Swiss parliamentary elections 1963

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1959General election of
the National Council in 1963
1967
Turnout: 66.1%
 %
30th
20th
10
0
26.62
23.94
23.41
11.35
5.01
2.24
2.19
1.77
1.63
1.83
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1959
 % p
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+0.24
+0.27
+0.09
-0.21
-0.49
-0.09
-0.49
-0.38
+0.20
+0.87
Otherwise.
Bundeshaus in Bern:
seat of the Swiss parliament

The Swiss parliamentary elections in 1963 took place on October 27, 1963. The new 200 mandates of the National Council and 31 of the 44 mandates in the Council of States were to be reassigned. This 37th legislative period lasted four years until October 1967.

These elections were marked by extreme stability. No party lost or won more than two National Council seats. The conservative-Christian-Democratic camp reached a record level that has not been reached until today, with a voter share of 23.4% and 48 elected conservative-Christian-social national councilors.

There were no major changes in the Council of States either. The SP was able to win back one of the two seats it had lost in the previous legislature, and the non-party members disappeared from the Small Chamber.

The turnout in the 1963 National Council elections reached 66.1%, its lowest level at the time since the introduction of proportional representation in 1919, but fell even further in subsequent elections and reached its temporary low in 1995 at 42.2%.

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 29th. There were several second ballots. In the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden , Glarus , Nidwalden and Obwalden , the municipalities elected the Council of States. The cantons of Graubünden and Zug had different election dates. In the cantons of Bern , Friborg , Neuchâtel and St. Gallen , the Council of States were elected by the cantonal parliament. In the cantons of Geneva and Neuchâtel, women were eligible to vote in the Council of States election.

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 as so-called “additional votes” to the list he has elected. 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 256,063 voters). An Aargau “voter” can also consist of 13 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. 47 of November 28, 1963.

Parties, voters, seats

The nationwide results were as follows:

4th
53
10
2
4th
48
51
6th
22nd
4th 53 10 4th 48 51 6th 22nd 
A total of 200 seats
Political party Voters % (+/-) Seats (+/-)
Social Democratic Party 256,063 26.62% + 0.24% 53 +2
Liberal Democratic Party 230'200 23.94% + 0.27% 51 ± 0
Conservative Christian Social People's Party 225'160 23.41% +0.09% 48 +1
Farmers, trade and citizens' party 109,202 11.35% −0.21% 22nd −1
National Ring of Independents 48'224 5.01% −0.49% 10 ± 0
Liberal Party of Switzerland 21,501 2.24% −0.09% 6th +1
Party of labor 21,088 2.19% −0.49% 4th +1
Democratic Party 16,978 1.77% −0.38% 4th ± 0
Evangelical People's Party 15,690 1.63% + 0.20% 2 ± 0
Non-party Protestant-Christian citizens (AG, BE, ZH) 5'472 0.57% +0.57% 0 ± 0
Swiss people's movement against foreign infiltration (ZH) 3,190 0.33% + 0.33% 0 ± 0
Campaign Canton Basel (BS) 2,962 0.31% −0.02% 0 ± 0
Free voters (AG) 2,067 0.21% + 0.04% 0 ± 0
List for cleanliness in politics (ZH) 1,259 0.13% + 0.13% 0 ± 0
Mouvement pour la démocratie économique et sociale (MDES) (GE) 1 1,067 0.11% + 0.11% 0 ± 0
Non-partisan Union (ZH) 661 0.07% +0.07% 0 ± 0
New Gotthardring (ZH) 218 0.02% +0.02% 0 ± 0
Swiss People's Party (ZH) 129 0.01% + 0.01% 0 ± 0
Isolated votes in single constituencies 618 0.06% + 0.01% 0 ± 0
Total 961,749 100% 200 +4
1in German (by analogy): Movement for social and economic democracy

Distribution of seats in the cantons

Canton Total SP FDP CIP BGB LdU LPS Dem PdA EPP
Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau 13 4th 3 3 2 1
Canton of Appenzell AusserrhodenCanton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden 2 2 1 1
Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden 1 1
Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country 5 2 +1 1 1 1
Canton of Basel-StadtCanton of Basel-Stadt Basel city 8th 3 2 1 1 1
Canton BernCanton Bern Bern 33 12 6th 2 11 2
Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg 6th 1 2 +1 3 −1 0 −1
Canton of GenevaCanton of Geneva Geneva 10 2 +1 2 −1 2 +1 2 +1 2
Canton of GlarusCanton of Glarus Glarus 2 2 1 1
canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Grisons 5 0 −1 1 2 2
Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne 9 1 +1 3 −1 5
Canton of NeuchâtelCanton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel 5 2 2 1
Canton of NidwaldenCanton of Nidwalden Nidwalden 1 1
Canton of ObwaldenCanton of Obwalden Obwalden 1 1
Canton of SchaffhausenCanton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen 2 2 1 1
Canton of SchwyzCanton of Schwyz Schwyz 3 1 2
Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn 7th 2 3 2
Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen St. Gallen 13 2 4th 6th 1
Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino 7th 1 3 3
Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau 6th 2 1 1 2
Canton of UriCanton of Uri Uri 1 1
Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud 16 4th −1 6th 1 1 2 2 +1
Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais 7th 1 1 5
Canton of ZugCanton of Zug train 2 1 1
Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich 35 10 +1 6th +1 5 +1 5 5 2 2
Switzerland 200 53 +2 51 ± 0 48 +1 22nd −1 10 ± 0 6th +1 4th ± 0 4th +1 2 ± 0

Results of the Council of States elections

Distribution of seats

The elected members of the Council of States are listed in Federal Gazette No. 47 of November 28, 1963.

3
3
18th
13
3
4th
18th 13 4th 
A total of 44 seats
Political party Elections 1963 Elections 1959
KCVP 18th 17th
FDP 13 13
BGB 4th 3
DP 3 1
LPS 3 3
PLC 3 4th
Non-party 0 3

Elected Councils of State

Canton 1. Seat of the Council of States 2. Seat of the Council of States
Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau Ernst Bachmann , (previously) Robert Reimann , KCVP (new)
Canton of Appenzell AusserrhodenCanton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden Hans Nänny , FDP (new) only one seat
Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Carl Dobler , KCVP (new) only one seat
Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country Emil Müller , SP (previously) only one seat
Canton of Basel-StadtCanton of Basel-Stadt Basel city Eugen Dietschi , FDP (previously) only one seat
Canton BernCanton Bern Bern Dewet Buri , BGB (previously) Charles Jeanneret , FDP (previously)
Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg Jean Bourgknecht , KCVP (previously) Paul Torche , KCVP (previously)
Canton of GenevaCanton of Geneva Geneva Alfred Borel , FDP (new) Éric Choisy , LPS (previously)
Canton of GlarusCanton of Glarus Glarus Heinrich Heer , DP (previously) Fridolin Stucki , DP (previously)
canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Grisons Gion Darms , KCVP (previously) Arno Theus , BGB (previously)
Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne Christian Clavadetscher , FDP (previously) Peter Müller , KCVP (previously)
Canton of NeuchâtelCanton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Jean-Louis Barrelet , FDP (previously) Blaise Clerc , LPS (new)
Canton of NidwaldenCanton of Nidwalden Nidwalden Werner Christen , KCVP (previously) only one seat
Canton of ObwaldenCanton of Obwalden Obwalden Gotthard Odermatt , KCVP (previously) only one seat
Canton of SchaffhausenCanton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen Kurt Bächtold , FDP (previously) Konrad Graf , BGB (new)
Canton of SchwyzCanton of Schwyz Schwyz Dominik Auf der Maur , KCVP (previously) Heinrich Oechslin , CVP (previously)
Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn Karl Obrecht , FDP (previously) Werner Vogt , SP (new)
Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen St. Gallen Rudolf Mäder , KCVP (previously) Willi Rohner , FDP (previously)
Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino Ferruccio Bolla , FDP (new) Alberto Stefani , KCVP (new)
Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau Heinrich Herzog , BGB (new) Jakob Müller , FDP (previously)
Canton of UriCanton of Uri Uri Ludwig Danioth , KCVP (previously) Emil Wipfli , CVP (previously)
Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud Gabriel Despland , FDP (so far) Louis Guisan , LPS (new)
Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais Leo Guntern , KCVP / CSP (previously) Marius Lampert , KCVP (previously)
Canton of ZugCanton of Zug train Augustin Lusser , KCVP (previously) Alois Zehnder , KCVP (previously)
Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich Rudolf Meier , BGB (previously) Eduard Zellweger , SP (new)

Political groups in the 37th parliamentary term

Political groups are associations of one or more parties. At least 5 mandates are required to form a parliamentary group. The table below shows the status at the beginning of the legislative period.

fraction total National Council Council of States
Conservative-Christian Social Group 66 48 18th
Radical Democratic Group (FDP) 64 51 13
social democratic group 56 53 3
Farmers, trades and citizens' factions 26th 22nd 4th
Fraction of the state ring 10 10 0
Liberal Democratic Group 9 6th 3
Democratic and Protestant parliamentary groups 9 6th 3
without party affiliation 4th 4th 0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Table «National Council elections: voter turnout, 1919–2015»
  2. ^ Members of the National Council, pp. 1155–1247
  3. Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland 1965, pages 528 to 535
  4. ^ Members of the Council of States, pages 1248–1250
  5. ^ Parliamentary groups since 1912