Swiss federal election, 1999
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The Swiss federal election, 1999 was a federal election
that took place in Switzerland
in 1999.
Election
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
that took place in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
in 1999.
Results
| Party | Abbr. | Seats | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social-Democratic Party Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland.... |
SP | 51 | 22.5% |
| Swiss People's Party Swiss People's Party The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of... |
SVP | 44 | 22.5% |
| Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Free Democratic Party of Switzerland The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009.... |
FDP | 43 | 19.9% |
| Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss... |
CVP | 35 | 15.8% |
| Green Party of Switzerland Green Party of Switzerland The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:... |
GPS | 9 | 5.0% |
| Liberal Party of Switzerland Liberal Party of Switzerland The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals.... |
LPS | 6 | 2.3% |
| Evangelical People's Party Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland is a political party in Switzerland.In questions of redistribution, education, environmentalism, immigration policy, the EVP stands rather center-left. In questions of euthanasia, abortion, and registered partnership and other typically Christian... |
EVP | 3 | 1.8% |
| Swiss Democrats Swiss Democrats The Swiss Democrats are a right-wing political party in Switzerland.The party is not represented in the Federal Assembly, but has two members of the Grand Council of Aargau.... |
SD | 1 | 1.8% |
| Federal Democratic Union | EDU | 1 | 1.3% |
| Swiss Labour Party Swiss Labour Party The Swiss Party of Labour is a socialist party in Switzerland.The party was founded in 1944 by the illegal Communist Party of Switzerland. On May 21 the constituent conference of the Basel Federation of the party was held. On October 14-15 the same year the first Party Congress of the party was... |
PdA | 2 | 1.0% |
| Ticino League Ticino League The Ticino League is an isolationist, national conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino.In 1991, after some public campaigning in the Sunday journal Mattino della Domenica against political power and use of public money, the editor Giuliano Bignasca and the... |
LdT | 2 | 0.9% |
| Freedom Party of Switzerland Freedom Party of Switzerland The Freedom Party of Switzerland is a minor populist right-wing political party in Switzerland. Its president and leading representative is Jürg Scherrer, formerly the head of the security department in the city government of Biel/Bienne until 2008.- History :The FPS was founded 1984 in Zürich by... |
FPS | 0 | 0.9% |
| Ring of Independents | LDU | 1 | 0.7% |
| Solidarities Solidarities solidaritéS is a left socialist political party in Switzerland. It was founded in 1992 in Geneva.In the 2003 legislative elections the party won 0.5 % of the popular vote and 1 out of 200 seats. In the 2007 elections the party won 0.4 % of the popular vote and no seats.The party participates in... |
SOL | 1 | 0.5% |
| Christian Social Party Christian Social Party (Switzerland) The Christian Social Party is a political party in Switzerland. The CSP is more social democratic than the CVP. With the moderate Christian left as its background, the CSP commits itself to social democratic and environmentalist political solutions... |
CSP | 1 | 0.4% |
| Alternative List Alternative List The Alternative List , abbreviated to AL, is a socialist political party in Switzerland.The AL has existed since 1990 as a loose coalition of left-wing activists. At the beginning of 2007, the AL Zurich was transformed into a political union... |
A | 0 | 0.3% |
| Others | --- | 0 | 2.1% |