Swiss federal election, 1919

26 October 1919

All 100 seats in the National Council
All 44 seats in the Council of States

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Robert Schöpfer	Gustav Müller	Joseph Räber
Party	Free Democrats	Social Democrats	Conservative People's
Leader since	1919	1919	1919
Seats won	60 + 23	41 + 0	41 + 17
Popular vote	215,566	175,292	156,702
Percentage	28.8%	23.5%	21.0%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Rudolf Minger	?	?
Party	Farmers, Traders and Independents	Liberal Democrats	Democrats
Leader since	1917
Seats won	30 + 1	9 + 2	4 + 1
Popular vote	114,537	28,497	14,677
Percentage	15.3%	3.8%	2.0%

	Seventh party

Leader	?
Party	Evangelical People's
Seats won	1 + 0
Popular vote	6,031
Percentage	0.8%

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Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 26 October 1919.^[1] The Free Democratic Party emerged as the largest party in the National Council, winning 60 of the 189 seats.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Free Democratic Party	215,566	28.8	60	–43
Social Democratic Party	175,292	23.5	41	+21
Swiss Conservative People's Party	156,702	21.0	41	–1
Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents	114,537	15.3	30	+26
Liberal Democratic Party	28,497	3.8	9	–3
Grütli Union	20,559	2.8	2	New
Democratic Group	14,677	2.0	4	–3
Evangelical People's Party	6,031	0.8	1	+1
Young Radicals	15,342	2.1	1	+1
Other parties	15,342	2.1	0	–
Invalid/blank votes	13,397	–	–	–
Total	760,600	100	189	0
Registered voters/turnout	946,271	80.4	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

In several cantons the members of the Council of States were chosen by the cantonal parliaments.^[3]

Party	Seats
Free Democratic Party	23
Swiss Conservative People's Party	17
Liberal Democratic Party	2
Democratic Group	1
Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents	1
Social Democratic Party	0
Other parties	0
Total	44
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1894 ISBN 9783832956097
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1953
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1956

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