Election results of the state ring in parliamentary elections

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The National Ring of Independents (LdU) took part for the first time in the federal parliamentary elections in 1939 , and for the last time in the parliamentary elections in 1999 as a political group. In 1935 , the newly founded movement around Gottlieb Duttweiler won 7 seats in the National Council straight away , but the party was not formally founded until 1936. At times, the LdU also had a seat on the Council of States - each in the canton of Zurich .

Overview

The following table provides information about the share of the vote, the votes and the seats of the LdU on the occasion of the elections.


National Council election results of the Landesring (1935–1999)
8th%
6%
4%
2%
0%
year National Council
votes 		National Council
voter share 		National Council
seats 		Council of States
seats
1935 37,861 4.14% 7th 0
1939 43,735 7.07% 9 0
1943 41,635 4.73% 6th 0
1947 42,428 4.42% 8th 0
1951 49,100 5.11% 10 0
1955 53,450 5.48% 10 0
1959 54,049 5.50% 10 0
1963 48'224 5.01% 10 0
1967 89,950 9.05% 16 1
1971 150,684 7.63% 13 1
1975 116,349 6.06% 11 1
1979 73,895 4.07% 8th 0
1983 77,745 4.00% 9 0
1987 80,099 4.17% 9 1
1991 61,176 3.03% 5 1
1995 34,375 1.83% 3 1
1999 14'063 0.72% 1 0

Remarks

1In the National Council elections in 1939, silent elections were held in nine cantons (including larger ones such as Vaud , Lucerne , Solothurn and the canton of Valais ). The proportion of votes only applies to the remaining 15 cantons. Because the Landesring was not or only weakly represented in the cantons with silent elections, the official proportion of the voters of the Landesring in 1939 was higher than its actual popularity at the time.
2The Federal Statistical Office named 48,557 votes (5.52% of the vote) and seven seats for the Landesring in 1943. However, a dissident list ( independent, free list in the canton of Zurich, 6922 votes) is included, which does not seem appropriate.
3In 1947 the LdU faction comprised 9 people, as the elected representative of the Liberal Socialist Party (also known as Freiwirtschafter ) joined the faction. For this reason, the number of mandates obtained is often given as 9.
4thGottlieb Duttweiler was elected as a replacement in 1949 after Friedrich Traugott Wahlen resigned , but then failed to be re-elected in 1951.
5In the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden , Herbert Maeder (1983-1995 in the National Council), who was not part of the party, was elected, who was close to the Landesring and joined the parliamentary group, his seat is included in the nine mandates.

Further elections and mandates

In the 1999 National Council elections , one representative of the LdU also got a seat in the National Council: Roland Wiederkehr (1987-2003 in the National Council). He retained his mandate even after the dissolution of the LdU until the end of the legislative period.

In the National Council elections in 2003 , an offshoot of the Landesring, the Free Forum , won 3,317 votes (0.16%). The party only competed in the canton of Zurich and won no more seats.

The party ran for elections in three to eleven cantons. The three highest proportions of votes: 23.0% (Canton Zurich, 1967), 22.1% ( Canton Schaffhausen , 1959) and 18.8% (Canton Zurich, 1947).

In all cantons:

From 1979 to 1999 the Landesring formed a parliamentary group with the EPP at the federal level .

The seat of the Council of States (in the canton of Zurich) was won by Gottlieb Duttweiler in a by-election in 1949. Monika Weber's seat on the Council of States was lost after her resignation in 1998. Thus, from 1949–1951, 1967–1979 and from 1987–1998, the Landesring provided a representation in the Council of States.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office, "National Council elections 1943: strength of the parties, voter turnout and fictitious voters, by cantons"