The 2015 Swiss elections: A landslide win for the right, despite limited changes in vote share

Bochsler, Daniel; Gerber, Marlène; Zumbach, David (24 October 2015). The 2015 Swiss elections: A landslide win for the right, despite limited changes in vote share. European Politics and Policy The London School of Economics and Political Science LSE

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Switzerland held federal elections on 18 October, with the conservative Swiss People’s Party winning the largest share of the votes. Daniel Bochsler, Marlène Gerber and David Zumbach write that while the increase in vote share for the Swiss People’s Party was relatively limited, the party managed to significantly increase the number of seats it holds in Switzerland’s lower house of parliament, the National Council. Nevertheless, the party is unlikely to make substantial gains in the country’s upper house, the Senate, as it traditionally struggles under the two-round electoral system used in Senate elections.

Item Type:	Newspaper or Magazine Article
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science
UniBE Contributor:	Gerber, Marlène, Zumbach, David
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
Publisher:	The London School of Economics and Political Science LSE
Language:	English
Submitter:	Marlène Gerber
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2016 10:10
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:56
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/82756