National Council constituency St. Gallen-Nordost
The National Council constituency St. Gallen-Nordost was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1919 (introduction of today's proportional voting rights ) and covered the northeastern 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
St. Gallen-Nordost 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-Nordost was numbered 28 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), number 29 from 1872, number 30 from 1881 and number 31 from 1890.
The number of seats available to St. Gallen-Nordost changed several times:
- 1848 to 1860: 2 seats
- 1863 to 1869: 3 seats
- 1872 to 1887: 4 seats
- 1890 to 1899: 2 seats
- 1902 to 1908: 3 seats
- from 1911: 4 seats
expansion
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 constituency I, created in 1848 by the St. Gallen cantonal government , was adopted unchanged. St. Gallen Northeast comprised:
- the city of St. Gallen
- in the Upper Rhine Valley district the communities of Marbach and Rebstein
- the district of Rorschach
- the Tablat district (corresponds to the municipalities of Häggenschwil , Muolen , Tablat and Wittenbach )
- the Lower Rhine Valley district
The area was expanded with the "Supplementary Act on Elections to the National Council" of July 23, 1863, when the other communities in the Upper Rhine Valley were separated from the St. Gallen-South constituency . St. Gallen Northeast now comprised:
- the city of St. Gallen
- the Upper Rhine Valley district
- the district of Rorschach
- the Tablat district
- the Lower Rhine Valley district
In accordance with the “Federal Law on Federal Elections and Votes” of July 19, 1872, the communities of Gams and Sennwald in the Werdenberg district became part of the St. Gallen-Nordost constituency. With the “Federal Law on Elections to the National Council” of May 3, 1881, these two communities were returned to St. Gallen-Süd, so that the territorial expansion corresponded to that of 1863.
The "Federal Act on Elections to the National Council" of June 20, 1890 resulted in a significant reduction in size. The city of St. Gallen and the Tablat district were ceded to the newly created constituency of St. Gallen-Stadt . St. Gallen-Nordost thus still comprised:
- the Upper Rhine Valley district
- the district of Rorschach
- the Lower Rhine Valley district
The last change in the area took place with the “Federal Law on the National Council constituencies” of June 23, 1911. Three rural communities were separated from the constituency of St. Gallen-Stadt and assigned to St. Gallen-Northeast. This last comprised:
- the Upper Rhine Valley district
- the district of Rorschach
- in the Tablat district the communities Häggenschwil, Muolen and Wittenbach
- the Lower Rhine Valley district
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
- G = total renewal election
- E = replacement election in the event of vacancies
- K = election of compliments by an incumbent Federal Councilor
- B = supplementary election for a Federal Councilor
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 .
- ↑ 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 2, 2014 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Federal law on elections to the National Council (of May 3, 1881). (PDF, 288 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 20 of May 10, 1881. admin.ch , May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Federal Act on the National Council constituencies (of June 23, 1911). (PDF, 296 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 26 of June 28, 1911. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .