National Council constituency St. Gallen-West

The National Council constituency St. Gallen-West was a constituency in elections to the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1848 to 1863 and covered the western 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-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. From 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law) St. Gallen-West was number 30.

St. Gallen-West always had 2 seats available.

expansion

Constituencies of the Canton of St. Gallen 1848–1863

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 III, created in 1848 by the St. Gallen cantonal government , was adopted unchanged. St. Gallen-West comprised:

in the district of Alttoggenburg the communities Bütschwil and Mosnang
the Gaster district
in the Neutoggenburg district the communities Lichtensteig , Krinau and Wattwil
the Obertoggenburg district

the lake district

In 1863 the area was divided into the constituencies of St. Gallen-Northwest and St. Gallen-South .

National Councils

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

Democratic Left (DL)

Liberal Left (FL), Liberal Democratic Party (FDP)

Liberal Middle (LM)

date	choice		Political party
10/15/1848	G	Dominik Gmür	FL
10/15/1848	G	Johann Jakob Steger	LM

10/26/1851	G	Abraham Raschle , Benedikt Schubiger	FL

October 29, 1854	G	Abraham Raschle , Benedikt Schubiger	FL

25.10.1857	G	Abraham Raschle , Benedikt Schubiger	FL

December 04, 1859	E.	Basil Ferdinand Curti	FL

10/28/1860	G	Basil Ferdinand Curti	DL
10/28/1860	G	Johann Rudolf Raschle	FL

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 .