2007 Swiss federal election

2007 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)
Turnout	48.3% 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]

The Swiss People's Party successfully came out of the election as the strongest party, rising another 2.3% to 29.0% of the popular vote. Among the left-wing parties, support of the Social Democrats eroded to the benefit of the Green and Green Liberal parties.

The right-wing parties won 64 seats made up of the SVP with 62 seats and a single seat of the Christian right Federal Democratic Union and the regional Ticino League respectively. The left-wing parties won 65 seats, with 43 of the Social Democrats, 20 of the Green party, and the Christian-left Christian Social Party and the far-left Labour Party with a single seat each. The centrist parties won 71 seats, with the CVP and the centre-right FDP each having won 31 seats, and the remaining 9 seats won by minor parties: Liberals, 4 seats; Green Liberals, 3 seats; Evangelical People's Party, 2 seats.

59 of 200 seats (29.5%) were won by women, as compared to 50 in 2003. Ricardo Lumengo (Social Democrats, born in Angola) is notable as the first black Swiss national councillor. 23 incumbents did not get re-elected and lost their mandate, among them Zürich right wing politician Ulrich Schlüer (SVP). The turnout of the election was 48,9% a rise of 3,7% from the previous elections in 2003.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swiss People's Party	666,318	28.59	62	+7
	Social Democratic Party	450,116	19.32	43	–9
	Free Democratic Party	361,103	15.50	31	–5
	Christian Democratic People's Party	332,920	14.29	31	+3
	Green Party	220,785	9.47	20	+7
	Evangelical People's Party	56,361	2.42	2	–1
	Green Liberal Party	49,314	2.12	3	New
	Liberal Party	42,356	1.82	4	0
	Federal Democratic Union	29,548	1.27	1	–1
	Swiss Party of Labour	16,649	0.71	1	–1
	Ticino League	13,031	0.56	1	0
	Christian Social Party	9,985	0.43	1	0
	Others	81,897	3.51	0	–
Total		2,330,383	100.00	200	0
Valid votes		2,330,383	98.20
Invalid/blank votes		42,688	1.80
Total votes		2,373,071	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,915,563	48.28
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Contrary to the developments in the National Council, the Council of States remains dominated by the traditional centrist parties FDP and CVP. Robert Cramer (Geneva) is the first member of the Green Party to be elected to the Council of States, joined in the second round by Luc Recordon of Vaud. Verena Diener (Zurich), formerly of the Green Party, wins a Council of States seat for the newly founded Green Liberal Party. Christine Egerszegi of Aargau (FDP) is the first woman councillor elected in that canton.

Party		Seats	+/–
	Christian Democratic People's Party	15	0
	Free Democratic Party	12	–2
	Social Democratic Party	9	0
	Swiss People's Party	7	–1
	Green Party	2	+2
	Green Liberal Party	1	+1
Total		46	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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• Swiss Federal Statistical Office (3 December 2007). "Nationalratswahlen 2007. Der Wandel der Parteienlandschaft seit 1971". Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2007. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

• NSD: European Election Database - Switzerland Archived 15 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1991–2007