National Council constituency of Graubünden-North

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The National Council constituency of Graubünden-Nord was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1902 and covered the northern part of the canton of Graubünden .

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

Graubünden-Nord 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-West bore the number 34 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), number 31 from 1863, number 32 from 1872, number 33 from 1881 and number 35 from 1890.

Initially, Graubünden-Nord had 1 seat, from 1863 2 seats were available.

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Graubünden 1848–1863
Constituencies of the Canton of Graubünden 1863–1902

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 3rd constituency created by the Graubünden cantonal government in 1848 was taken over unchanged. It comprised:

The area was enlarged with the “Supplementary Law on Elections to the National Council” of July 23, 1863, when parts of the dissolved constituency of Graubünden-Mitte and Graubünden-East were ceded to Graubünden-North. The constituency of Graubünden-North now comprised:

In 1902 the three Graubünden constituencies were amalgamated to form the Graubünden National Council constituency, which still exists today , in which proportional representation has been in force since 1919.

National Councils

  • Liberal Left (FL)
  • Liberal Middle (LM)
  • Democratic Left ( Democrats , Democratic Party ) (DL)
  • Evangelical Rights (Evangelical / Reformed Conservatives) (ER)
  • date choice Elected Political party
    10/01/1848 G   Georg Michel FL
    11/18/1849 G   Johann Rudolf Brosi FL
    10/26/1851
    11/9/1851
    G   Georg Michel FL
    October 29, 1854 G   Georg Michel FL
    10/25/1857
    11/15/1857
    G   Georg Michel FL
    10/28/1860
    11/18/1860
    G   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
    10/25/1863
    11/15/1863
    G   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
      Simeon Bavier LM
    10/28/1866
    11/11/1866
    G   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
      Simeon Bavier LM
    10/31/1869
    11/14/1869
    G   Gaudenz Gadmer FL
      Simeon Bavier LM
    10/27/1872
    11/11/1872
    G   Hermann Jakob von spokesman HE
      Simeon Bavier LM
    06/06/1875 E.   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
    10/31/1875 G   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
      Simeon Bavier LM
    10/27/1878 G   Hermann Jakob von spokesman HE
      Simeon Bavier LM
    01/19/1879 B.   Johann Gaudenz von Salis FL
    10/30/1881 G   Hermann Jakob von spokesman HE
      Simeon Bavier (K) LM
    01/22/1882 B.   Luzius Raschein FL
    06/10/1883 E.   Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    10/26/1884
    11/9/1884
    G   Luzius Raschein FL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    10/30/1887 G   Luzius Raschein FL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    10/26/1890 G   Matthäus Risch DL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    October 29, 1893 G   Matthäus Risch DL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    10/25/1896 G   Matthäus Risch DL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM
    October 29, 1899 G   Matthäus Risch DL
      Peter Theophil Bühler LM

    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 .
    2. Supplementary Act on Elections to the National Council. (PDF, 1.0 MB) In: Federal Gazette No. 24 of June 6, 1863. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 1, 2014 .