Swiss parliamentary elections 2011

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Turnout: 48.6%
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26.6
18.7
15.1
12.3
8.4
5.4
5.4
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 % p
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  -4
-2.4
-0.9
-2.5
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+5.4
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+0.2
Otherwise.
The seat of the two chambers of parliament is the Bundeshaus in Bern .

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , the 200 seats in the National Council and 45 of the 46 seats in the Council of States were filled. The main event took place on October 23, 2011. Some Councilors of States were elected in second rounds up to December 4, 2011.

The winners of the National Council elections were the Civil Democratic Party (BDP), which split off from the Swiss People's Party (SVP) in 2008 , and the Green Liberals (glp), which were running for the first time in most of the cantons. They both achieved 5.4 percent of the vote and twelve (glp) and nine (BDP) seats in the National Council. The loser in the election was the SVP, which had to give up nine seats but remained the strongest party. The FDP , SP , CVP and the Greens also suffered losses. The PdA and EDU (temporarily) lost their parliamentary representation, while the Geneva protest party MCG was able to move into the National Council for the first time.

In the Council of States, the SP was the winner of the election, she put eleven members in the small chamber, more than ever before in her party history. In contrast, the FDP, CVP and SVP were weakened in the small chamber. A non-party Council of States was also elected.

The parliamentary elections were followed by the general election of the Federal Council on December 14, 2011 .

The 49th legislative period lasted four years, until the 2015 parliamentary elections .

Election mode

National Council

National Council Chamber

The National Council - the large chamber of parliament - has been elected according to the proportional representation system since 1919 . The total of 200 seats are distributed among the cantons based on the number of inhabitants; In 2011, for example, the canton of Zurich had 34 seats, while the canton of Basel-Stadt only had five. The federal constitution stipulates that each canton sends at least one representative to the National Council. Every citizen entitled to vote can vote for as many candidates as his canton has mandates. Voting takes place on lists , whereby variegation and accumulation (maximum two votes for one candidate) are possible. In cantons with only one representative in the National Council, there is no list election, but an election based on the majority principle .

Parties, voter groups and associations as well as individuals can submit electoral lists to the cantons. In large cantons, many parties do not only run with a list: a distinction is often made in terms of geography (“Party XY East” / “Party XY West”) or social (“Young Party XY” / “Party XY 60+”). It is also possible to keep several lists in order to distinguish political currents within a party (“Party XY Ecological” / “Party XY Liberal”). Such differentiated lists are usually linked together as sub-lists. In addition, two or more parties can enter into a list connection. In this case, in the (first) allocation of the number of seats, the list connection is regarded as a single list.

The number of seats is allocated using the Hagenbach-Bischoff method , a calculation variant of the D'Hondt method .

Council of States

Council of States Chamber

The Council of States - the small chamber of parliament - has 46 members. The federal constitution stipulates that each canton holds two seats in the small chamber of parliament. The cantons that were previously listed as half-cantons are an exception: Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft , Obwalden , Nidwalden , Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden only send one MP. This fixes the number of 46 MPs.

The election and term of office of the Council of States are the responsibility of the cantons. Thus, in contrast to the National Council, there is de jure no general election for renewal, and consequently no constituent meeting and no senior presidents. Each canton is therefore free to determine the time of the election and the election procedure for its members of the Council of States.

In the time since the Confederation was founded, the electoral procedures between the cantons have been harmonized to such an extent that, with the exception of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, all seats in the Council of States are re-elected on the same day as the National Council. The elections to the Council of States are based on cantonal law: Most cantons have established the majority voting system as the electoral procedure, whereby the candidates must achieve an absolute majority in the first ballot (calculated differently by the cantons) , and a simple majority in any second ballot . In the canton of Geneva , a qualified majority of a third is sufficient in the first ballot . The cantons of Jura and Neuchâtel vote according to proportional representation . In the canton of Glarus , 16- and 17-year-olds have the right to vote at cantonal level, so they can have a say in the election of the Council of States.

For all cantons with a majority procedure, a new election must be scheduled if a member of the Council of States leaves. The new member of the Council of States determined in this way is then only elected for the period until the next regular election of the Council of States. Thus, for example, in the spring of 2011 Canton Bern Adrian Amstutz , elected as the new Senate after the Simonetta Sommaruga to Federal Councilor was elected. Amstutz now had to stand for re-election in autumn 2011 and was eliminated. For the same reason, runoff elections are also necessary in the Council of States elections if fewer candidates have achieved an absolute majority than the number of seats available.

E-voting

In the 2011 elections, 21,500 Swiss abroad from the cantons of Aargau , Basel-Stadt, Graubünden and St. Gallen were able to vote electronically for the first time. The main reason for the introduction of e-voting was the fact that when voting abroad, the ballot papers often do not arrive until after election day. In other cantons, e-voting should only be introduced at a later date.

