Lucerne Northwest constituency of the National Council

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The Lucerne-Northwest constituency of the National Council was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1872 to 1890 and covered the north-western 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-Nordwest 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 1872, Luzern-Nordwest was number 13.

Lucerne-Northwest always had 2 seats available.

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of Lucerne 1872–1890

The area of ​​the constituency was determined in accordance with the “Federal Act on Federal Elections and Votes” of July 19, 1872. It comprised:

In 1890, the constituencies of Lucerne Northwest and Lucerne Southwest were merged to form the new Lucerne West constituency .

National Councils

  • Liberal Left (FL)
  • Catholic Conservatives (KK)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/27/1872 G   Vinzenz Fischer , Jost Peyer KK
    October 19, 1873 E.   Johann Amberg KK
    10/31/1875 G   Johann Amberg , Vinzenz Fischer KK
    10/27/1878 G   Josef Erni , Vinzenz Fischer KK
    07/27/1879 E.   Leo Steiner FL
    10/30/1881 G   Josef Erni , Candid Hochstrasser KK
    10/26/1884 G   Josef Erni , Candid Hochstrasser KK
    10/30/1887 G   Josef Erni , Candid Hochstrasser KK

    source

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ Message from the Federal Council to the High Federal Assembly on the elections to the National Council (of June 24, 1872). (PDF, 722 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 30 of July 6, 1872. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .