Switzerland National Council election 2023 — Results

Election day: October 22, 2023

Figures from official electoral authorities · last checked 2 Nov 2026, 17:19 UTC
  • Swiss People's Party: 27.93%, 62 seats
  • Social Democrats: 18.27%, 41 seats
  • The Centre: 14.06%, 29 seats
  • FDP.The Liberals: 14.25%, 28 seats
  • Greens: 9.78%, 23 seats
  • Green Liberals: 7.55%, 10 seats
  • Evangelical People's Party: 1.95%, 2 seats
  • Others: 6.20%, 5 seats

Turnout: 46.60%

About this election

How the voting works

As in every federal election, the 200 members of the National Council were elected from the 26 cantons by open-list proportional representation in the twenty larger cantons (with panachage, cumulation and no threshold) and by plurality in the six single-member cantons. The Council of States (46 seats) was renewed separately under cantonal rules, with run-off second rounds in several cantons through November. The Centre party contesting in 2023 was the product of the 2021 merger of the Christian Democrats (CVP) and the Conservative Democrats (BDP). This page shows the National Council result.

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

In numbers

  • 9.66 points separated Swiss People's Party from Social Democrats — 246,757 votes.
  • Swiss People's Party converted 27.93% of the vote into 62 of 200 seats (31.00%), 3.07 points more than its vote share.
  • The top two shared 46.20% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
  • Swiss People's Party moved +2.34 points against the 2019 National Council election (25.59% → 27.93%).
  • Support for Swiss People's Party ranged from 40.30% in TG to 13.60% in BS — a spread of 26.70 points across 20 regions, and it led in 12 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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