Starting position

General election of
the National Council in 2007
Share of voters in percent
 %
30th
20th
10
0
29.0
19.6
15.8
14.5
9.6
2.4
1.8
1.4
5.9
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2003
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+2.2
-3.7
-1.5
+0.1
+2.2
+0.1
-0.4
+1.4
-0.4
Otherwise.

Party landscape

Political party Political position Seats 2011 (before new election)
National Council Council of States
Swiss People's Party (SVP) nationally conservative ,
partly economically liberal , isolationist 		58 (29.0%) 7 (15.2%)
Social Democratic Party (SP) social democratic 41 (20.5%) 8 (17.4%)
FDP.The Liberals (FDP) liberal , bourgeois 35 (17.5%) 12 (26.1%)
Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) Christian Democratic 31 (15.5%)  14 (30.4%)
Green (GPS) green 20 (10%) 2 (4.3%)
Green liberals (glp) Economically liberal, socially liberal, green 3 (1.5%) 2
Bourgeois Democratic Party (BDP) bourgeois-liberal 5 1

Swiss People's Party (SVP)

In the last parliamentary elections in 2007 , the SVP gained around 29 percent of the vote . Her election campaign turned out to be very aggressive: with her initiative “For the deportation of criminal foreigners” and her sheep posters , she operated a successful agenda setting . She declared the parliamentary elections to be a acid test for or against Christoph Blocher remaining in the Federal Council. Opponents of Blocher's politics and person accused the then member of the Federal Council of a demagogic style, populism and xenophobia .

Social Democratic Party (SP)

There was another change with the Social Democrats. After the Social Democratic Party lost 3.8 percentage points in the last elections and achieved a share of the vote of 19.6 percent, its President Hans-Jürg Fehr resigned. The Freiburg National Council and trade unionist Christian Levrat was elected to succeed Fehr .

The young party , the Young Socialists Switzerland (Juso), which, like the other young parties, has so far hardly appeared in the media, elected Cédric Wermuth from Aargau to its party presidium in April 2008 . In the first three months, Juso achieved a large media presence through provocative campaigns. Various Young Socialists were elected to various offices between 2007 and 2011 and helped the mother party win parliamentary elections at municipal and cantonal level (+3 seats in the canton of Lucerne , +3 seats in the city of Arbon ) or to maintain the number of seats ( canton Zurich ).

FDP The Liberals

The Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS) was an economically liberal party that was mainly represented in French- speaking Switzerland . After the parliamentary elections in 2003 , the LPS only achieved four seats in the National Council and missed the five seats required to form its own parliamentary group. In 2005 the LPS President Claude Ruey and the FDP President Fulvio Pelli announced the establishment of the " Union of Liberals and Liberals ". On January 1, 2009, the FDP Switzerland merged with the LPS to form the FDP. The Liberals . As a result, she won four national council seats in parliament.

Changes in the party political composition since 2007

From the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2007 to the elections in 2011, the following changes took place in the party-political composition of the parliament (through party converts and through replacement elections for deceased or resigned councilors):

Political party National Council Council of States
Share of voters 2007 Number of seats 2007
(share of seats) 		Number of seats 2011
(share of seats) 		Δ Number of seats 2007
(share of seats) 		Number of seats 2011
(share of seats) 		Δ
SVP 29.0% 62 (31%) 59 (29.5%) -3 2.5 7 (15.2%) 7 (15.2%) ± 0 a, c
SP 19.6% 43 (21.5%) 41 (20.5%) -2 3.4 9 (19.6%) 8 (17.4%) -1 c
FDP 15.8% 31 (15.5%) 35 (17.5%) +4 1 12 (26.1%) 12 (26.1%) ± 0
CVP 14.5% 31 (15.5%) 30 (15.0%) -1 5 15 (32.6%) 14 (30.4%) -1 b
Green 9.6% 20 (10.0%) 20 (10.0%) ± 0 2 (4.3%) 2 (4.3%) ± 0
BDP 0.0% 0 (0.0%) 5 (2.5%) +5 2.3 0 (0.0%) 1 (2.2%) +1 a
LPS 1.9% 4 (2.0%) 0 (0.0%) -4 1
glp 1.4% 3 (1.5%) 3 (1.5%) ± 0 1 (2.2%) 2 (4.3%) +1 b
EPP 2.4% 2 (1.0%) 2 (1.0%) ± 0
EDU 1.3% 1 (0.5%) 1 (0.5%) ± 0
PdA 0.7% 1 (0.5%) 0 (0.0%) -1 6
AL 0.0% 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) +1 6
Lega 0.6% 1 (0.5%) 1 (0.5%) ± 0
CSP 0.4% 1 (0.5%) 1 (0.5%) ± 0
Rest 5.6% 0 1 +1 4

National Council 1 On January 1, 2009, the FDP and LPS merged to form FDP. The Liberals .

2 On November 1, 2008, the BDP split from the SVP. At the beginning she could count on four national councilors.

3 In the election of a replacement for the resigned SP politician Werner Marti from the canton of Glarus (single constituency), the BDP wonits fifth member of the National Councilwith Martin Landolt on February 8, 2009and has since formed its own parliamentary group.

4 On November 16, 2010 Ricardo Lumengo (SP / Bern) left the party and the parliamentary group due to the affair of alleged election fraud.

5 On January 16, 2011, Thomas Müller (CVP / St. Gallen) left his party and switched to SVP.

6 Josef Zisyadis , who previously represented the PdA , switched to the newly founded Alternative Left on May 29, 2010.

Council of States a On November 1, 2008, the BDP split from the SVP. Thus, Werner Luginbühl the only member of the BDP Group in the Council of States.

b Hansruedi Stadler (CVP / Uri) resigned from the Council of States on May 31, 2010. On April 25, 2010, the non-party Markus Stadler was elected as his successor in the second ballot. After his election he wanted to join the CVP / EPP / glp group as a non-party. This required of him that he also join one of the three parties united in the group. Stadler opted for the Green Liberal Party four days later.

c Because member of the Council of States Simonetta Sommaruga (SP / Bern) was elected to the Federal Council, a replacement election took place at the beginning of 2011. In the runoff election on March 5, 2011, Adrian Amstutz (SVP) was elected to the Council of States by a narrow margin over the SP representative Ursula Wyss .

Substitute elections were held for the resigned or deceased or elected members of the Federal Council, Gisèle Ory (SP / Neuchâtel), Fritz Schiesser (FDP / Glarus), Ernst Leuenberger (SP / Solothurn) and Didier Burkhalter (FDP / Neuchâtel). The parties were able to defend their seat with Didier Berberat (SP / Neuchâtel), Pankraz Freitag (FDP / Glarus), Roberto Zanetti (SP / Solothurn) and Raphaël Comte (FDP / Neuchâtel).

Parliamentary studies

A study by the debt collection company Credita on the membership of members of parliament on administrative and foundation boards suggested rapid growth during the current legislature. In total, the 246 National and State Councils represented 2045 such mandates on the date of the investigation. With 583 such seats or 12.1 per capita, the FDP parliamentary group is at the top, followed by the CVP / EPP / glp group with 565 seats or 10.9 per capita. The parliamentary groups of the SVP and the SP follow at some distance. 62 percent of the capital represented is located in the CVP / EPP / glp parliamentary group, 29 percent in that of the FDP. SVP and BDP each represent 4 percent, the SP 1 percent. A Council of States accumulates more mandates and capital than a National Council, and the same applies to a man compared to a woman in parliament.

Another study by the University of Zurich compared the voting behavior of the national councilors with the information on positions that had been made during the election campaign. The evaluation showed an agreement of 94 percent for the PLC and 92 for the GPS. For the SVP, the figure is 86 percent, for the FDP it is 81 percent. The least likely to keep their election promises are the CVP members, where 26 percent of the statements examined differed from their voting behavior. The study suggested that newly elected politicians have a lower consensus independent of the party.

A third study of voting behavior in the National Council assessed the parties and politicians according to their liberality in around 500 relevant decisions. She comes to the conclusion that the FDP is the most liberal on economic issues, while the GPS is the most liberal party on social issues. The most economically liberal is Markus Hutter (FDP / ZH), the most socially liberal is Christa Markwalder (FDP / BE). Your clearest opponents are Josef Zisyadis (PdA / VD) and Andreas Brönnimann (EDU / BE).

Trends in the electorate

Analysis of the 2007 National Council elections

The Selects follow-up survey revealed two dimensions of the political conflict in Switzerland: the central issue is the question of identity between nationally closed and internationally integrated Switzerland. It overlays the previously most important question between right and left, which arose from the relationship between market and state.

The SVP's electorate is most clearly inclined towards the domestically oriented pole, followed by that of the CVP. Those who vote for GPS or SP are more oriented towards the outside, while the FDP electorate is not clearly oriented towards this dimension.

On the right are the voters of the SVP and FDP, minimally to the right of the center is the voter base of the CVP. On the left are the constituencies of GPS and SP.

New polls

Throughout the legislature period, voter polls were held on the basis of representative surveys. There are two series, one from the research institute gfs.bern resp. by Isopublic. They show numerous similarities, for example in the glp and BDP, which are growing, in the FDP, which has held up so far, and in the CVP, SP and GPS, which easily lose. There are differences at SVP, which according to gfs.bern would gain slightly, but would lose after Isopublic. Experience has shown that voter surveys fluctuate until the end due to mobilization and changeover effects.

