Switzerland National Council election 2019 — Results

Election day: October 20, 2019

Figures from official electoral authorities · last checked 2 Nov 2026, 17:19 UTC
  • Swiss People's Party: 25.59%, 53 seats
  • Social Democrats: 16.84%, 39 seats
  • FDP.The Liberals: 15.11%, 29 seats
  • Greens: 13.24%, 28 seats
  • Christian Democrats: 11.38%, 25 seats
  • Green Liberals: 7.80%, 16 seats
  • Conservative Democrats: 2.47%, 3 seats
  • Evangelical People's Party: 2.08%, 3 seats

Turnout: 45.10%

About this election

How the voting works

The 200 members of the National Council were elected, as every four years, from the 26 cantons. The twenty larger cantons use open-list proportional representation with panachage and cumulation and no legal threshold; the six smallest each elect a single member by plurality. The cantonal Council of States (46 seats) is elected separately under cantonal rules. Because each canton is a constituency of very unequal size — from Zürich's 35 seats to the single-member cantons — the geography of party strength can be read directly on the canton map. This page presents the National Council result.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.

In numbers

  • 8.75 points separated Swiss People's Party from Social Democrats — 212,215 votes.
  • Swiss People's Party converted 25.59% of the vote into 53 of 200 seats (26.50%), 0.91 points more than its vote share.
  • The top two shared 42.43% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
  • Swiss People's Party moved −3.84 points against the 2015 National Council election (29.43% → 25.59%).
  • Support for Swiss People's Party ranged from 39.50% in SH to 11.70% in TI — a spread of 27.80 points across 20 regions, and it led in 11 of 20.

Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.

Understanding this election

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