/1872
    11/11/1872    		 G   Pierre Jolissaint , Niklaus Kaiser , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Paul Migy , Hippolyte Paulet FL
    10/31/1875 G   Pierre Jolissaint , Niklaus Kaiser , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Paul Migy , Hippolyte Paulet FL
    27.10.1878
    03.11.1878    		 G   Abraham Boivin , Albert Morel HE
      Niklaus Kaiser , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Hippolyte Paulet FL
    05/04/1879 E.   Joseph Stockmar FL
    10/30/1881 G   Henri Cuenat , Ernest Francillon , Niklaus Kaiser , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Joseph Stockmar FL
    10/26/1884 G   Henri Cuenat , Ernest Francillon , Pierre Jolissaint , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Joseph Stockmar FL
    10/30/1887 G   Henri Cuenat , Ernest Francillon , Pierre Jolissaint , Auguste-Adolphe Klaye , Joseph Stockmar FL

    literature

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ Federal law on the election of members of the National Council (of December 21, 1850). (PDF, 676 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 61 of December 28, 1850. admin.ch , May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .
    2. ^ Federal law on elections to the National Council (of June 20, 1891). (PDF, 296 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 26 of June 21, 1890. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .