Swiss parliamentary elections 1914 / results of the National Council elections

National Council constituencies from 1911 to 1919

The National Council elections for the 23rd legislative period took place on October 25, 1914. 189 seats in the Swiss National Council had to be filled . This page provides an overview of the detailed results in the cantons.

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Explanations

As in all elections before the introduction of proportional representation , which is customary today, in 1919, majority voting was applied. For this purpose the country was divided into 49 national council constituencies of different sizes , in which one to eight seats were to be allocated. The so-called Romance majority vote was used , in which a candidate needed an absolute majority of the votes cast in order to be elected. Each voter had as many votes as there were seats to be allocated.

• Constituency: The constituencies were numbered consecutively, in the order of the cantons in the Swiss Federal Constitution . Due to the changing number of constituencies over the years, some received a new number several times. Therefore the following articles have a lemma with an unofficial geographical name.
• Selected candidates are highlighted in bold , candidates not selected are highlighted in italics

Parties

• FDP = Liberal Democratic Party
• LPS = Liberal Party of Switzerland
• KVP = Conservative People's Party
• ER = Evangelical Rights (Evangelical / Reformed Conservatives)
• DL = Democratic Left (sociopolitical group, Democratic Party )
• SP = Social Democratic Party
• DVV = Democratic-Economic Association

Results of the National Council elections

Canton of Aargau (12 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 36	3	October 25, 1914	10 961	10 215	93.2%	Johann Rudolf Suter Alwin Weber Otto Hunziker	FDP FDP FDP	6 151 6 066 6 013	72.2% 71.2% 70.6%
No. 37	4th	October 25, 1914	15,988	15 111	94.6%	Hans Siegrist Emil Keller Heinrich Eugen Abbot Conradin Zschokke	FDP FDP FDP FDP	7 748 7 735 7 319 7 169	66.1% 66.0% 62.4% 61.1%
No. 38	1	October 25, 1914	6 057	4 646	76.7%	Jakob Nietlispach	CIP	3 187	83.1%
No. 39	4th	October 25, 1914	16 979	12 976	76.5%	Alfred Wyrsch Franz Xaver Eggspühler Gustav Adolf Origin Joseph Jäger	KVP KVP FDP FDP	8 834 8 505 8 319 8 182	88.1% 84.8% 82.9% 81.6%

Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (3 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 28	3	October 25, 1914	13 643	9 178	67.3%	Arthur Eugster Johannes Eisenhut Howard Eugster	FDP FDP SP	7 409 7 162 6 901	94.1% 90.9% 87.6%

Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (1 seat)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 29	1	October 25, 1914	3 240	2 308	71.2%	Adolf Steuble	CIP	1 756	85.7%

Canton of Basel-Country (4 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 26	4th	October 25, 1914	16 843	7 911	47.0%	Heinrich Strub Hermann Straumann Albert Grieder Gustav Adolf Seiler Wilhelm Friedrich Schär Karl von Blarer	FDP FDP FDP DVV SP KVP	5 411 5 122 4 891 4 891 2 445 2 181	71.5% 67.7% 64.6% 64.6% 32.3% 28.8%

Canton of Basel-Stadt (7 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 25	7th	October 25, 1914	24 019	7 068	29.4%	Eugen Wullschleger Carl Christoph Burckhardt Isaak Iselin-Sarasin Johannes Frei Bernhard Jäggi Emil Göttisheim Christian Rothenberger	SP LPS LPS SP SP FDP FDP	5 754 5 252 5 123 5 068 5 061 4 608 4 509	86.0% 78.5% 76.6% 75.8% 75.7% 68.9% 67.4%