Institute date SVP SP FDP CVP Green EPP glp EDU BDP
Result of the National Council elections 11/21/2007 29.0% 19.6% 17.7% 14.5% 9.6% 2.4% 1.4% 1.1% -
Isopublic 06/18/2011 28.7% 18.6% 13.9% 13.2% 9.9% 1.0% 8.0% 1.0% 3.7%
gfs.bern 07/29/2011 27.4% 18.5% 16.1% 15.0% 10.1% 1.7% 4.6% 1.7% 2.9%
Demoscope 08/18/2011 24.8% 19.5% 17.8% 12.4% 9.9% k. A. 7.2% k. A. 3.0%
gfs.bern 08/28/2011 28.0% 20.5% 15.6% 14.5% 9.5% 1.6% 4.5% 1.0% 3.1%
isopublic 09/26/2011 28.2% 20.3% 15.7% 14.2% 9.8% k. A. 5.2% k. A. 3.2%
gfs.bern 04/10/2011 29.3% 19.9% 15.2% 14.2% 9.3% k. A. 4.9% k. A. 3.6%

Cantonal parliamentary elections

Political party National Council election 2007
in percent		 Cantonal Parliaments 2007 Cantonal Parliaments 2011
absolutely relative absolutely relative
Swiss People's Party 29.0 568 20.7 563 21.6
Social Democratic Party 19.6 535 19.5 445 17.1
FDP The Liberals 17.7 550 20.1 503 19.3
Christian Democratic People's Party 14.5 558 20.4 482 18.5
Green party 9.6 190 6.9 201 7.7
Green Liberal Party 1.4 10 0.4 51 2.0
Bourgeois Democratic Party 0.0 0 0.0 75 2.9

The differences between the shares at national and cantonal levels have various reasons. It is important that the mobilization in cantonal elections is lower than in national elections. The SVP in particular benefits from the increased participation in National Council elections. In addition, it should be noted that some parties in smaller cantons - for example the liberals in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden - are traditionally strong. Furthermore, the cantonal parliaments are elected differently: In the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, majority voting is elected, in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden the majority of parliamentarians are non-party.

The overview of won and lost share of the voters in the cantons has the advantage of being free from the influence of the conversion of votes to seats, which tend to favor the large parties. Accordingly, the values ​​are somewhat clearer. The new parties BDP and glp, as well as, to a limited extent, the SVP have increased the number of voters. The merged FDP and LP, the SP and the CVP have lost. This also applies to a limited extent to the EPP. This means that after years of polarization in the party system, the center is now being mixed up again.

The view is often held that the Zurich cantonal elections, six months before the federal elections, set the trend. It is true that in the last 4 electoral periods those parties that gained or lost at least 1 percent in Zurich were also winners or losers nationally. Based on the 2011 results in Switzerland's largest canton, this speaks in favor of electoral gains for the glp and BDP, while the FDP, CVP and EVP may have to reckon with losses. However, caution is called for with such analogies, because the turnout in national elections is significantly higher than in cantonal elections, including the Zurich elections.

Resignations

National Council

38 national councilors announced their resignation at the end of the legislature.

Swiss People's Party Social Democratic Party FDP The Liberals
Christian Democratic People's Party Green party Other
Bourgeois Democratic Party
Alternative left

André Daguet (SP / Bern) resigned in the election year and was replaced by Corrado Pardini . Thomas Müller (CVP / St. Gallen) ran again for the 2011 National Council elections, but for the SVP.

Council of States

12 Councilors of States announced their resignation at the end of the legislature.

FDP The Liberals Christian Democratic People's Party Swiss People's Party

Councilor of States Simonetta Sommaruga (SP / Bern) was elected to the Federal Council in 2010. Adrian Amstutz (SVP) was elected as her successor on March 6, 2011 .

The SVP of the canton of Aargau no longer nominated the previous Council of States Maximilian Reimann for the small chamber. National Councilor Ulrich Giezendanner ran for the Council of States in his place .

Parties

Candidacies

The four traditional Federal Council parties, SVP, SP, FDP and CVP each competed in all 20 cantons that elect several people to the National Council; the Greens in all multi-member constituencies except in Schaffhausen. All of these parties also competed in several of the six one-person majority cantons. The Greens presented themselves for the first time in their party history in the canton of Jura , in Appenzell Innerrhoden there was an SP candidate for the first time, and in Nidwalden an SVP candidate for the first time for the National Council. With regard to the election of the Council of States, the following candidacies were put up: The FDP ran for the Council of States in 22 cantons with a total of 25 candidates. The SP had 23 candidates in 20 cantons and the CVP had twenty-two candidates in 20 cantons. For the SVP, 22 people stood for election in 19 cantons. Against the will of his party and alongside an official candidate, the resigning National Councilor Lieni Füglistaller stood in the canton of Aargau. In the canton of Ticino, SVP and Lega dei Ticinesi jointly supported the non-party former liberal Sergio Morisoli. 17 candidates in 14 cantons ran for the Greens.

In some cantons, the five big parties (SVP, SP, FDP, CVP, Greens) submitted several regional lists to the running for the National Council elections, while the SP had separate lists for men and women in Bern and Neuchâtel. In most of the cantons, the relevant young parties competed on their own lists. In addition, these parties had individual lists for senior citizens, Swiss abroad , secondos or entrepreneurs as well as lists with special topics (for example, environmental lists of the FDP). In some cantons there are several cantonal parties within a Swiss party for historical or substantive reasons (for example LDP Basel , Green Alternative Bern or CSP Oberwallis ); these groups also ran for candidates separately. Whenever a party had several lists, there were list connections or sub- list connections between these lists , so it does not harm when calculating the distribution of seats that the votes for one party are divided between several lists.

The BDP stood for election in eighteen cantons, the Green Liberals in fourteen. The BDP ran for the first time everywhere, the Green Liberals in all cantons except Zurich and St. Gallen. Both parties, but especially the glp, entered into a wide variety of lists in the cantons in order to gain additional seats.

The two small evangelical parties EPP and EDU ran for elections in thirteen and eleven cantons, respectively. They too had a few youth or future lists. As for the list connections, the EPP mostly joined forces with the CVP, glp, and / or BDP, and occasionally with the left-wing parties. The EDU was linked to the SVP in most of the cantons.

On the side of the left small parties, the three parties Alternative Left , Labor Party and SolidaritéS presented themselves . There were various combinations of these three parties in French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino, Zurich, Bern and Schaffhausen. Sometimes only a single party ran for office (e.g. AL in Valais), sometimes a joint list of two groupings ran (list PdA / Sol in Neuchâtel, AL / Sol in Geneva), sometimes there were separate candidacies for the individual parties (about one each in Bern List of PdA and AL); in some cantons there were sub-lists between various left-radical lists, in others not. In some cases, the radical left had list connections with the SP and the Greens.

The Green Liberals, BDP, EPP, EDU and the left-wing small parties each had candidates for Council of States in three or four cantons, including two previous GLP Council of States and one previous BDP Council of States.

The left-Christian CSP competed in Freiburg, Zug and Zurich. In the one-person canton of Obwalden, the Christian Social Party Obwalden , which is not affiliated with any Swiss party, ran for the first time ; the candidate there, Karl Vogler, announced that he would join the CVP parliamentary group should he be elected, which he did after his election.

From the right-wing small parties, the protest parties Lega dei Ticinesi in Ticino and the Mouvement citoyens romands in Geneva and Vaud stood as candidates . The Swiss Democrats submitted lists in six cantons. The right-wing extremist party, Nationally Oriented Swiss , which had already stood as a candidate in 2003, put candidates in Bern and Vaud. For the first time since it was founded in 1985, the Auto Party did not take part in the elections.

Since the previous elections, there have been some smaller groups that have been newly founded and have submitted lists in several cantons: the Pirate Party (seven cantons), the Social-Liberal Movement (Bern and Aargau), the Animal Party (four cantons) and parteifrei.ch , which claims to be Understand the platform for non-party candidates (six cantons). In addition, various local parties, splinter groups or one-person lists are running in various cantons.

In two cantons there were candidates for the Council of States from the Mouvement citoyens and from parteifrei.ch, different groups nominated one candidate each, and different non-party citizens wanted (most famous the entrepreneur Thomas Minder , who was then actually elected and joined the SVP parliamentary group ) in the Council of States.

Election campaign

The Federal Chancellery, in cooperation with the state chancelleries in the cantons, is responsible for conducting the elections. The election campaign is traditionally divided into pre, main and final election campaigns. In recent times the pre-election campaign has been expanded in the sense of a permanent election campaign.

Swiss election campaigns are only weakly regulated. Neither parties nor candidates have to disclose their election campaign expenses. The Federal Council has now stipulated that posters with members of the government are forbidden while members are allowed to appear at party events if the topics of the Federal Council are discussed. In addition, the city of Bern's government banned party demonstrations in the city in the four weeks before election day; the interested parties SVP and SP were offered appointments in advance. The background to the decision was the serious riots that occurred on October 6, 2007 at the manifestation in Bern between the SVP and the Black Bloc.

Primary campaign

The Federal Council formally opened the election on October 29, 2010 with a circular letter to the cantons regarding the number of seats and binding dates for election preparations. Information is also provided about the counting procedure and the complaints system. The informal pre-election campaign usually takes place during the same period. It is particularly evident in the fact that the parties are increasingly shifting their behavior to election day and addressing voters.

During the deportation initiative, the Röstigraben became clear again.

The 2011 pre-election campaign was determined by the referendum on November 28, 2010. The popular initiative to expel criminal foreigners was accepted , while the counter-proposal by the authorities was rejected. This shaped a nationally oriented basic climate in which the foreigners and identity issues were at the center. The referendum on February 13, 2011 on the gun protection initiative, which was rejected, was also characterized by this environment. On the same day, the voters in Bern decided in a consultative vote that the canton should advocate the continuation of the Mühleberg nuclear power plant.

