Swiss parliamentary elections 1935

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Turnout: 78.3%

 %

30th

20th

10

0

28.01

23.72

20.26

10.98

4.14

3.34

3.08

1.38

1.21

3.88

SP

FDP

CIP

BGB

LdU

LPS

JB

KPS

FWB

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1931

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

-0.71

-3.22

-1.12

-4.29

+4.14

+0.49

+3.08

-0.10

+1.21

+0.52

SP

FDP

CIP

BGB

LdU

LPS

JB

KPS

FWB

Otherwise.

Bundeshaus in Bern:
seat of the Swiss parliament

The Swiss parliamentary elections in 1935 took place on October 27, 1935. All 187 mandates of the National Council and 25 of the 44 mandates in the Council of States were to be newly awarded. This 30th legislative period lasted four years until October 1939.

In these elections, which were shaped by the global economic crisis , the traditional parties were harassed by numerous new forces with a wide variety of ideological orientations. Among these were politically left-wing splits from the bourgeois resp. rural milieu (free economists / liberal socialists, young farmers / farmers' homeland movement, general people's list St. Gallen) as well as several parties of the front movement , which are at the national socialism resp. Fascism oriented. Most successful, however, was the state ring of the independents / LdU from Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler , which immediately won seven seats in the National Council. The clear losers in the election were the BGB, in which the share of the vote and the number of seats fell by a third, and the FDP, which lost four seats. Because of the liberal losses, the SP provided the strongest National Council delegation for the first time, although it too suffered a slight decline.

In the Council of States, the FDP lost 4 of its 19 seats. The Catholic Conservatives became the strongest party for the first time - a position that they (or their successor parties) would hold until 1991. The two Councils of State elected as Democrats did not join the Free and Democratic Group, in which the DP and young farmers united.

The average turnout in the National Council elections in 1935 fell slightly to 78.3%, with cantonal values ​​between 50.3% in Obwalden and 91.2% 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 25th. 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. SP rounded to 255,843 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. 49 of December 4, 1935.

Parties, voters, seats

The nationwide results were as follows:

2

50

4th

3

1

7th

1

48

6th

42

21st

2

2 50 4th 3 1 7th 1 48 6th 42 21st 2 

A total of 187 seats

• KPS : 2
• SP : 50
• JB : 4
• DP : 3
• AVL : 1
• LdU : 7
• EVP : 1
• FDP : 48
• LPS : 6
• KVP : 42
• BGB : 21
• Front : 2

Strongest parties in the cantons and distribution of seats

Political party	Voters	%	(+/-)	Seats	(+/-)
Social Democratic Party	255,843	28.01%	−0.71%	50	+1
Liberal Democratic Party	216,664	23.72%	−3.22%	48	−4
Conservative People's Party	185,052	20.26%	−1.12%	42	−2
Farmers, trade and citizens' parties	100,300	10.98%	−4.29%	21st	−9
National Ring of Independents	37,861	4.14%	4.14%	7th	+7
Liberal Party of Switzerland	30,476	3.34%	+ 0.49%	6th	± 0
Young farmers movement	28'161	3.08%	+ 3.08%	4th	+4
Communist Party of Switzerland	12,569	1.38%	−0.10%	2	± 0
Swiss Free Trade Association (ZH, BE, BS, BL)	11'078	1.21%	+1.21%	0	± 0
National Front (ZH, SH, BE) 1	9,650	1.06%	+1.06%	1	+1
Democratic Party	9,452	1.03%	+0.06%	3	+1
Evangelical People's Party	6,780	0.74%	−0.24%	1	± 0
Union national (GE) 2	2,704	0.30%	+ 0.30%	1	+1
General People's List (SG)	2,227	0.24%	+ 0.24%	1	+1
Parti indépendant progressiste (VD) 3	1,469	0.16%	+ 0.16%	0	± 0
Parti progressiste national (NE)	1'213	0.13%	−0.14%	0	± 0
List Jung Thurgau (TG)	812	0.09%	+0.09%	0	± 0
List d'action hélvétique (VS) 4	574	0.06%	+0.06%	0	± 0
National Democrats (ZH)	192	0.02%	+0.02%	0	± 0
Action Committee for Interest Rate Reduction (BL)	98	0.01%	+ 0.01%	0	± 0
Nouvel ordre politique national (GE) 5	59	0.01%	+ 0.01%	0	± 0
Isolated votes in single constituencies	289	0.03%	−0.02%	0	± 0
Total	913,523	100%		187	± 0

¹Including the joint National Renewal List of the National Front and the Swiss Homeland Army in the Canton of Bern.

² Part of the front movement

³ in German: Independent Progressive Party

^4th in German (by analogy): List of Helvetic Action

⁵ in German (analogously): New National Political Order

Distribution of seats in the cantons

Canton	Total	SP		FDP		CIP		BB		LdU		LPS		JB		Dem		KPS		Front 1		EPP		AVL 2		KPS-O 3
Aargau	12	4th		2		3		2	−1					1	+1
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	2	1		1
Appenzell Innerrhoden	1					1
Basel-Country	4th	2	+1	2				0	−1
Basel city	7th	3	+1	1		1		0	−1			1						1
Bern	31	11	+1	4th	−1	1		11	−4	1	+1			3	+3
Freiburg	7th			2	+1	5	−1
Geneva	8th	3	−1	2		1						1								1	+1
Glarus	2			1												1
Grisons	6th	0	−1	1	−1	3	+1									2	+1
Lucerne	9	1		3		5
Neuchâtel	6th	3		2								1
Nidwalden	1					1
Obwalden	1					1
Schaffhausen	2	1	+1	1	+1			0	−1																	0	−1
Schwyz	3			1		2
Solothurn	7th	2		3		2
St. Gallen	13	2	−1	4th		5	−1			1	+1													1	+1
Ticino	7th	1		3		3
Thurgau	6th	2	+1	1		1		2	−1
Uri	1			1
Vaud	15th	4th		6th	−1			2	+1			3
Valais	6th	1	+1	1		4th	−1
train	2			1		1
Zurich	28	9	−2	5	−3	2		4th	−1	5	+5							1		1	+1	1
Switzerland	187	50	+1	48	−4	42	−2	21st	−9	7th	+7	6th	± 0	4th	+4	3	+1	2	± 0	2	+2	1	± 0	1	+1	0	−1

¹GE: Union nationale , ZH: Nationale Front

² General people list

³The KPS-O disbanded between 1931 and 1935, and its members (including National Councilor Walther Bringolf ) had joined the SP

Results of the Council of States elections

The elected members of the Council of States are listed in the Federal Gazette of December 4, 1935.

Distribution of seats

3

2

15th

2

19th

3

3 2 15th 2 19th 3 

A total of 44 seats

• SP : 3
• DP : 2
• FDP : 15
• LPS : 2
• KVP : 19
• BGB : 3

Political party	Elections 1935	Elections 1931
PLC	3	2
CIP	19th	18th
LPS	2	1
FDP	15th	19th
DP	2	1
BGB	3	3

Elected Councils of State

Canton	1. Seat of the Council of States	2. Seat of the Council of States
Aargau	Hans Fricker , CIP (new)	Gottfried Keller , FDP (previously)
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	Walter Ackermann , FDP (new)	only one seat
Appenzell Innerrhoden	Carl Rusch , KVP (previously)	only one seat
Basel-Country	Walter Schaub , SP (new)	only one seat
Basel city	Gustav Wenk , SP (new)	only one seat
Bern	Henri Mouttet , FDP (new)	Jakob Rudolf Weber , BGB (new)
Freiburg	Joseph Piller , KVP (new)	Bernard Weck , KVP (previously)
Geneva	Albert Malche , FDP (previously)	Auguste-Edouard-Frédéric Martin , LPS (new)
Glarus	Edwin Hauser , DP (previously)	Philippe Mercier , FDP (so far)
Grisons	Albert Lardelli , DP (new)	Georg Willi , KVP (new)
Lucerne	Gotthard Egli , KVP (new)	Albert Status , CIP (previously)
Neuchâtel	Ernest Béguin , FDP (so far)	Marcel de Coulon , LPS (new)
Nidwalden	Anton Zumbühl , KVP (previously)	only one seat
Obwalden	Walter Amstalden , CIP (previously)	only one seat
Schaffhausen	Hans Käser , FDP (previously)	Johannes Winzeler , BGB (previously)
Schwyz	Martin Ochsner , CIP (previously)	Adolf Suter , KVP (previously)
Solothurn	Hugo Dietschi , FDP (previously)	Robert Schöpfer , FDP (so far)
St. Gallen	Ernst Löpfe , FDP (new)	Josef Schöbi , KVP (new)
Ticino	Arnaldo Luigi Bolla , FDP (new)	Antonio Luigi Riva , KVP (previously)
Thurgau	Paul Altwegg , FDP (new)	Eduard Pfister , BGB (new)
Uri	Leo Meyer , KVP (new)	Ludwig Walker , CIP (previously)
Vaud	Norbert Bosset , FDP (previously)	Louis Chamorel , FDP (previously)
Valais	Pierre Barman , KVP (previously)	Ramond Evéquoz , KVP (previously)
train	Alphons Iten , CIP (new)	Alois Müller , CIP (new)
Zurich	Emil Klöti , SP (previously)	Oskar Wettstein , FDP (new)

Political groups in the 30th 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)	63	48	15th
Catholic Conservatives	61	42	19th
Social democrats	53	50	3
Farmers, trades and citizens' factions	24	21st	3
Liberal Democratic Group	9	7th	2
Free and Democratic Group (DP, JB)	7th	7th	0
independent parliamentary group (LdU)	7th	7th	0
without party affiliation	7th	5	2

Web links

• Federal Gazette No. 49 of December 4, 1935 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. 679–753.
4. ^ Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 342 kB) Univ. Bern, Historisches Institut, licentiate thesis [Brigitte Studer], 2002, slightly abbreviated in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte , 01/03, ISSN 0005-9420 , pp. 11-12, 24.   
5. ↑ National Council elections: distribution of mandates by party and canton. Federal Statistical Office, December 1, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2017 . 
6. ^ Members of the Council of States, pp. 754–756.
7. ^ Parliamentary groups since 1912