National Council constituency of Graubünden-West

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The National Council constituency of Graubünden-West was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1902 and covered the western 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-West 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 was numbered 35 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), number 33 from 1863, number 34 from 1872, number 35 from 1881 and number 37 from 1890.

At first Graubünden-West 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 second 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 part of the dissolved constituency of Graubünden-Mitte was ceded to Graubünden-West. The constituency of Graubünden-West 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)
  • Catholic Conservatives (KK)
  • Liberal Middle (LM)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/01/1848 G   Alois de Latour FL
    10/01/1851 G   Johann Bartholome Arpagaus LM
    October 29, 1854 G   Alois de Latour FL
    10/25/1857
    11/15/1857
    12/4/1857    		 G   Caspar de Latour FL
    10/28/1860 G   Caspar de Latour FL
    03/10/1861 E.   Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
    10/25/1863
    11/15/1863    		 G   Alois de Latour FL
      Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
    25.10.1866
    11.11.1866    		 G   Alois de Latour FL
      Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
    10/31/1869
    11/14/1869
    11/28/1869    		 G   Johann Bartholome Caflisch FL
      Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
    10/27/1872 G   Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
      Johann Anton Casparis sr. LM
    10/31/1875
    11/11/1875    		 G   Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
      Anton Steinhauser FL
    10/27/1878 G   Johann Rudolf of Toggenburg KK
      Anton Steinhauser FL
    10/30/1881 G   Caspar Decurtins , Johann Schmid KK
    10/26/1884 G   Caspar Decurtins , Johann Schmid KK
    10/30/1887 G   Caspar Decurtins , Johann Schmid KK
    10/26/1890 G   Caspar Decurtins , Johann Schmid KK
    October 29, 1893 G   Johann Anton Casparis Jr. FL
      Caspar Decurtins KK
    10/25/1896 G   Caspar Decurtins KK
      Alfred von Planta LM
    October 29, 1899 G   Caspar Decurtins KK
      Alfred von Planta 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 January 11, 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 January 11, 2014 .