This basic climate was replaced by the natural disaster in Japan, which radiated worldwide through the nuclear reactor accident in Fukushima. The question of the future of nuclear energy became the focus of interest. In particular, the nuclear power operators' expansion plans were stopped. The planned nationwide referendum in 2013 on this has been postponed indefinitely. By the summer of 2011, the Federal Council wants to present scenarios for the consequences of phasing out nuclear energy. The first analysis of the climate of opinion and voting intentions in the Zurich elections spoke of a Japan or “ Fukushima effect ” in favor of green and left-wing parties.

Results of the National Council elections

Development of the share of the vote in national council elections

The announcement of the national overall result was delayed due to an IT breakdown in the State Chancellery of the Canton of Vaud . It was only available on the afternoon of October 24th.

Parties, votes, seats

Results from the cantons of the Swiss parliamentary elections 2011 / Results of the National Council elections

Comment on the number of voters: In the multi-person constituencies (20 cantons, to which a total of 194 of 200 seats are entitled), each voter has as many votes as there are seats available in his canton (34 in the canton of Zurich, 2 in the canton of Jura). 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 has not selected a list but has used a so-called “ballot paper without party name”, votes that are not used expire (so-called empty votes). In order to achieve results that are comparable across cantons, the so-called “voter count” is used here. This is obtained by dividing the votes by the number of seats. But because a voter can distribute his votes to several parties, there are fractions of votes. The whole voter numbers given below are therefore rounded values. These do not represent more than a statistical fiction. In the canton of Aargau z. B., who has 15 mandates to assign, a “voter” can also consist of 15 people who each have a candidate from the party concerned on their list.

15th
46
2
12
29
9
30th
1
2
54
15th 46 2 12 29 9 30th 1 2 54 
A total of 200 seats
Strongest party by canton and distribution of seats
Strongest party by district
Strongest party by parish
Political party be right % (+/−) Seats (+/-)
Swiss People's Party 641,106 26.60% −2.41% 54 −8
Social Democratic Party 450,693 18.70% −0.85% 46 +3
FDP The Liberals 364,704 15.13% 1 -2.46% 30th 1 -5
Christian Democratic People's Party 296,350 12.30% −2.18% 28 −3
Green Party of Switzerland 203,447 8.44% −1.15% 15th −5
Bourgeois Democratic Party 130,878 5.43% + 5.43% 9 +9
Green Liberal Party 130,041 5.40% + 3.96% 12 +9
Evangelical People's Party 48'259 2.00% −0.44% 2 0
Federal Democratic Union 30,340 1.26% −0.02% 0 −1
Alternative Left / Alternative List / Labor Party / solidaritéS 28,861 1.20% −0.12% 0 −1
Lega dei Ticinesi 18,956 0.79% + 0.22% 2 +1
Pirate party 11,616 0.48% + 0.48%
Mouvement citoyens romands 10,555 0.44% + 0.32% 1 +1
Christian Social Party Obwalden 8,896 0.37% + 0.37% 1 +1
Christian Social Party Switzerland 6'416 0.27% −0.17% 0 −1
Swiss democrats 4,838 0.20% −0.33%
parteifrei.ch (BS, BE, FR, LU, SO, ZH) 4,602 0.19% + 0.19%
Animal Party Switzerland (BE, LU, SO, ZH) 3,558 0.15% + 0.15%
MontagnaViva (TI) 1,936 0.08% +0.08%
Social-Liberal Movement (AG, BE) 1,851 0.08% +0.08%
Jimy Hofer plus (BE) 1,430 0.06% +0.06%
Alpine Parliament (BE) 1,409 0.06% 2 -0.06%
Konfessionslose.ch - List for the separation of church and state (ZH) 1,270 0.05% + 0.05%
Nationally Oriented Swiss Party (BE, VD) 1,198 0.05% + 0.05%
Verdi liberali democratici della Svizzera italiana 3 (TI) 1,137 0.05% + 0.05%
Popular action against too many foreigners and asylum seekers (BS) 810 0.03% −0.00%
La Gauche combative (GE) 780 0.03% −0.00%
Les Rauraques (Young Jurassic Separatists , BE) 682 0.03% +0.03%
Rafforzare le famiglie 4 (TI) 305 0.01% + 0.01%
Svizzera Italiana (TI) 278 0.01% + 0.01%
Alliance BLEUE contre le vol autorisé des assurances-maladie 5 (GE) 256 0.01% + 0.01%
Swiss Fools Party - The least honest (ZH) 251 0.01% + 0.01%
Integral Politics (FR) 218 0.01% + 0.01%
Independent Citizens Movement (FR) 194 0.01% −0.00%
Free State of Lower Kleinbasel (BS) 180 0.01% + 0.01%
Anti PowerPoint Party (ZH) 141 0.01% + 0.01%
Subitas (successor to the «men's party», ZH) 59 0.00% −0.03%
Isolated votes in single-person constituencies 1,624 0.07% −0.05%
1 Comparison in each case with the added results of the FDP and LPS in the 2007 elections.
2 Comparison with the share of the vote that the "Health Interest Group" achieved in 2007
3Although this list was translated as the "Democratic-Green Liberal Party of Italian-speaking Switzerland", it was not a section of the Green Liberals .
4th In German: "Strengthen the families"
5 In German: "BLUE alliance against the officially approved theft by health insurance companies"