Canton of Bern (32 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 6	6th	October 25, 1914	26 904	7 413	27.6%	Robert Stucki Arnold Gottlieb Bühler Johann Jakob Rebmann Emil Lohner Hermann Schüpbach Johann Friedrich Michel	FDP FDP FDP FDP FDP FDP	6 308 6 192 6 078 6 075 5 904 5 659	85.0% 83.5% 81.9% 81.9% 79.6% 76.3%
No. 7	7th	October 25, 1914	35 919	9 118	25.4%	Gustav Müller Johann Hirter Johann Jenny Fritz Burren Gustav König Michael Bühler Jakob Scheidegger	SP FDP FDP ER ER FDP FDP	7 957 7 547 7 296 7 253 7 177 7 121 6 926	87.2% 82.7% 80.0% 79.5% 78.7% 78.0% 75.9%
No. 8	4th	October 25, 1914	19 531	4,057	20.8%	Friedrich Minder Fritz Bühlmann Johann Jakob Schär Fritz Zumstein	FDP FDP FDP FDP	3 605 3 601 3 551 3 378	88.8% 88.7% 87.5% 83.2%
No. 9	4th	October 25, 1914	19 742	6 057	30.7%	August Rikli Arnold Gugelmann Friedrich Buri Michael Hofer	SP FDP FDP FDP	5 669 4 985 4 836 4 792	93.5% 82.3% 79.8% 79.1%
No. 10	5	October 25, 1914	20 978	5,707	27.2%	Johann Näher Alfred Moll Jakob Freiburghaus Karl Scheurer Eduard Will	SP FDP FDP FDP FDP	4,991 4,776 4,763 4,578 4,566	87.4% 83.6% 83.4% 80.2% 80.0%
No. 11	3	October 25, 1914	14 017	4,658	33.2%	Émile Ryser Albert Locher Robert Savoye	SP FDP FDP	3 807 3 268 3 180	81.7% 70.1% 68.2%
No. 12	3	October 25, 1914	11 773	4 751	40.4%	Joseph Choquard Ernest Daucourt Henri Simonin	CIP CIP FDP	3 509 3 236 1 924	73.8% 68.1% 40.4%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	11 732	approx. 2,000	17.1%	Henri Simonin	FDP	1 683	84.1%

Canton of Friborg (7 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 22	2	October 25, 1914	10 031	3,468	34.6%	Hermann Liechti Eugène Descheneaux	FDP KVP	2,899 2,861	87.8% 86.7%
No. 23	5	October 25, 1914	21 564	7 825	36.3%	Jean-Marie Musy Max de Diesbach A.-F.-L. Cailler Eugène Grand Charles de Wuilleret	KVP KVP FDP KVP KVP	7 245 7 110 7 055 7 026 6 893	95.6% 93.8% 93.1% 92.7% 90.9%

Canton of Geneva (8 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 49	8th	October 25, 1914	30 750	16 279	52.9%	Gustave Ador Henri Fazy Marc-Ernest Peter Jean Sigg Firmin Ody Albert-Édouard Maunoir Horace Micheli Frédéric-Jules de Rabours Jacques-Louis Willemin Victor-Marc Charbonnet Marc-Eugène Ritzchel	LPS FDP FDP SP KVP LPS LPS LPS FDP FDP FDP	14 703 14 374 13 244 12 487 11 818 08 646 08 197 07 506 07 114 05 104 04 985	92.0% 90.0% 82.9% 78.2% 74.0% 54.1% 51.3% 47.0% 44.5% 31.9% 31.2%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	30 781	14 521	47.2%	Jacques-Louis Willemin Frédéric-Jules de Rabours	FDP LPS	07 607 06 411	52.3% 44.1%

Canton of Glarus (2 seats)

Constituency	Number of seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 20	2	October 25, 1914	8 151	4 650	57.1%	Eduard Blumer Heinrich Jenny	DL FDP	3 951 3,733	93.8% 88.6%

Canton of Graubünden (6 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 35	6th	October 25, 1914	28 442	13 456	47.3%	Alfred von Planta Johann Schmid Johann Anton Caflisch Eduard Walser Paul Raschein sr. Andrea Vital	LPS KVP FDP FDP FDP FDP	11 271 11 005 10 792 10 713 10 659 10 641	95.2% 93.0% 91.2% 90.5% 90.0% 89.9%

