Vaud-West National Council constituency
The National Council constituency Waadt-West 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 southwestern 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-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. Waadt-West bore the number 44 from 1851 (first application of a uniform federal law), from 1863 the number 42, from 1872 the number 43, from 1881 the number 44, from 1890 the number 47 and from 1902 the number 45.
Due to the stagnating population, Waadt-West always had three 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 II, created in 1848 by the Cantonal Government of Vaud , was adopted unchanged. It comprised:
- the Aubonne district
- the district of Cossonay
- the La Vallée district
- the Morges district
- the Nyon district
- the Romainmôtier and Vallorbe counties in the Orbe district
- the Rolle district
The "Supplementary Act on Elections to the National Council" of July 23, 1863 resulted in a change of territory. The Romainmôtier and Vallorbe districts in the Orbe district were ceded to the Vaud North constituency . From then on, Waadt-West comprised:
- the Aubonne district
- the district of Cossonay
- the La Vallée district
- the Morges district
- the Nyon district
- the Rolle district
The last change in the area came with the Federal Law on National Council constituencies of June 23, 1911. The La Vallée district was separated and assigned to the Vaud-North constituency . Waadt-West recently comprised:
- the Aubonne district
- the district of Cossonay
- the Morges district
- the Nyon district
- the Rolle 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 .
- ↑ 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 .