Swiss parliamentary elections 1943
The Swiss parliamentary elections in 1943 took place on October 31, 1943. All 194 mandates of the National Council and 25 of the 44 mandates in the Council of States were to be newly awarded. This 32nd legislative period lasted four years until October 1947.
Based on the census results of 1941, 194 instead of 187 seats were awarded in the National Council. Communist parties were not allowed in these elections because the Federal Council had banned the KPS and FSS (as well as the National Socialist fronts ).
These World War II elections were marked by massive wins by the Social Democrats. They won 11 additional seats in the National Council and achieved the best result in their party history with a voter share of almost 29% (as of 2016). A smaller election winner was the Liberal Party of Switzerland with two additional mandates. The main loser was the Landesring . In the cantons of Baselland and Schwyz, two parties firmly anchored in the peasantry won a mandate from the National Council; in the canton of Zurich, the LdU was split off from the law.
In the Council of States, too, the SP was able to gain two to five seats. In contrast, the FDP lost 2 of its 14 mandates. The two Councils of State elected as Democrats joined the Democratic Group this time (to which the young farmers no longer belonged). Due to the free-spirited losses in both chambers, the CIP was the strongest parliamentary group in the Federal Assembly for the first time (national and Council of States seats combined).
The average turnout in the 1943 National Council elections was 70.0%, with cantonal values between 45.3% in Uri and 90.0% 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 251,576 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. 24 of November 25, 1943.
Parties, voters, seats
A comparison of the voting shares with the previous elections does not make sense, as there were silent elections in nine cantons in 1939 (in 1943 this was only the case in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden).
The nationwide results were as follows:
Political party | Voters | % | Seats | (+/-) |
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Social Democratic Party | 251,576 | 28.60% | 56 | +11 |
Liberal Democratic Party 1 | 197,746 | 22.48% | 47 | −2 |
Conservative People's Party | 182,916 | 20.79% | 43 | ± 0 |
Farmers, trade and citizens' party | 101,998 | 11.59% | 22nd | ± 0 |
National Ring of Independents | 41,635 | 4.73% | 6th | −3 |
Democratic Party 1 | 29,627 | 3.37% | 5 | ± 0 |
Liberal Party of Switzerland | 28'434 | 3.23% | 8th | +2 |
Young farmers movement | 18,310 | 2.08% | 3 | ± 0 |
Swiss Free Trade Association (ZH, BE, BS) | 9,031 | 1.03% | 0 | −1 |
Farmers' Association (SZ) | 4,082 | 0.46% | 1 | +1 |
Independent Free List (ZH) 2 | 6,922 | 0.79% | 1 | +1 |
Evangelical People's Party | 3,627 | 0.41% | 1 | +1 |
Baselbieter Peasant Party, EPP, Free Democratic Association Baselland, non-party (BL) | 3,207 | 0.36% | 3 1 | +1 |
Travailliste list (VD) 4 | 387 | 0.04% | 0 | ± 0 |
Isolated votes in single constituencies | 242 | 0.03% | 0 | ± 0 |
Total | 879,740 | 100% | 194 | +7 |
Distribution of seats in the cantons
Canton | Total | SP | FDP | CIP | BGB | LPS | LdU | The 5th | JB | EPP | BV 6 | UFL 7 | FSS 8 | FWB | |||||||||||||
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Aargau | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Appenzell Ausserrhoden 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appenzell Innerrhoden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basel-Country | 4th | 2 | +1 | 1 | 0 | −1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | −1 | |||||||||||||||||
Basel city | 8th | 3 | +1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | −1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bern | 33 | 13 | +3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | +1 | 0 | −1 | 2 | −1 | ||||||||||||||||
Freiburg | 7th | 1 | +1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | +1 | 0 | −1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Geneva | 8th | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 2 | +1 | 0 | −2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Glarus | 2 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 0 | −1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Grisons | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Lucerne | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Neuchâtel | 5 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nidwalden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obwalden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schaffhausen | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schwyz | 3 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | +1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Solothurn | 7th | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
St. Gallen | 13 | 2 | 4th | 5 | −1 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |||||||||||||||||||
Ticino | 7th | 2 | +1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | −1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Thurgau | 6th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Uri | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vaud | 16 | 3 | +1 | 8th | +2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | −2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Valais | 7th | 1 | 1 | 5 | +1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
train | 2 | 1 | +1 | 0 | −1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Zurich | 31 | 12 | +2 | 4th | 10 -2 | 2 | 5 | 4th | −1 | 10 2 | +2 | 1 | +1 | 1 | +1 | ||||||||||||
Switzerland | 194 | 56 | +11 | 47 | −2 | 43 | ± 0 | 22nd | ± 0 | 8th | +2 | 6th | −3 | 6th | +1 | 3 | ± 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | −4 | 0 | −1 |
Results of the Council of States elections
The elected members of the Council of States are listed in Federal Gazette No. 24 of November 25, 1943.