Canton of Lucerne (8 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 13	3	October 25, 1914	15 196	4,764	31.4%	Peter Knüsel Hermann Heller Otto Sidler	FDP FDP FDP	2 969 2 839 2 813	89.0% 85.1% 84.3%
No. 14	2	October 25, 1914	11 203	3 558	31.8%	Josef Anton Balmer Anton Erni	CIP CIP	3 003 2 984	95.9% 95.3%
No. 15	3	October 25, 1914	12 991	4 061	31.3%	Franz Moser-Schär Heinrich Walther Dominik Fellmann	CIP CIP CIP	3,375 3,294 3,255	95.9% 93.6% 92.5%

Canton of Neuchâtel (7 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
# 48	7th	October 25, 1914	32 364	16 931	52.4%	Eugène Bonhôte Auguste Leuba Paul-Ernest Mosimann Henri Calame Jules-Albert Piguet Charles Naine Ernest-Paul Graber	LPS FDP FDP FDP FDP SP SP	10 709 10 489 10 413 10 393 10 343 06 031 05 882	64.6% 63.2% 62.8% 62.7% 62.4% 36.3% 35.4%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	32 068	4 355	13.6%	Charles Naine Ernest-Paul Graber	SP SP	03,657 03,539	83.9% 81.2%

Canton of Nidwalden (1 seat)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 19	1	October 25, 1914	3 225	897	27.8%	Karl Niederberger	CIP	793	97.5%

Canton of Obwalden (1 seat)

Constituency	Number of seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 18	1	October 25, 1914	4 170	1 280	30.7%	Peter Anton Ming	CIP	1 014	96.2%

Canton of Schaffhausen (2 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 27	2	October 25, 1914	9 615	7 564	78.7%	Carl Spahn Robert Grieshaber	FDP FDP	4 893 4 708	95.9% 92.3%

Canton Schwyz (3 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 17	3	October 25, 1914	13 870	3 142	22.7%	Josef Anton Ferdinand Büeler Anton von Hettlingen Martin Steinegger	CIP CIP FDP	2,783 2,710 2,677	97.9% 95.4% 94.2%

Canton of Solothurn (6 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 24	6th	October 25, 1914	27 888	8 901	31.9%	Hans Affolter Siegfried Hartmann Eduard Bally Jakob Zimmermann Max Studer Adrian von Arx sr.	SP KVP FDP FDP FDP FDP	7 911 7 749 7 630 7 573 7 383 7 368	93.7% 91.8% 90.4% 89.7% 87.4% 87.3%

Canton of St. Gallen (15 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 30	4th	October 25, 1914	14 270	9 638	67.5%	Karl Emil Wild J. A. Scherrer-Füllemann Eduard Scherrer Albert Mächler	FDP DL FDP FDP	7 228 7 215 7 197 7 161	93.3% 93.1% 92.9% 92.4%
No. 31	4th	October 25, 1914	13 904	9 904	71.2%	Ernst Schmidheiny Carl Zurburg Johann Baptist Eisenring Heinrich Otto Weber	FDP KVP KVP DL	6 884 6 835 6 798 6 529	91.5% 90.9% 90.4% 86.8%
No. 32	3	October 25, 1914	16 943	11 687	69.0%	Gallus Schwendener Ernst Wagner Robert Forrer	FDP FDP FDP	8 515 8 511 8 371	94.6% 94.5% 93.0%
No. 33	2	October 25, 1914	10 349	7 171	69.3%	Johann Baptist Schubiger Emil Grünenfelder	CIP CIP	4 915 4617	92.4% 86.8%
No. 34	2	October 25, 1914	9 393	7 056	75.1%	Othmar Staub Thomas Holenstein sr.	CIP CIP	5,408 5,348	94.7% 93.6%

Canton Ticino (8 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 41	4th	October 25, 1914	19 192	7 157	37.3%	Emilio Bossi Achille Borella Francesco Vassalli Angelo Tarchini Luigi Balestra	FDP FDP FDP KVP KVP	3 492 3 457 3 309 2 940 0970	51.3% 50.8% 48.6% 43.2% 14.2%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	19 234	5 693	29.6%	Francesco Vassalli Angelo Tarchini	FDP KVP	3084 2897	54.1% 50.8%
No. 42	4th	October 25, 1914	21 433	4 839	22.6%	Evaristo Garbani-Nerini Brenno Bertoni Francesco Balli Giuseppe Cattori	FDP FDP LPS KVP	2 251 2 213 2 144 2 096	51.7% 50.9% 49.3% 48.2%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	21 444	2 433	11.4%	Francesco Balli Giuseppe Cattori	LPS KVP	2 255 2 213	92.6% 90.9%

Canton Thurgau (7 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 40	7th	October 25, 1914	29 111	22 930	78.8%	Emil Hofmann Carl Eigenmann Alfons von Streng Oskar Ullmann Heinrich Häberlin Jakob Müller Jakob Zingg Hermann Traber Eduard Fehr Otto Höppli Heinrich Schenkel Alfred Gubler	DL independent KVP FDP FDP FDP independent CIP independent SP DL independent	17 872 17 663 17 548 17 500 17 431 16 978 05 226 04 623 03 764 03 710 02 115 01 820	88.1% 87.0% 86.5% 86.2% 85.9% 83.7% 25.7% 22.7% 18.5% 18.2% 10.4% 08.9%
		November 8, 1914 (2nd ballot)	28 936	21 598	74.7%	Jakob Zingg Rudolf Huber Otto Höppli	FDP FDP SP	09 191 06 372 05 154	42.5% 29.5% 23.8%

Canton Uri (1 seat)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 16	1	October 25, 1914	4,862	4 008	82.4%	Martin Gamma Karl Huber	FDP KVP	2,242 1,563	58.5% 40.8%

Canton of Vaud (16 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 43	8th	October 25, 1914	34 878	12 908	37.0%	Alois de Meuron Édouard Secretan Paul Maillefer Charles-Eugène Fonjallaz Émile Gaudard Alexandre Emery Alfred Pilliod Félix Bonjour Sidney Schopfer	LPS LPS FDP FDP FDP LPS FDP FDP otherwise.	9 807 9 560 9 474 9 323 9 168 9 134 9 116 6 486 5 549	80.3% 78.3% 77.6% 76.3% 75.1% 74.8% 74.7% 53.1% 45.4%
No. 44	5	October 25, 1914	23 743	8 752	36.9%	Ernest Chuard Louis Reymond Armand Piguet Henri Grobet Fritz Bosset	FDP FDP LPS FDP FDP	8 218 8 101 8 037 7 918 7 909	95.5% 94.1% 93.4% 92.0% 91.9%
No. 45	3	October 25, 1914	14 072	5 381	38.2%	Jean Yersin John-Henri Mermoud Alfred Jaton	LPS FDP FDP	5 110 5 094 5 070	96.5% 96.2% 95.8%

Canton of Valais (6 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 46	4th	October 25, 1914	18 776	9 064	48.3%	Alexander Seiler Joseph Kuntschen sr. Raymond Evéquoz Charles de Preux	CIP CIP CIP CIP	8 609 8 274 7 777 7 021	96.3% 92.5% 87.0% 78.5%
No. 47	2	October 25, 1914	12 072	4,791	39.7%	Jules Tissières Eugène de Lavallaz	KVP FDP	4024 3993	85.6% 84.9%

Canton of Zug (1 seat)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 21	1	October 25, 1914	6 718	1 421	21.2%	Hermann Stadlin	FDP	1 097	100.0%

Canton of Zurich (25 seats)

Constituency	Seats	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
number 1	7th	October 25, 1914	32 243	10 472	32.5%	Robert Billeter Alfred Frey Emil Zürcher Walter Bissegger Robert Schmid Jakob Lutz Friedrich Fritschi	FDP FDP DL FDP FDP DL DL	9 051 8 919 8 859 8 813 8 782 8 686 8 664	86.4% 85.1% 84.5% 84.1% 83.8% 82.9% 82.7%
No. 2	5	October 25, 1914	19 482	5,940	30.5%	Herman Greulich Robert Seidel Paul Pflüger Robert Grimm Johannes Sigg	SP SP SP SP SP	5 154 5 025 5 005 4 924 4 916	86.7% 84.5% 84.2% 82.8% 82.7%
No. 3	5	October 25, 1914	24 812	8 590	34.6%	Johann Rudolf Amsler Heinrich Hess Karl August Koller Theodor Odinga Emil Rellstab	LPS DL FDP FDP FDP	7 881 7 766 7 739 7 721 7 568	91.7% 90.4% 90.0% 89.8% 88.1%
No. 4	5	October 25, 1914	25 566	11 300	44.2%	Friedrich Studer Hans Sträuli Hans Schenkel Friedrich Ottiker Julius Guyer	SP DL SP DL FDP	9 198 8 811 8 732 8 536 8 233	81.3% 77.9% 77.2% 75.5% 72.8%
No. 5	3	October 25, 1914	13 504	4,792	35.5%	Johann Konrad Hörni Jakob Walder David Ringger	DL DL DL	4,441 4,389 04,356	92.6% 91.5% 90.9%

Replacement elections until 1917

Due to vacancies during the following 23rd legislative period, twelve substitute elections were held in ten constituencies .

Constituency / canton	Replacement for	date	Eligible voters	Number of voters	Wahlbe- pation	Elected and unelected	Political party	be right	proportion of
No. 1 (ZH)	Walter Bissegger	June 27, 1915	32 920	10 511	31.9%	Albert Meyer	FDP	07 348	69.9%
	Robert Billeter	April 22, 1917	36 444	18 643	51.2%	John Syz Emil Klöti	FDP SP	09 207 08 102	49.4% 43.5%
		May 13, 1917 (2nd ballot)	36 556	24 130	66.0%	John Syz Emil Klöti	FDP SP	11 983 11 211	49.7% 46.5%
No. 2 (ZH)	Johannes Sigg	November 19, 1916	21 687	11 309	52.1%	Anton Rimathé	SP	06 664	58.9%
No. 5 (ZH)	Jakob Walder	April 18, 1915	13 869	8 897	64.2%	Friedrich Bopp Eduard Schäubli Johannes Meyer-Rusca	otherwise. SP DL	04,549 02,848 01,429	51.1% 32.0% 16.1%
No. 13 (LU)	Hermann Heller	August 19, 1917	15 872	1 895	11.9%	Gustav Schaller	FDP	01,844	97.3%
No. 14 (LU)	Anton Erni	August 13, 1916	11 404	02,719	23.8%	Eduard Häfliger	CIP	02,714	99.8%
No. 23 (FR)	Max de Diesbach	May 28, 1916	21 494	04,791	22.3%	Franz Boschung	CIP	04 630	96.6%
No. 25 (BS)	Carl Christoph Burckhardt	April 24, 1915	25 702	8 204	31.9%	Paul Speiser	LPS	07 881	96.1%
	Bernhard Jäggi	February 18, 1917	27 914	11 551	41.4%	Rudolf Gelpke Franz Welti	otherwise. SP	06,495 03,000	56.2% 43.3%
No. 35 (GR)	Alfred von Planta	March 7, 1915	27 483	13 925	50.7%	Alois Steinhauser	CIP	13 335	95.8%
No. 42 (TI)	Giuseppe Cattori	May 9, 1915	20 851	2 197	10.5%	Alfonso Chicherio	CIP	02 092	95.2%
No. 43 (VD)	Charles-Eugène Fonjallaz	May 4, 1917	35 423	4 396	12.4%	Isaac Oyex	FDP	03 818	86.6%

Remarks

1. ^ Agrarian, joined the free-thinking democratic faction
2. ↑ ^{a b} Candidate for the evangelical right, joined the liberal faction.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jeunes radicaux (Young Liberals)
4. ↑ Estrema sinistra (extreme left)
5. ↑ ^{a b c supported} by the agricultural association
6. ↑ ^{a b supported} by the young liberals
7. ↑ supported by the trade association
8. ↑ dissident liberals
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} joined the free-thinking democratic parliamentary group
10. ↑ Peasant Party
11. ↑ Citizens' Party

source

• Erich Gruner : The elections to the Swiss National Council 1848-1919 . tape 3 . Francke Verlag, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7720-1445-3 , p. 312-323 .

Web links

• Directory of the members of the Swiss National Council (Federal Gazette of December 9, 1914)