Lucerne-North constituency of the National Council

The National Council constituency of Lucerne-North was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1851 to 1872 and covered the northern part of the canton of Lucerne .

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

Luzern-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. From 1851 onwards, when a uniform federal law was applied for the first time, Lucerne North had the number 13.

Lucerne-North always had 3 seats available.

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Lucerne 1851–1872

The area of the constituency was made binding on December 21, 1850 with the "Federal Act on the Election of Members of the National Council". It comprised:

in the Hochdorf district the communities of Aesch , Altwis , Ermensee , Gelfingen , Herlisberg , Hitzkirch , Hochdorf , Mosen , Retschwil and Richensee
in the Sursee district the municipalities of Büron , Grosswangen , Geuensee , Gunzwil , Knutwil , Kulmerau , Mauensee , Münster , Neudorf , Oberkirch , Pfeffikon , Rickenbach , Schenkon , Schlierbach , Schwarzenbach , Sursee , Triengen , Wilihof and Winikon
the Willisau office without the communities of Luthern and Menznau

National Councils

G = total renewal election
E = replacement election in the event of vacancies

Liberal Left (FL)

Catholic Conservatives (KK)

date	choice		Political party
10/26/1851	G	Josef Sigmund Bühler , Casimir Pfyffer , Anton Schnyder	FL

October 29, 1854	G	Josef Sigmund Bühler , Casimir Pfyffer , Anton Schnyder	FL

25.10.1857	G	Josef Sigmund Bühler , Casimir Pfyffer , Anton Schnyder	FL

10/28/1860	G	Josef Sigmund Bühler , Casimir Pfyffer , Franz Widmer	FL

06/28/1863	E.	Anton Hunkeler	FL

10/25/1863	G	Anton Hunkeler , Hans Theiler , Anton Wapf	FL

10/28/1866	G	Anton Hunkeler , Hans Theiler , Anton Wapf	FL

10/31/1869 11/28/1869 12/19/1869	G	Franz Xaver Beck , Adam Herzog , Jost Peyer	KK

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 .

[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 2, 2014 .