THE COUNTRY DESK
Switzerland.
National Council · 200 seats · 2023
SwitzerlandCURRENT NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Guy Parmelin
President of the Swiss Confederation
2026 rotating president, first among equals in the seven-member Federal Council. Switzerland has a collective executive.
Leadership & photo sources ↗
Source checked 30 Oct 2026. Current officeholder snapshot; independent of the election year selected below.
Government leadership source (opens in a new tab)Guy Parmelin portrait (opens in a new tab) · Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei · Attribution. Display crop; original colours retained.
2023-10-22 / Local vote reporting units
Party votes by area.
Party votes may include multiple candidate votes per ballot. Percentages use the reported party-vote sum, not unique voters or seats won.
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Loading Switzerland’s local results2,143 matched geographic units · saved locally
2,143 mapped / 2,143 reporting unitsColour = largest party vote, not seats
SVPSPDie MitteFDPGPSGLPÜbrigeEVPTied / independent / unverified
Map coverage, vote definitions & attribution
Party votes may include multiple candidate votes per ballot. Percentages use the reported party-vote sum, not unique voters or seats won.
These local votes are separate from the IPU national seat archive. Shares use the sum of source-listed party votes, not registered voters. First-preference, list and candidate ballots are distinct. Names and counts are preserved from the published compilation.
2,143 of 2,143 reporting units have source-matched displayable boundaries. Non-geographic ballots, unmatched units and excluded overseas geography remain selectable. A missing boundary never becomes a zero vote or fabricated polygon.
Party colours are preserved from source identity records. Ties, independents and unverified identities use neutral grey. Text abbreviations are not official logos. Display simplification does not create legal boundary documents.
SVP artwork (opens in a new tab) · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain. Resized to fit.
SP artwork (opens in a new tab) · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain. Resized to fit.
Die Mitte artwork (opens in a new tab) · Unknown author · Public domain. Resized to fit.
Data: BLUE_DB (Hublet & Chiecchio 2026), CC BY 4.0, modified from official sources. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 and public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence. Geometry licences remain separate: © European Union / EuroGeographics, © OpenStreetMap contributors where applicable and national publishers listed below.
National seat results · 2023-10-22 · 200 seats
THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT
National Council
COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY
Simplified geographic reference. This is not a constituency or electoral district map.
Natural Earth · public domainSEATS WON AT THIS ELECTION
Parties & coalitions.
Neutral chart colours compare seat counts; they do not represent official party colours.
| Party / electoral coalition | Seats won | Share of seats |
|---|---|---|
| Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) | 62 | 31.0% |
| Socialist Party (SP/PS) | 41 | 20.5% |
| Centre Party | 29 | 14.5% |
| FDP/The Liberals (FDP/PLR) | 28 | 14.0% |
| Green Party (GPS/PES) | 23 | 11.5% |
| Liberal Green Party (GLP/PVL) | 10 | 5.0% |
| Federal Democratic Union (EDU) | 2 | 1.0% |
| Evangelical People's Party (EVP/PEV) | 2 | 1.0% |
| Geneva Citizens' Movement (MCR/MCG) | 2 | 1.0% |
| Ticino League (Lega) | 1 | 0.5% |
Largest party means most seats in this table; it is not a declaration of who formed the government. Coalitions remain grouped as published.
This national seat summary does not include constituency-level results or a riding map. Electoral boundary verification remains pending for this election.
Chambers, official links & source information
200 statutory members
Directly elected
Official chamber website (opens in a new tab)Official member directory (opens in a new tab)46 statutory members
Directly elected
Official chamber website (opens in a new tab)Official member directory (opens in a new tab)Election figures are dated snapshots. Statutory chamber membership and the current electoral-system description come from the chamber profile; they may differ from seats contested at an earlier election. A largest-party result does not establish the governing coalition.
IPU Parline election record (opens in a new tab)elections.admin.ch (opens in a new tab)admin.ch (opens in a new tab)parlament.ch (opens in a new tab)ch.ch (opens in a new tab)
Saved source check: 2026-10-29. Collection is manual; no European live feed is active.
National summary data: © Inter-Parliamentary Union, Parline. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Terms of use (opens in a new tab). Download the attributed archive .
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PARTIES
Party leadership.
Each leadership record carries its own date and source. Undated records are not verified for the election date. These names do not identify every constituency candidate or establish who governs; member-party leaders are not automatically a coalition’s joint leaders.
Swiss People's Party
Marcel Dettling
Party chair / leadership recordUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Social Democratic Party
Christian Levrat
Party chair / leadership recordUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Liberal Democratic Party
Thierry Burkart
Party chair / leadership record · from 2021-10-02Leadership recorded for 2023-10-22Leadership source (opens in a new tab)More party leadership records
Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
Michael Köpfli
General secretaryUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Evangelical People's Party
Marianne Streiff-Feller
Party chair / leadership recordUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Federal Democratic Union
Daniel Frischknecht
Party chair / leadership recordUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Lega
Attilio Bignasca
Party chair / leadership recordUndated source record — election-date leadership not verifiedLeadership source (opens in a new tab)Structured leadership source: Wikidata, CC0; primary supplements are linked individually. Missing or ambiguous records stay unassigned. Download leadership records
Coverage, boundaries and source notes
WHAT IS AVAILABLE
Coverage, clearly labelled.
6 dated election records since 2000. Party breakdowns appear only when supplied by the source; gaps are labelled.
2143 source-matched local reporting boundaries for 2023-10-22. These are not necessarily parliamentary constituencies; unmatched units remain in the list.
National party and coalition names are preserved from the source. Official party colours and logo verification remain incomplete.
National summaries are separate from regional, local and constituency results. Those detailed records require their own source and boundary checks. No European live feed is active.
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