2011 Swiss federal election

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2011 Swiss federal election
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All 200 seats in the National Council (101 seats needed for a majority)
All 46 seats in the Council of States (24 seats needed for a majority)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Toni Brunner Christian Levrat Fulvio Pelli
Party Swiss People's Social Democrats FDP.The Liberals
Leader since 1 March 2008 1 March 2008 1 January 2009
Leader's seat St. Gallen Fribourg Ticino
Last election 62+7, 28.9% 43+9, 19.5% 31+12, 15.8%
Seats before 58 + 7 42 + 9 35 + 12
Seats won 54 + 5 46 + 11 31 + 11
Seat change Decrease10 Increase5 Decrease1
Popular vote 641,106 450,693 364,704
Percentage 26.6% 18.7% 15.1%
Swing Decrease2.3pp Decrease0.9pp Decrease2.5pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Christophe Darbellay Ueli Leuenberger Martin Bäumle
Party Christian Democrats Greens Green Liberals
Leader since 2 September 2006 26 April 2008 20 July 2007
Leader's seat Valais Geneva Zürich
Last election 31+15, 14.5% 20+2, 9.6% 3+1, 1.4%
Seats before 31 + 15 20 + 2 3 + 1
Seats won 28 + 13 15 + 2 12 + 2
Seat change Decrease5 Decrease5 Increase10
Popular vote 296,350 203,447 130,041
Percentage 12.3% 8.4% 5.4%
Swing Decrease2.2pp Decrease1.2pp Increase4.0pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Hans Grunder Heiner Studer Giuliano Bignasca
Party BDP Evangelical People's Ticino League
Leader since 1 November 2008 1 June 2008 17 January 1991
Leader's seat Bern None Ticino
Last election New 2+0, 2.4% 1+0, 0.6%
Seats before 5 + 0 2 + 0 1 + 0
Seats won 9 + 1 2 + 0 2 + 0
Seat change New Steady Increase1
Popular vote 130,878 48,259 18,956
Percentage 5.4% 2.0% 0.8%
Swing New Decrease0.4pp Increase0.2pp
Map of Swiss cantons shaded by the party that won the most votes. The Swiss People's Party dominated German-speaking Switzerland, while the Social Democrats were the largest in the French-speaking west.
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Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011. All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States.

Voter turnout was 49.1%, compared to 48.9% in 2007.[1]

National Council

At the last election, in 2007, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the highest share of the vote ever recorded for a single party in Switzerland, with 29% of the vote. Soon after, a moderate faction split from the SVP, forming the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP).

In the 2011 election, the two neophyte parties BDP and Green Liberal Party (GLP) were successful, each receiving 5.4% of the popular vote. Both the GLP and the BDP have gained the required five seats to form their own parliamentary groups, suggesting a split of the centrist CVP/EVP/glp group.

All other major parties lost votes, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the first time since the 1987 elections. With 26.6% of the popular vote, the SVP is still the strongest party by a comfortable margin, but the 2011 elections marked the end of its rapid growth during the period of 1995–2007.

Of the small parties (below 5 seats), the Evangelical People's Party received 2.0% of the vote (+0.4%), retaining its two seats. The Ticino League received 0.8% of the vote (+0.2%) and gains one seat, now holding two.

The Christian Social Party lost one seat, but gained another to remain in the National Council, while the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland and Swiss Party of Labour lost their single seats. Other minor groups which gathered more than 0.1% of the popular vote are: the Swiss Pirate Party (0.48%), the Swiss Democrats (0.20%), parteifrei.ch (0.19%) and Tierpartei Schweiz (0.15%).

