Swiss parliamentary elections 1963
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:
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 |
Distribution of seats in the cantons
Canton | Total | SP | FDP | CIP | BGB | LdU | LPS | Dem | PdA | EPP | |||||||||
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Aargau | 13 | 4th | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Appenzell Ausserrhoden 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Appenzell Innerrhoden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Basel-Country | 5 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Basel city | 8th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Bern | 33 | 12 | 6th | 2 | 11 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Freiburg | 6th | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | −1 | 0 | −1 | |||||||||||
Geneva | 10 | 2 | +1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | |||||||||
Glarus 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Grisons | 5 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Lucerne | 9 | 1 | +1 | 3 | −1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Neuchâtel | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Nidwalden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Obwalden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Schaffhausen 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Schwyz | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Solothurn | 7th | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
St. Gallen | 13 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Ticino | 7th | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Thurgau | 6th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Uri | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Vaud | 16 | 4th | −1 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +1 | ||||||||||
Valais | 7th | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
train | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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.
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 |
---|---|---|
Aargau | Ernst Bachmann , (previously) | Robert Reimann , KCVP (new) |
Appenzell Ausserrhoden | Hans Nänny , FDP (new) | only one seat |
Appenzell Innerrhoden | Carl Dobler , KCVP (new) | only one seat |
Basel-Country | Emil Müller , SP (previously) | only one seat |
Basel city | Eugen Dietschi , FDP (previously) | only one seat |
Bern | Dewet Buri , BGB (previously) | Charles Jeanneret , FDP (previously) |
Freiburg | Jean Bourgknecht , KCVP (previously) | Paul Torche , KCVP (previously) |
Geneva | Alfred Borel , FDP (new) | Éric Choisy , LPS (previously) |
Glarus | Heinrich Heer , DP (previously) | Fridolin Stucki , DP (previously) |
Grisons | Gion Darms , KCVP (previously) | Arno Theus , BGB (previously) |
Lucerne | Christian Clavadetscher , FDP (previously) | Peter Müller , KCVP (previously) |
Neuchâtel | Jean-Louis Barrelet , FDP (previously) | Blaise Clerc , LPS (new) |
Nidwalden | Werner Christen , KCVP (previously) | only one seat |
Obwalden | Gotthard Odermatt , KCVP (previously) | only one seat |
Schaffhausen | Kurt Bächtold , FDP (previously) | Konrad Graf , BGB (new) |
Schwyz | Dominik Auf der Maur , KCVP (previously) | Heinrich Oechslin , CVP (previously) |
Solothurn | Karl Obrecht , FDP (previously) | Werner Vogt , SP (new) |
St. Gallen | Rudolf Mäder , KCVP (previously) | Willi Rohner , FDP (previously) |
Ticino | Ferruccio Bolla , FDP (new) | Alberto Stefani , KCVP (new) |
Thurgau | Heinrich Herzog , BGB (new) | Jakob Müller , FDP (previously) |
Uri | Ludwig Danioth , KCVP (previously) | Emil Wipfli , CVP (previously) |
Vaud | Gabriel Despland , FDP (so far) | Louis Guisan , LPS (new) |
Valais | Leo Guntern , KCVP / CSP (previously) | Marius Lampert , KCVP (previously) |
train | Augustin Lusser , KCVP (previously) | Alois Zehnder , KCVP (previously) |
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
- ↑ Table «National Council elections: voter turnout, 1919–2015»
- ^ Members of the National Council, pp. 1155–1247
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland 1965, pages 528 to 535
- ^ Members of the Council of States, pages 1248–1250
- ^ Parliamentary groups since 1912