Bern-Nordjura National Council constituency

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The Bern-Nordjura National Council constituency was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1890 to 1919 (introduction of today's proportional voting rights ) and covered an area in the north 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-Nordjura 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-Nordjura initially had the number 11, from 1911 the number 12.

Bern-Nordjura initially had 2 seats, from 1902 3 seats were available.

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Bern 1890–1911
Constituencies of the Canton of Bern 1911–1919

The area of ​​the constituency was determined on June 20, 1890 with the “Federal Act on Elections to the National Council”. The previous constituency of Bern-Jura was separated into two parts. The newly created constituency of Bern-Nordjura comprised:

Due to the complicated borderline of the Delémont district, there was an exclave with the municipality of Montsevelier . This in turn was surrounded by an enclave of the district of Moutier belonging to the constituency of Bern-Südjura , consisting of the communities of Corban , Courchapoix , Mervelier and Schelten .

In 1919, the seven constituencies of Bern were merged to form the still existing constituency of the National Council of Bern , in which proportional representation applies.

National Councils

  • Liberal Left (FL), Liberal Democratic Party (FDP)
  • Catholic Conservatives (KK), Conservative People's Party (KVP)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/26/1890 G   Henri Cuenat FL
      Joseph Choquard KK
    October 29, 1893 G   Henri Cuenat FL
      Joseph Choquard KK
    11/17/1895 E.   Casimir Folletete KK
    05/10/1896 E.   Virgile Rossel FDP
    10/25/1896 G   Casimir Folletête , Joseph-Auguste Boinay KK
    29.10.1899
    05.11.1899    		 G   Émile Boéchat FDP
      Casimir Folletete KK
    01/20/1901 E.   Joseph Choquard KK
    10/26/1902 G   Louis Joliat FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt KK
    08/14/1904 E.   Henri Simonin FDP
    29.10.1905
    05.11.1905    		 G   Henri Simonin FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt KK
    25.10.1908
    15.11.1908    		 G   Henri Simonin FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt KK
    October 29, 1911 G   Henri Simonin FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt KK
    25.10.1914
    11.08.1914    		 G   Henri Simonin FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt CIP
    10/28/1917
    11/18/1917    		 G   Maurice Goetschel FDP
      Joseph Choquard , Ernest Daucourt CIP

    source

    Individual evidence

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