Distribution of seats
Political party | Elections 1943 | Elections 1939 |
---|---|---|
PLC | 5 | 3 |
CIP | 19th | 19th |
LPS | 2 | 2 |
FDP | 12 | 14th |
DP | 2 | 2 |
BGB | 4th | 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) | Karl Killer , SP (new) |
Appenzell Ausserrhoden | Walter Ackermann , FDP (previously) | only one seat |
Appenzell Innerrhoden | Armin Locher , KVP (previously) | only one seat |
Basel-Country | Walter Schaub , SP (new) | only one seat |
Basel city | Gustav Wenk , SP (previously) | only one seat |
Bern | Henri Mouttet , FDP (previously) | Jakob Rudolf Weber , BGB (previously) |
Freiburg | Joseph Piller , KVP (previously) | Bernard Weck , KVP (previously) |
Geneva | Albert Malche , FDP (previously) | Albert-Gustave Pictet , LPS (new) |
Glarus | Melchior Hefti , DP (so far) | Joachim Mercier , FDP (previously) |
Grisons | Albert Lardelli , DP (so far) | Josef Vieli , KVP (previously) |
Lucerne | Gotthard Egli , KVP (previously) | Franz-Karl Status , CIP (new) |
Neuchâtel | Marcel de Coulon , LPS (so far) | Max-Edouard Petitpierre , FDP (new) |
Nidwalden | Remigi Joller , KVP (previously) | only one seat |
Obwalden | Ludwig von Moos , CIP (new) | only one seat |
Schaffhausen | Julius Bührer , FDP (new) | Johannes Winzeler , BGB (previously) |
Schwyz | Fritz Stähli , KVP (previously) | Adolf Suter , KVP (previously) |
Solothurn | Paul Häfelin , FDP (previously) | Gottfried Klaus , SP (new) |
St. Gallen | Ernst Löpfe , FDP (previously) | Johann Schmuki , KVP (previously) |
Ticino | Antonio Antognini , KVP (new) | Bixio Bossi , FDP (new) |
Thurgau | Paul Altwegg , FDP (previously) | Erich Ullmann , BGB (previously) |
Uri | Leo Meyer , KVP (previously) | Ludwig Walker , CIP (previously) |
Vaud | Norbert Bosset , FDP (previously) | Gabriel Despland , FDP (new) |
Valais | Victor Petrig , KVP (new) | Maurice Troillet , KVP (new) |
train | Alphons Iten , KVP (previously) | Augustin Lusser , CIP (new) |
Zurich | Emil Klöti , SP (previously) | Friedrich Traugott Elections , BGB (new) |
Political groups in the 32nd 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 |
---|---|---|---|
Catholic Conservatives | 62 | 43 | 19th |
Social democrats | 61 | 56 | 5 |
Radical Democrats (FDP) | 59 | 47 | 12 |
Farmers, trades and citizens' factions | 26th | 22nd | 4th |
Liberal Democratic Group | 10 | 8th | 2 |
Democratic Group | 8th | 6th | 2 |
Fraction of the state ring | 7th | 7th | 0 |
without party affiliation | 7th | 7th | 0 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ «National Council elections: distribution of mandates according to parties, 1919–2015»
- ↑ Table «National Council elections: voter turnout, 1919–2015»
- ^ Members of the National Council, pages 1077–1157
- ↑ https://www.parlament.ch/de/biografie?CouncillorId=606
- ^ Members of the Council of States, pages 1158–1160
- ^ Parliamentary groups since 1912