Voting shares in the cantons (with multiple seats)

Voter numbers, percentages of smaller parties and names of those elected in the Swiss parliamentary elections 2011 / results of the National Council elections

Canton SVP SP FDP CVP Green glp BDP EPP EDU ALCH ( PdA , Sol , AL )
Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau 34.8% 18.0% 11.5% 10.6% 7.3% 5.7% 6.1% 3.2% 1.2%
Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country 26.9% 24.4% 11.5% 8.2% 13.6% 5.0% 6.4% 3.3%
Canton of Basel-StadtCanton of Basel-Stadt Basel city 16.5% 29.1% 19.1% 6.5% 13.4% 5.8% 2.2% 2.5% 0.5%
Canton BernCanton Bern Bern 29.0% 19.3% 8.7% 2.1% 9.4% 5.3% 14.9% 4.2% 3.1% 0.8%
Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg 21.4% 26.7% 12.8% 20.3% 5.0% 3.5% 1.9% 0.7% 0.7%
Canton of GenevaCanton of Geneva Geneva 16.0% 19.1% 18.6% 9.8% 14.0% 3.2% 1.0% 6.5%
canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Grisons 24.5% 15.6% 11.9% 16.6% 2.2% 8.3% 20.5% 0.5%
Canton of JuraCanton of Jura law 15.5% 30.8% 9.5% 33.2% 11.0%
Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne 25.1% 11.5% 18.4% 27.1% 8.3% 6.1% 2.1% 0.7%
Canton of NeuchâtelCanton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel 21.4% 24.7% 26.9% 3.5% 11.7% 1.5% 10.4%
Canton of SchaffhausenCanton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen 40.3% 35.0% 12.5% 5.3% 2.5% 4.3%
Canton of SchwyzCanton of Schwyz Schwyz 38.0% 15.7% 17.4% 20.6% 3.8% 3.4% 1.1%
Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn 24.3% 18.3% 18.4% 17.9% 7.5% 5.0% 4.4% 1.5% 0.5%
Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen St. Gallen 31.5% 16.7% 12.3% 20.3% 6.4% 6.0% 3.8% 1.8% 1.2%
Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino 9.7% 16.6% 24.8% 20.0% 6.7% 1.2%
Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau 38.7% 12.1% 11.2% 14.4% 7.0% 5.2% 5.0% 2.9% 3.5%
Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud 22.9% 25.2% 22.0% 4.6% 11.6% 5.1% 0.8% 1.1% 1.1% 3.9%
Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais 19.8% 14.3% 18.9% 40.0% 5.0% 0.6% 0.7%
Canton of ZugCanton of Zug train 28.3% 5.3% 19.2% 24.3% 15.4% 6.8%
Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich 29.8% 19.3% 11.6% 5.0% 8.4% 11.5% 5.3% 3.1% 2.2% 1.3%
Switzerland 26.6% 18.7% 15.1% 12.3% 8.4% 5.4% 5.4% 2.0% 1.3% 1.2%

Distribution of seats in the cantons

The names of those elected in the Swiss parliamentary elections 2011 / Results of the National Council elections

Canton Total SVP SP FDP 5 CVP 6 Green glp BDP EPP Lega MCR CSP EDU PdA / AL
Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau 15th 6th 3 2 1 −2 1 1 +1 1 +1
Canton of Appenzell AusserrhodenCanton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden 1 1
Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden 1 1
Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country 7th 2 2 1 1 1
Canton of Basel-StadtCanton of Basel-Stadt Basel city 5 1 2 1 1 +1 0 −1
Canton BernCanton Bern Bern 26th 8th −2 6th 2 −2 −1 3 2 +2 4th +4 1 0 −1
Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg 7th 1 3 +1 1 2 0 −1
Canton of GenevaCanton of Geneva Geneva 11 2 3 2 −1 1 2 1 +1
Canton of GlarusCanton of Glarus Glarus 1 0 −1 1 +1
canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Grisons 5 1 −1 1 0 −1 1 1 +1 1 +1
Canton of JuraCanton of Jura law 2 0 −1 1 1 +1
Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne 10 2 −1 1 2 3 1 1 +1
Canton of NeuchâtelCanton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel 5 1 1 2 1
Canton of NidwaldenCanton of Nidwalden Nidwalden 1 1 +1 0 −1
Canton of ObwaldenCanton of Obwalden Obwalden 1 0 −1 1 +1
Canton of SchaffhausenCanton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen 2 1 1
Canton of SchwyzCanton of Schwyz Schwyz 4th 1 −1 1 1 +1 1
Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn 7th 2 2 +1 1 2 0 −1
Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen St. Gallen 12 4th −1 2 1 3 1 1 +1
Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino 8th 1 +1 1 −1 2 −1 2 2 +1
Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau 6th 3 1 −1 1 1 +1
Canton of UriCanton of Uri Uri 1 1
Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud 18th 4th −1 6th +2 4th 1 2 −1 1 +1 0 −1
Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais 7th 1 2 +1 1 3 −1
Canton of ZugCanton of Zug train 3 1 1 +1 1 0 −1
Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich 34 11 −1 7th 4th 2 −1 3 −1 4th +1 2 +2 1
Switzerland 200 54 −8 46 +3 30th −5 29 −2 15th −5 12 +9 9 +9 2 ± 0 2 +1 1 +1 0 −1 0 −1 0 −1
5 Comparison with the total number of seats of the FDP and LPS from 2007
6thincluding CSP Obwalden

Deselected

Newly elected

5In the canton of Ticino, Monica Duca Widmer and Marco Romano each achieved 23,979 votes, making them both runner-up on the CVP list, which won two seats. In accordance with the electoral statutes, the Ticino cantonal government made a drawing of lots. The computer-generated lot went to Monica Duca Widmer, while Marco Romano was the first replacement. In response to a complaint, the Federal Supreme Court ordered a public drawing by hand. This lot fell on Marco Romano, with which Monica Duca Widmer became the first replacement.

Results of the Council of States elections

Distribution of seats

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A total of 46 seats

Detailed results with votes from all candidates in the cantons under results of the Council of States elections (2011–2015) .

Political party Elections 2011 Status at the end of the 2007-2011 legislature 2007 elections
CVP 13 14th 15th
FDP 11 12 12
SP 11 8th 9
SVP 5 7th 7th
Green 2 2 2
GLP 2 2 1
BDP 1 1 0
independent 1 0 0

Elected Councilors of States

Detailed results with votes from all candidates under results of the Council of States elections (2011–2015) .

Canton 1. Seat of the Council of States 2. Seat of the Council of States
Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau Pascale Bruderer , SP (new) Christine Egerszegi-Obrist , FDP (previously)
Canton of Appenzell AusserrhodenCanton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden Hans Altherr , FDP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Ivo Bischofberger , CVP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country Claude Janiak , SP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton of Basel-StadtCanton of Basel-Stadt Basel city Anita Fetz , SP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton BernCanton Bern Bern Werner Luginbühl , BDP (previously) Hans Stöckli , SP (new)
Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg Alain Berset , SP (previously) Urs Schwaller , CVP (previously)
Canton of GenevaCanton of Geneva Geneva Liliane Maury Pasquier , SP (previously) Robert Cramer , GPS (so far)
Canton of GlarusCanton of Glarus Glarus This Jenny , SVP (so far) Pankraz Friday , FDP (so far)
canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Grisons Stefan Engler , CVP (new) Martin Schmid , FDP (new)
Canton of JuraCanton of Jura law Claude Hêche , SP (previously) Anne Seydoux-Christe , CVP (previously)
Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne Konrad Graber , CVP (previously) Georges Theiler , FDP (new)
Canton of NeuchâtelCanton of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Didier Berberat , SP (previously) Raphaël Comte , FDP (previously)
Canton of NidwaldenCanton of Nidwalden Nidwalden Paul Niederberger , CVP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton of ObwaldenCanton of Obwalden Obwalden Hans Hess , FDP (previously) only 1 seat
Canton of SchaffhausenCanton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen Hannes Germann , SVP (previously) Thomas Minder , independent (new)
Canton of SchwyzCanton of Schwyz Schwyz Alex Kuprecht , SVP (previously) Peter Föhn , SVP (new)
Canton of SolothurnCanton of Solothurn Solothurn Roberto Zanetti , SP (previously) Pirmin Bischof , CVP (new)
Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen St. Gallen Karin Keller-Sutter , FDP (new) Paul Rechsteiner , SP (new)
Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino Filippo Lombardi , CVP (previously) Fabio Abate , FDP (new)
Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau Roland Eberle , SVP (new) Brigitte Häberli-Koller , CVP (new)
Canton of UriCanton of Uri Uri Isidor Baumann , CVP (new) Markus Stadler , glp (previously)
Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud Géraldine Savary , SP (previously) Luc Recordon , GPS (so far)
Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais Jean-René Fournier , CVP (previously) René Imoberdorf , CVP (previously)
Canton of ZugCanton of Zug train Joachim Eder , FDP (new) Peter Bieri , CVP (previously)
Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich Felix Gutzwiller , FDP (previously) Verena Diener , glp (previously)

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