National Council constituency of Graubünden-Mitte

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The National Council constituency of Graubünden-Mitte was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1863 and covered the central part of the canton of Graubünden .

Electoral process

This was a singles constituency. This means that only 1 seat was available and the pure majority suffrage was used. Each voter had one vote.

Name and number of seats

Graubünden-Mitte 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. Graubünden-Mitte bore the number 32 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law).

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Graubünden 1848–1863

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 first constituency created by the Graubünden cantonal government in 1848 was taken over unchanged. It comprised:

In 1863, Graubünden-Mitte was divided into the constituencies of Graubünden-North and Graubünden-West .

National Councils

  • Liberal Left (FL)
  • Evangelical Rights (Evangelical / Reformed Conservatives) (ER)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/01/1848 G   Johann Baptista Bavier HE
    10/26/1851 G   Johann Baptista Bavier HE
    October 29, 1854 G   Johann Baptista Bavier HE
    07.12.1856 E.   Peter Conradin from Planta FL
    10/25/1857
    11/15/1857    		 G   Johann Andreas spokesman for Bernegg HE
    10/28/1860
    11/18/1860    		 G   Johann Bartholome Caflisch FL

    source

    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 1, 2014 .