National Council constituency of Bern-Oberland
The Bern-Oberland National Council constituency was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1919 (introduction of today's proportional voting rights ) and comprised the southern part of the canton of Bern , the Bernese Oberland .
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-Oberland 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 . Due to the changing number over the years, some constituencies were given a new number several times. From 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), Bern-Oberland bore the number 5 for decades and was given the number 6 in 1911.
Due to the growing population, Bern-Oberland was awarded a higher number of seats several times during constituency audits.
- 1848 to 1869: 4 seats
- 1872 to 1908: 5 seats
- from 1911: 6 seats
expansion
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:
- the district of Frutigen
- the district of Interlaken
- the district of Niedersimmental
- the district of Oberhasli
- the Obersimmental district
- the Saanen district
- the administrative district of Thun without the parishes of Amsoldingen, Blumenstein and Thierachern (corresponds to the political communities of Amsoldingen , Blumenstein , Forst , Höfen bei Thun , Längenbühl , Pohlern , Thierachern , Uebeschi , Uetendorf and Zwieselberg )
In accordance with the federal law on federal elections and votes of July 19, 1872, the parishes of Amsoldingen, Blumenstein and Thierachern were separated from the Bern-Mittelland constituency and added to the Bern-Oberland. The constituency thus comprised:
- the district of Frutigen
- the district of Interlaken
- the district of Niedersimmental
- the district of Oberhasli
- the Obersimmental district
- the Saanen district
- the district of Thun
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
- G = total renewal election
- E = replacement election in the event of vacancies
- K = election of compliments by an incumbent Federal Councilor
- B = supplementary election for a Federal Councilor
source
- Erich Gruner : The elections to the Swiss National Council 1848-1919 . tape 3 . Francke Verlag, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7720-1445-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
- ^ Message from the Federal Council to the High Federal Assembly on the elections to the National Council (of June 24, 1872). (PDF, 722 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 30 of July 6, 1872. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .