Swiss parliamentary elections 1928

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Turnout: 78.8%

 %

30th

20th

10

0

27.36

27.36

21.44

15.78

2.95

1.84

1.33

0.70

0.42

0.82

SP

FDP

CIP

BGB

LPS

KPS

DP

EPP

PPN

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1925

 % p

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

+1.51

-0.41

+0.53

+0.21

-0.04

-0.16

-0.38

-0.23

-0.07

-0.99

SP

FDP

CIP

BGB

LPS

KPS

DP

EPP

PPN

Otherwise.

Bundeshaus in Bern:
seat of the Swiss parliament

The Swiss parliamentary elections in 1928 took place on October 28, 1928. All 198 mandates of the National Council and 25 of the 44 mandates in the Council of States were to be newly awarded. This 28th legislative period lasted three years until October 1931.

In the National Council elections, the SP won (just) more votes than the FDP for the first time, but still held significantly fewer seats than the latter. The Catholic Conservatives (plus four) won the largest number of seats. In addition to the FDP, the losers in the elections also included liberals, democrats and communists.

In the two cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Glarus there was a silent election , as there were only as many candidatures as there were seats to be awarded.

The BGB won two seats in the Council of States. The FDP lost one of its 21 seats and the SP lost both of its seats. A representative of the far right UDE was elected in the canton of Geneva .

The average turnout in the 1928 National Council elections was 78.8%, with cantonal values ​​between 22.9% in Nidwalden and 92.5% in Schaffhausen.

Election mode

National Council

The national councils have been elected according to the proportional representation system since 1919 . H. the seats are distributed in the individual cantons according to the proportion of voters on the party lists and only within the list according to the individual votes. The number of seats per canton is determined based on the number of inhabitants.

More detailed on this: National Council (Switzerland) - electoral process

Council of States

Every canton has elected two representatives for the Council of States since 1848 (former half-cantons : one representative). The elections to the Council of States are based on cantonal law. In most of the cantons, the cantons were also elected on October 28th. In the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden , Glarus , Nidwalden and Obwalden , the municipalities elected the Council of States in spring. The cantons not only had different election dates, but also terms of office of different lengths (1–4 years). In the cantons of Bern (November session ), Friborg (1 person in the May session, 1 person in the November session), Neuchâtel (on the same day with the National Council elections) and St. Gallen (in the spring session), the Council of States were elected by the cantonal parliament. In all other cantons, the Council of States was determined in ballot boxes, usually on the same day as the National Council elections. In deviation from this, the voters in the cantons of Graubünden (first Sunday in March), Ticino (last Sunday in February) and Zug (in November) voted .

More detailed on this: Council of States - electoral procedure

Results National Council

Notes on voter numbers

In the multi-person constituencies, each voter has as many votes as there are seats available in his canton (34 in the canton of Bern, 2 in the canton of Zug). He can assign these votes to any candidate on the lists that are standing for election ( panaschieren ). One vote for a candidate is also one vote for his party. If a voter has not given all of his votes to candidates, these votes go to the list chosen by him as so-called "additional votes". If the voter does not select a list, but uses a so-called "ballot slip without party name" - also known as a blank list - unused votes expire (so-called empty votes).

In order to obtain results that are comparable across cantons, the number of fictitious voters per canton and party must first be calculated. And the sum of all fictitious voters of the individual cantons is then the voters at the state level (e.g. FDP rounded to 220,141 voters). An Aargau "voter" can also consist of 12 people who only have one candidate from the party concerned on their list.

The Federal Statistical Office therefore uses the term "fictitious voter" for the voter, since an effective voter can only be a partial voter. The number of voters corresponds to the number of valid ballot papers. At the canton level, the sum of all party votes (sum of the candidate votes of candidates from a party plus additional votes = empty fields in a party list) is the basis for calculation. Example: Party A gets 12,000 in canton X, party B 27,000 and party C 48,000 out of 87,000 party votes. The number of valid ballot papers is 25,000.Thus, party A has 3,448.28 (12,000: 87,000 × 25,000), party B 7,758.62 (27,000: 87,000 × 25,000) and party C 13,793.10 (48,000: 87,000 × 25,000) in this canton. fictional voters. All three parties together have a total of 25,000 voters.

The elected members of the National Council are listed in Federal Gazette No. 48 of November 28, 1928.

Parties, voters, seats

The nationwide results were as follows:

2

50

1

2

1

58

6th

46

31

1

2 50 1 2 1 58 6th 46 31 1 

A total of 198 seats

• KPS : 2
• SP : 50
• EVP : 1
• DP : 2
• PPN : 1
• FDP : 58
• LPS : 6
• KVP : 46
• BGB : 31
• UDE : 1

Strongest parties in the cantons and distribution of seats

Political party	Voters	%	(+/-)	Seats	(+/-)
Social Democratic Party	220,141	27.36%	+1.51%	50	+1
Liberal Democratic Party	220'135	27.36%	−0.41%	58	−2
Conservative People's Party	172,516	21.44%	+0.53%	46	+4
Farmers, trade and citizens' parties 1	126,961	15.78%	+ 0.21%	31	+1
Liberal Party of Switzerland	23,752	2.95%	−0.04%	6th	−1
Communist Party of Switzerland	14,818	1.84%	−0.16%	2	−1
Democratic Party	10,683	1.33%	−0.38%	2	−2
Evangelical People's Party	5,618	0.70%	−0.23%	1	± 0
Parti progressiste national (NE)	3,390	0.42%	−0.07%	1	± 0
Union de défense économique et d'action nationale (GE) 2	2,896	0.36%	−0.76%	1	± 0
Free Evangelical Social (ZH)	1,185	0.15%	+ 0.15%	0	± 0
Democratic Progressive Party (SG)	1,043	0.13%	+ 0.13%	0	± 0
(Independent) Radical Party Baselland (BL)	769	0.10%	+ 0.10%	0	± 0
List of debtors, tenants and tenants (BL)	109	0.01%	+ 0.01%	0	± 0
Isolated votes in single constituencies	591	0.07%	−0.01%	0	± 0
Total	804,607	100%		198	± 0

¹ including: Paysans, artisans et bourgeois jurassiens (German: Jurassic farmers, trade and citizens' party)

² in German (by analogy): Association for the Defense of (Free) Economy and National Power

Distribution of seats in the cantons

Canton	Total	FDP		SP		CIP		BB		LPS		Dem		KPS		EPP		PPN		UDE
Aargau	12	2		4th		3		3
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	3	2		1
Appenzell Innerrhoden	1					1
Basel-Country	4th	1	−1	1		1	+1	1
Basel city	7th	1		2		1		1		1				1
Bern	34	6th		11	−1	2		15th	+1
Freiburg	7th	2				5
Geneva	9	2		3		1				2										1
Glarus	2	1										1
Grisons	6th	2		1	+1	2	−1					1
Lucerne	9	3		1		5
Neuchâtel	7th	2		3						1								1
Nidwalden	1					1
Obwalden	1					1
Schaffhausen	3	1						1						1
Schwyz	3	1		0	−1	2	+1
Solothurn	7th	3		2		2
St. Gallen	15th	5		3		7th	+1					0	−1
Ticino	8th	4th		1		3
Thurgau	7th	1		2	+1	1		3				0	−1
Uri	1	1
Vaud	16	8th		4th				2	+1	2	−1
Valais	6th	1	−1			5	+1
train	2	1				1
Zurich	27	8th		11	+1	2	+1	5	−1					0	−1	1
Switzerland	198	58	−2	50	+1	46	+4	31	+1	6th	−1	2	−2	2	−1	1	± 0	1	± 0	1	± 0

Results of the Council of States elections

The elected members of the Council of States are listed in the Federal Gazette of November 28, 1928.

Distribution of seats

1

20th

1

18th

3

1

1 20th 1 18th 3 1 

A total of 44 seats

• DP : 1
• FDP : 20
• LPS : 1
• KVP : 18
• BGB : 3
• UDE : 1

Political party	Elections 1928	Elections 1925
PLC	0	2
CIP	18th	18th
LPS	1	1
FDP	20th	21st
BGB	3	1
DP	1	1
Otherwise.	1	0

Elected Councils of State

Canton	1. Seat of the Council of States	2. Seat of the Council of States
Aargau	Peter Emil Isler , FDP (previously)	Gottfried Keller , FDP (previously)
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	Johannes Baumann , FDP (previously)	only one seat
Appenzell Innerrhoden	Carl Rusch , KVP (previously)	only one seat
Basel-Country	Gustav Johann Schneider , FDP (previously)	only one seat
Basel city	Ernst-Alfred Thalmann , FDP (new)	only one seat
Bern	Paul Charmillot , FDP (previously)	Carl Moser , BGB (previously)
Freiburg	Emile Savoy , KVP (previously)	Bernard Weck , KVP (previously)
Geneva	Alexandre Moriaud , FDP (so far)	Jean-Martin Naef , UDE (new)
Glarus	Edwin Hauser , DP (previously)	Philippe Mercier , FDP (so far)
Grisons	Friedrich Brügger , KVP (previously)	Andreas Laely , FDP (so far)
Lucerne	Jakob Sigrist , KVP (previously)	Josef Winiger , KVP (previously)
Neuchâtel	Ernest Béguin , FDP (so far)	Pierre de Meuron , LPS (previously)
Nidwalden	Anton Zumbühl , KVP (previously)	only one seat
Obwalden	Walter Amstalden , CIP (new)	only one seat
Schaffhausen	Heinrich Bolli , FDP (previously)	Johannes Winzeler , BGB (new)
Schwyz	Martin Ochsner , CIP (previously)	Adolf Suter , CIP (new)
Solothurn	Hugo Dietschi , FDP (new)	Robert Schöpfer , FDP (so far)
St. Gallen	Johannes Geel , FDP (previously)	Anton August Messmer , KVP (previously)
Ticino	Brenno Bertoni , FDP (so far)	Antonio Luigi Riva , KVP (new)
Thurgau	Albert Böhi , FDP (previously)	Anton Schmid , BGB (new)
Uri	Isidor Meyer , KVP (new)	Ludwig Walker , CIP (new)
Vaud	Norbert Bosset , FDP (new)	Émile Dind , FDP (previously)
Valais	Pierre Barman , KVP (new)	Ramond Evéquoz , KVP (new)
train	Josef Andermatt , KVP (previously)	Josef Hildebrand , KVP (previously)
Zurich	Gustav Keller , FDP (previously)	Oskar Wettstein , FDP (previously)

Political groups in the 28th legislative period

Political groups are associations of members of parliament from one or more parties. The table below shows the status at the beginning of the legislative period.

fraction	total	National Council	Council of States
Radical Democratic Group (FDP)	78	58	20th
Catholic Conservatives	64	46	18th
Social democrats	50	50	0
Farmers, trades and citizens' factions	34	31	3
Liberal Democratic Group	7th	6th	1
Social Policy Group (DP, PPN)	4th	3	1
without party affiliation	5	4th	1

Web links

• Federal Gazette No. 48 of November 28, 1928 with the results

Individual evidence

1. ^ «National Council elections: distribution of mandates according to parties, 1919–2015»
2. ↑ Table «National Council elections: voter turnout, 1919–2015»
3. ^ Members of the National Council, pp. 957–988
4. ↑ National Council elections: distribution of mandates by party and canton. Federal Statistical Office, December 1, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2017 . 
5. ^ Members of the Council of States, pp. 989–991
6. ^ Parliamentary groups since 1912