National Council constituency St. Gallen-Mitte

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The National Council constituency of St. Gallen-Mitte was an electoral district for elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1890 to 1919 (introduction of today's proportional voting rights ) and covered the central part of the canton of St. Gallen .

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

Constituencies of the Canton of St. Gallen 1890–1902
Constituencies of the Canton of St. Gallen 1902–1911
Constituencies of the Canton of St. Gallen 1911–1919

St. Gallen-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. St. Gallen-Mitte was number 33 from 1890 and number 32 from 1911.

St. Gallen-Mitte initially had 2 seats, from 1911 there were 3 seats.

expansion

The area of ​​the constituency was made binding on June 20, 1890 with the “Federal Act on Elections to the National Council” when large parts of the constituencies of St. Gallen-Northwest and St. Gallen-South were amalgamated. St. Gallen-Mitte comprised:

In 1919 the five St. Gallen constituencies were merged to form the St. Gallen National Council constituency, which still exists today , in which proportional representation applies.

National Councils

  • Liberal Left (FL), Liberal Democratic Party (FDP)
  • Democratic Party (DP)
    • date choice Elected Political party
    10/26/1890
    11/9/1890
    01/25/1890    		 G   Eduard Steiger DP
      Johann Georg Berlinger , Carl Hilty FL
    October 29, 1893 G   Carl Hilty , Eduard Steiger DP
      Johann Georg Berlinger FL
    10/25/1896 G   Carl Theodor Curti DP
      Johann Georg Berlinger , Carl Hilty FDP
    October 29, 1899 G   Carl Theodor Curti DP
      Johann Georg Berlinger , Carl Hilty FDP
    04/11/1900 E.   Ernst Wagner FDP
    10/26/1902 G   Johann Jakob Bösch , Carl Hilty , Ernst Wagner FDP
    October 29, 1905 G   Johann Jakob Bösch , Carl Hilty , Ernst Wagner FDP
    10/25/1908 G   Robert Forrer , Carl Hilty , Ernst Wagner FDP
    11/30/1909 E.   Gallus Schwendener FDP
    October 29, 1911 G   Robert Forrer , Gallus Schwendener , Ernst Wagner FDP
    10/25/1914 G   Robert Forrer , Gallus Schwendener , Ernst Wagner FDP
    10/28/1917 G   Robert Forrer , Gallus Schwendener , Ernst Wagner FDP

    source

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ Federal law on elections to the National Council (of June 20, 1890). (PDF, 296 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 26 of June 21, 1890. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .