National Council constituency Vaud-East
The National Council constituency Waadt-Ost 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 south-eastern 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
Waadt-Ost 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. Waadt-Ost had the number 42 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), from 1863 the number 40, from 1872 the number 41, from 1881 the number 42, from 1890 the number 45 and from 1902 the number 43.
Due to the growing population, Waadt-Ost was awarded a higher number of seats several times during constituency audits.
- 1848: 3 seats
- 1851 to 1878: 4 seats
- 1881 to 1899: 5 seats
- 1902 to 1908: 7 seats
- from 1911: 8 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 Cantonal Government of Vaud , was adopted unchanged. It comprised:
- the district of Aigle
- the Echallens district
- the Lausanne district
- the Lavaux district
- the Oron district excluding the Mézières district
- the Pays-d'Enhaut district
- the district of Vevey
The first change in the area came with the "Supplementary Act on Elections to the National Council" of July 23, 1863. The Echallens district was ceded to the Vaud-North constituency , while the Mézières district of the Oron district became part of Vaud-East. The constituency of Vaud East now comprised:
- the district of Aigle
- the Lausanne district
- the Lavaux district
- the Oron district
- the Pays-d'Enhaut district
- the district of Vevey
According to the “Federal Law on Federal Elections and Votes” of July 19, 1872, the Oron district was separated and added to the North Vaud constituency. Thus, Waadt-Ost comprised:
- the district of Aigle
- the Lausanne district
- the Lavaux district
- the Pays-d'Enhaut district
- the district of Vevey
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. As a result, there were no more territorial adjustments.
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 .