National Council constituency Zurich-South
The National Council constituency of Zurich-South 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 southern part of the canton of Zurich .
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
Zurich-South is an unofficial geographical name. In official use, consecutive numbering was used throughout Switzerland, arranged according to the order of the cantons in the Swiss Federal Constitution . 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), Zurich-South was number 2, from 1911 number 3.
Due to the growing population, Zurich-East was awarded a higher number of seats several times during constituency audits.
- 1848 to 1878: 3 seats
- 1881 to 1899: 4 seats
- from 1902: 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 the constituency created by the Zurich cantonal government in 1848 was taken over unchanged. It comprised:
- the district of Hinwil
- the district of miles
- the guilds Richterswil and Wädenswil in the Horgen district (corresponds to the communities of Hütten , Richterswil , Schönenberg and Wädenswil )
With the “Federal Law on Elections to the National Council” of May 3, 1881, an enlargement took place when the other communities in the Horgen district were separated from the Zurich-South-West constituency and Zurich-South was added. The Zurich-South constituency now included:
- the district of Hinwil
- the district of Horgen
- the district of miles
In 1919 the five Zurich constituencies were amalgamated to form the still existing Zurich 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 October 28, 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 October 28, 2014 .