National Council constituency Ticino-North
The Tessin-Nord electoral district was an electoral district in the Swiss National Council . It existed from 1851 to 1919 (introduction of today's proportional voting rights ) and covered the southern part of the canton of Ticino .
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
Tessin-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 (first application of a uniform federal law), Tessin-Nord was numbered 40, from 1863 to number 38, from 1872 to number 39, from 1881 to number 40, from 1890 to number 43 and from 1902 to number 41.
Tessin-Nord had a varying number of seats available:
- 1851 to 1878: 3 seats
- 1881 to 1887: 5 seats
- 1890 to 1899: 4 seats
- 1902 to 1908: 3 seats
- from 1911: 4 seats
expansion
The area of the constituency was first made binding on December 21, 1850 with the “Federal Act on the Election of Members of the National Council” after the entire canton had formed a single constituency in 1848. It comprised:
- the Bellinzona district (excluding the Giubiasco district )
- the Blenio district
- the Leventina district
- the Locarno district
- the Riviera district
- the Vallemaggia district
In accordance with the “Federal Law on Elections to the National Council” of May 3, 1881, there was a significant increase when larger areas were separated from the constituency of Ticino-South and added Ticino-North. The constituency now included:
- the Bellinzona district
- the Blenio district
- the Leventina district
- the Locarno district
- in the Lugano district the districts of Breno , Magliasina , Sessa , Sonvico , Taverne , Tesserete and Vezia
- the Riviera district
- the Vallemaggia district
With the “Federal Law on the National Council constituencies” of June 4, 1902, the areas in the Lugano district were ceded to the Ticino-South constituency, as were two communities in the Bellinzona district on the south side of Monte Ceneri . Now the constituency comprised:
- the Bellinzona district (excluding the municipalities of Isone and Medeglia )
- the Blenio district
- the Leventina district
- the Locarno district
- the Riviera district
- the Vallemaggia district
The last change in the area came with the Federal Law on National Council constituencies of June 23, 1911, when the two communities belonging to the Bellinzona district came back from the Ticino-South constituency. Ticino North recently comprised:
- the Bellinzona district
- the Blenio district
- the Leventina district
- the Locarno district
- the Riviera district
- the Vallemaggia district
In 1919, the two Ticino constituencies were to still existing National Constituency Ticino merged, where the proportional representation law.
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
- (A) = result canceled
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 1, 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 1, 2014 .
- ^ Federal law on the electoral districts of the National Council (of June 4, 1902). (PDF, 281 kB) In: Federal Gazette No. 24 of June 11, 1902. admin.ch, May 21, 2013, accessed on November 1, 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 1, 2014 .