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1999 Swiss federal election

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24 October 1999

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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)

Turnout

43.3%

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Party	Leader	Vote %	Seats	+/–
National Council
Swiss People's	Ueli Maurer	22.6%	44	+15
Social Democrats	Ursula Koch	22.5%	51	−3
Free Democrats	Franz Steinegger	19.9%	43	−2
Christian Democrats	Adalbert Durrer	15.8%	35	+1
Greens	Ruedi Baumann	5.0%	8	0
Liberals	Jacques-Simon Eggly	2.2%	6	−1
Swiss Democrats	Rudolf Keller	1.8%	1	−2
Evangelical People's	Otto Zwygart	1.8%	3	+1
Federal Democrats	Christian Waber	1.2%	1	0
Labour		1.0%	2	−1
Ticino League	Giuliano Bignasca	0.9%	2	+1
LdU	Anton Schaller	0.7%	1	−2
solidaritéS		0.5%	1	+1
Christian Social		0.4%	1	0
Feminist & Greens		0.3%	1	−1
Council of States
Free Democrats			17	0
Christian Democrats			15	−1
Swiss People's			7	+2
Social Democrats			6	+1
Independent			1	+1

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Map of Swiss cantons colored by the party that won the most votes. The seats that were won in the cantons for both the National Council and the Council of States are shown as well. The independent elected to the Council of States from Obwalden sat with the FDP.

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Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 24 October 1999.^[1] Although the Swiss People's Party received the most votes for the first time in the party's history, the Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the National Council, winning 51 of the 200 seats.^[2]

^ Dieter Nohlen & Pjilip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1895 ISBN 9783832956097
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1955