Bern-Südjura National Council constituency

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The Bern-Südjura 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-Südjura 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-Südjura initially had the number 10, from 1911 the number 11.

Due to the stagnating population, Bern-Südjura always had 3 seats 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-Südjura comprised:

Due to the complicated borderline of the administrative district of Moutier, there was an exclave with the communities of Corban , Courchapoix , Mervelier and Schelten , which was surrounded by the area of ​​the constituency of Bern-Nordjura .

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)
  • Conservative People's Party (KVP)
  • Liberale Mitte (LM), Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS)
  • Social Democratic Party (SP)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/26/1890 G   Albert Gobat , Pierre Jolissaint , Joseph Stockmar FL
    October 29, 1893 G   Albert Gobat , Pierre Jolissaint , Joseph Stockmar FL
    05/10/1896 G   Albert Gobat , Virgile Rossel , Joseph Stockmar FDP
    02/28/1897 E.   Louis Péteut LM
    October
    29, 1899 January 21, 1900    		 G   Albert Gobat , Albert Locher , Virgile Rossel FDP
    06/22/1902 E.   Louis Joliat FDP
    10/26/1902 G   Albert Gobat , Albert Locher , Virgile Rossel FDP
    October 29, 1905 G   Albert Gobat , Albert Locher , Virgile Rossel FDP
    10/25/1908 G   Albert Gobat , Albert Locher , Virgile Rossel FDP
    October 29, 1911 G   Albert Gobat , Albert Locher , Virgile Rossel FDP
    04/28/1912 E.   Robert Savoye FDP
    05/17/1914 E.   Émile Ryser SP
    10/25/1914 G   Albert Locher , Robert Savoye FDP
      Émile Ryser SP
    10/28/1917 G   Xavier Jobin CIP
      Achille Grospierre , Émile Ryser SP

    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 .