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Seats by canton

Canton Total SVP SP FDP CVP Grüne glp BDP EVP EDU PdA CSP Lega MCG Other
ZH Zurich 34 11 −1 7 4 2 −1 3 −1 4 +1 2 +2 1
BE Berne 26 8 -2 6 2 -2 -1 3 2 +2 4 +4 1 0 -1
LU Lucerne 10 2 −1 1 2 3 1 1 +1
UR Uri 1 1
SZ Schwyz 4 1 −1 1 1 +1 1
NW Nidwald 1 1 +1 0 −1
OW Obwald 1 0 −1 1 +1
GL Glaris 1 0 −1 1 +1
ZG Zoug 3 1 1 +1 1 0 −1
FR Friburg 7 1 3 +1 1 2 0 −1
SO Soleure 7 2 2 +1 1 2 0 −1
BL Basle-Country 7 2 2 1 1 1
BS Basle-City 5 1 2 1 1 +1 0 −1
SH Schaffhouse 2 1 1
AR Appenzell Outer-Rhodes 1 1
AI Appenzell Inner-Rhodes 1 1
SG St Gall 12 4 −1 2 1 3 1 1 +1
GR Grisons 5 1 −1 1 0 −1 1 1 +1 1 +1
AG Argovia 15 6 3 2 1 −2 1 1 +1 1 +1
TG Thurgovia 6 3 1 −1 1 1 +1
TI Tessin 8 1 +1 1 -1 2 -1 2 2 +1
VD Vaud 18 4 -1 6 +2 4 1 2 -1 1 +1 0 -1
VS Valais 7 1 2 +1 1 3 −1
NE Neuchâtel 5 1 1 2 1
GE Geneva 11 2 3 2 -1 1 2 1 +1
JU Jura 2 −1 1 1 +1
 Switzerland 200 54 -8 46 +3 30 -5 28 -3 15 -5 12 +9 9 +9 2 ±0 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 2 +1 1 +1 1 +1

Council of States

The elections of the Council of States are done by a plurality voting system. 27 out of 46 seats were determined on the first ballot on 23 October; the remaining 19 seats were decided in a second ballot held in November.

Template:Swiss Council of States election, 2011 Template:Swiss Council of States election, 2011 by canton

Pre-election polls

Pollster Date SVP SPS FDP CVP GPS GLP BDP EVP EDU PdA LdT CSP oth.
gfs.bern[2] 1–8 October 2011 29.3 19.9 15.2 14.2 9.3 4.9 3.6 1.5 1.0 n.c. n.c. n.c. 1.1
Isopublic[3] 1–23 September 2011 28.2 20.3 15.7 14.2 9.8 5.2 3.2 n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. 3.4
gfs.bern[4] 23 August – 3 September 2011 28.0 20.5 15.6 14.5 9.5 4.5 3.1 1.6 1.0 n.c. n.c. n.c. 1.7
demoscope.ch[5] 25 July – 6 August 2011 24.8 19.5 17.8 12.4 9.9 7.2 3.0 n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. 5.4
gfs.bern[4] 25 July – 6 August 2011 27.4 18.5 16.1 15.0 10.1 4.6 2.9 1.7 1.7 n.c. n.c. n.c. 2.0
gfs.bern[6] 13–26 June 2011 27.5 18.9 15.0 13.4 10.0 5.2 3.0 2.4 1.3 n.c. n.c. n.c. 3.3
Isopublic[7] 8–18 June 2011 28.7 18.6 13.9 13.2 9.9 8.0 3.7 1.0 0.1 n.c. n.c. 0.2 1.8
gfs.bern[6] 4–16 April 2011 29.9 17.7 15.2 12.7 10.9 5.7 3.5 1.5 1.1 n.c n.c n.c 1.8
Isopublic[8] 17–26 March 2011 25.4 18.2 15.4 14.3 10.5 6.1 2.8 n.c n.c n.c n.c n.c 7.3
gfs.bern[6] 10–22 January 2011 29.8 18.0 17.7 12.9 8.8 5.2 2.6 2.2 1.5 n.c n.c n.c 1.4
Isopublic[9] 10–21 December 2010 26.0 19.1 17.1 13.8 9.1 3.2 4.5 1.4 1.2 0.5 n.c n.c 4.1
gfs.bern[6] 28 Sept. – 11 Oct. 2010 26.1 20.1 17.2 14.1 8.5 3.8 3.6 2.4 0.6 0.7 0.2 0.7 2.0
2007 federal election[10] 21 October 2007 28.9 19.5 17.7 14.5 9.6 1.4 — 2.4 1.3 0.7 0.6 0.4 2.9

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Wahlbeteiligung 2011". Politik-stat.ch. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. ^ "gfs.bern AG - öffentliche Meinung; Umfragen; Issue-Analysen; Politik, Kommunikation, Gesellschaft, Trends". Gfsbern.ch. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Detail - SonntagsZeitung". Sonntagszeitung.ch. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b [1]
  5. ^ "demoscope.ch" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d "Barometer of voting". Kunden.gfsbern.ch. Archived from the original (JPG) on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Auswertung ISOPUBLIC POLITBAROMETER im Auftrag der SonntagsZeitung & Le Matin Dimanche" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  8. ^ "Einen Moment bitte, die Ausgabe wird geladen" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  9. ^ "ISOPUBLIC POLITBAROMETER im Auftrag der SonntagsZeitung & Le Matin Dimanche" (PDF). Isopublic.ch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  10. ^ "politiquesuisse.5gigs.net". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

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