The results are in and it was quite an eventful day for Swiss politics with a clear rise of the “green” and “glp” parties and big losses for others in the national council.
SVP now stands at 54 seats (-11)
SP is at 38 seats (-5)
FDP has 29 seats (-4)
Green now has 28 seats (+17)
CVP has 25 seats (-3)
GLP has 16 (+9)
BDP 3 (-4)
other 7
The shift is clearly towards a climate change friendly political agenda with the green party gaining a whooping 17 extra seats and the Green Liberal party a 9 further seats. On another note this is the youngest parliament ever voted in, with an average age of 49 (the youngest is 25, eldest 72). 85 women have also been elected bringing the percentage of women to 42,5%, it previously was 32%.
For the State Council things are less clear with very often only one seat decided on.
In the case of Lucerne FDP candidate Damian Müller had the required majority of 65 476 voices, he got 65784, but CVP runner up Andrea Gmür only got 54 861, meaning that should the third highest scoring candidate Franz Grüter, SVP (38 358) not step down there will need to be a new election for the second seat.
Zug elected CVP candidate Peter Hegglin; Schwyz SVP candidate Alex Kuprecht; Obwalden elected both candidates: CVP Erich Ettlin and SVP Monike Rüegger; Nidwalden elected FDP candidate Hans Wicki and Uri elected both candidates: CVP Heidi Z’graggen and FDP candidate Josef Dittli – all candidates are from more conservative parties (no SP, Green or GLP candidates were elected).
Finally the city of Lucerne had a referendum about a new bike underground and this was approved by 61,6%
The next referendum date will be November 24.
