Vaud North constituency of the National Council
The National Council constituency Waadt-Nord 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 northern part of the canton of Vaud .
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
Vaud North 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 (the first application of a uniform federal law), Waadt-Nord had the number 43, from 1863 the number 41, from 1872 the number 42, from 1881 the number 43, from 1890 the number 46 and from 1902 the number 44.
Due to the growing population, Waadt-Nord was awarded a higher number of seats several times during constituency audits.
- 1848 to 1860: 3 seats
- 1863 to 1908: 4 seats
- from 1911: 5 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 III, created in 1848 by the Cantonal Government of Vaud , was adopted unchanged. It comprised:
- the Avenches district
- the district of Grandson
- the Moudon district
- in the district of Orbe the districts of Baulmes and Orbe
- in the Oron district, the Mézières district
- the Payerne district
- the Yverdon district
The first change of territory came with the "Supplementary Law on Elections to the National Council" of July 23, 1863. Vaud-Nord received the district of Echallens from the constituency of Vaud-East in exchange for the district of Mézières of the Oron district. In addition, the constituency of Waadt-West ceded the districts of Romainmôtier and Vallorbe to Waadt-Nord. The constituency of Vaud North now comprised:
- the Avenches district
- the Echallens district
- the district of Grandson
- the Moudon district
- the district of Orbe
- the Payerne district
- the Yverdon district
In accordance with the “Federal Act on Federal Elections and Votes” of July 19, 1872, the entire Oron district was added to the North Vaud constituency, which included the following areas:
- the Avenches district
- the Echallens district
- the district of Grandson
- the Moudon district
- the district of Orbe
- the Oron district
- the Payerne district
- the Yverdon district
With the “Federal Law on Elections to the National Council” of May 3, 1881, the Oron district returned to East Vaud, so the area again corresponded to that of 1863.
The last change in the area came with the “Federal Act on National Council constituencies” of June 23, 1911. The La Vallée district was separated from the Vaud-West constituency and allocated to Vaud-North. The constituency last comprised:
- the Avenches district
- the Echallens district
- the district of Grandson
- the La Vallée district
- the Moudon district
- the district of Orbe
- the Payerne district
- the Yverdon district
In 1919 the three Vaudois constituencies were merged to form the still existing Vaud National Council constituency , 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 1, 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 1, 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 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 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 .