2007 Swiss federal election

2007 Swiss federal election
Switzerland
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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)
Turnout48.3% Increase 3.1 pp
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
National Council
Swiss People's Ueli Maurer 28.9% 62 +7
Social Democrats Hans-Jürg Fehr 19.5% 43 −9
Free Democrats Fulvio Pelli 15.8% 31 −5
Christian Democrats Christophe Darbellay 14.5% 31 +3
Greens Ruth Genner 9.6% 20 +7
Liberals Claude Ruey 1.9% 4 0
Green Liberals Martin Bäumle 1.4% 3 New
Evangelical People's Ruedi Aeschbacher 2.4% 2 −1
Federal Democrats Hans Moser 1.3% 1 −1
Labour 0.7% 1 −1
Ticino League Giuliano Bignasca 0.6% 1 0
Christian Social Monika Bloch Süss 0.4% 1 0
Council of States
Christian Democrats 15 0
Free Democrats 12 −2
Social Democrats 9 0
Swiss People's 7 −1
Greens 2 +2
Green Liberals 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.

Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007. For the 48th legislative term of the federal parliament (2007–2011), voters in 26 cantons elected all 200 members of the National Council as well as 43 out of 46 members of the Council of States. The other three members of the Council of States for that term of service were elected at an earlier date.[1]

On 12 December 2007, the newly elected legislature elected the Swiss federal government, the Swiss Federal Council, for a four-year-term.

The results reflected yet another rise in support for the strongest party, the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party, at 29% of the popular vote, and the growth of the Green and Green Liberal parties at the expense of the Social Democrats.[2]

  1. ^ The date of the election of the members of the Council of States is a matter of cantonal law. 24 cantons have chosen to let the elections coincide with the federally regulated National Council elections. Two cantons are electing their members of the Council of States at an earlier date: Zug reelected its incumbents Peter Bieri and Rolf Schweiger on 29 October 2006, while Appenzell Innerrhoden elected Ivo Bischofsberger as its one representative in that Council on 29 April 2007.
  2. ^ main migration of voters was from SPS to GPS and GLP. Minor movements from CVP to GLP, and some migration from all of SPS, CVP and FDP to SVP [1]