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Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (German: Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (French: Parti démocrate-chrétien, PDC), Democratic People's Party (Italian: Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD) and Swiss Christian Democratic Party (Romansh: Partida cristiandemocratica Svizra ), PCD), was a Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland.[8][9] On 1 January 2021,[10] it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre, which now operates at the federal level. The Christian Democratic People's Party will continue to exist at the cantonal level as individual local and regional parties determine their status.

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
  • Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei (German)
  • Parti démocrate-chrétien (French)
  • Partito Popolare Democratico (Italian)
  • Partida Cristiandemocratica (Romansh)
PresidentGerhard Pfister
Vice Presidents
General SecretaryGianna Luzio
Member in Federal CouncilViola Amherd
Founded22 April 1912
Dissolved31 December 2020
Merged intoThe Centre
HeadquartersHirschengraben 9
CH-3011 Bern
Youth wingYoung CVP
Membership (2015)100,000[1]
Ideology
Political positionCentre[3][4][5] to
centre-right[6][7]
European affiliationEuropean People's Party (associate)
International affiliationCentrist Democrat International
Colours  Orange

Its 28 parliamentary seats in the National Council and 13 parliamentary seats in the Council of States were transferred to the new party, as was its sole executive seat on the Federal Council, held by Viola Amherd.

The party was founded as the Catholic Conservative Party in 1912. It peaked in the 1950s, having three members of the Federal Council (1954–1958) before agreeing to the magic formula. It adopted its current name in 1970. From 1979 to 2003, the party's vote declined, mostly in the favour of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC); the party was reduced to one Federal Councillor at the 2003 Federal Council election.

The party sat in the centre to centre-right of the political spectrum, advocating Christian democracy, the social market economy and moderate social conservatism. The party was strongest in Catholic rural areas, particularly Central Switzerland and Valais.

History

In 1912 the Catholic-Conservative Party of Switzerland (German: Katholisch-Konservative Partei der Schweiz) was founded. From 1919 on, the party occupied two out of the seven seats in the cabinet. Aided by the political climate of the postwar period, the party experienced its peak in the 1950s: It was represented by the biggest parliamentary delegation in the Federal Council, and from 1954 to 1958 the party occupied three out of seven seats in the cabinet. Nonetheless, the party had to relinquish the third seat in favor of the 'magic formula', which was introduced to the cabinet in 1959. In 1957 it changed its name to the Conservative-Christian-Social People's Party (German: Konservativ-Christlichsoziale Volkspartei) and to its current name in 1970. In the ensuing decades, the Catholic voter base dissolved somewhat. The reduction of the voter base, in addition to less cohesion among politicians in the party, led to six successive losses in federal elections after 1980.

The party lost its support over a number of years. Beginning in the 1990s, conservative voters from former strongholds of the CVP switched to vote for the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party. From the 1995 election to the 2019 election, the CVP's vote share decreased from 16.8% to 11.4%.[11] After the 2003 election, Ruth Metzler of the CVP, was replaced by Christoph Blocher of the Swiss People's Party on the Federal Council, leaving the CVP with only one seat in the country's executive.[12]

CVP President Gerhard Pfister and BDP President Martin Landolt, the leader of the Conservative Democratic Party, had ongoing discussions about a merger throughout 2020.[13][14] In 2020, Pfister announced that the national CVP would undergo a change in branding with a new name and logo as part of a merger with the BDP. The party proposed to change the name to "The Center" or "The Alliance of the Center" (German: Die Mitte, CVP; French: Le Centre, PDC; Italian: Alleanza del Centro, PPD; Romansh: Allianza dal Center) which is the name of the parliamentary group that the CVP shares with the other center-right parties, the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland and the Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland.[15] The merger was ratified by a vote of the entire party in November 2020.[16][17][18][19] Cantonal parties were not required to adopt the new name if they do not wish to do so.[11] Pfister estimated that a new center-right party could obtain up to 20% of the vote in future elections.[20]

Platform

In its party platform, the CVP described itself as a centrist party. The CVP fostered a social market economy in which a balance is struck between economic liberalism and social justice. The expansion of the party in the Protestant-dominated cantons, in which the CVP uphold rather centrist policies, stands in contrast to the traditional role of the CVP as the leading party in rather Catholic-dominated cantons of central Switzerland and the cantons of Valais. There, the electorate was mostly socially conservative.

The CVP had three main policies in the political centre:[citation needed]

  • The CVP uphold the social market economy. It supports exporting industries and more spending on education, research and development. It also aims at combating the black market and tax evasion. In order to increase efficiency and incentives, the CVP calls for the reduction and streamlining of bureaucratic procedures and government agencies, low taxation for family enterprises and those who offer vocational education and internships. The CVP calls for equal wages and job opportunities for both men and women.
  • The CVP called for flexible working times, childcare and affordable housing.
  • The CVP aimed at ensuring social security. The CVP calls for reforms of the social security system, by raising taxes on demerit goods (e.g. tobacco taxes) to generate more revenues for the pension funds. The retirement age of 65 should also be upheld. The public health care system should be streamlined by a reduction of waiting times of medical procedures in order to ensure equitable services. The CVP also promotes workfare as the primary means to combat unemployment.

Popular support

 
Percentages of the CVP at district level in 2011
 
The Christian Democrats are the largest party in Catholic southern and central Switzerland, and are the largest party in seven cantonal legislatures (coloured orange above).
 
The CVP's positions in the Swiss political spectrum (2007). Positions of voters and of party elites (elected officials) are shown separately. Data from the 2007 general election.[21]

Following continuing losses in the federal parliamentary elections until 2003, in December 2003, the party lost one of its two seats in the four-party coalition government, the Swiss Federal Council, to the Swiss People's Party. The CVP holds roughly 12% of the popular vote.

After the national election in late 2003, it held 28 seats (out of 200) in the Swiss National Council (first chamber of the Swiss parliament); 15 (out of 46) in the Council of States (second chamber, and the largest party in this chamber) and 1 out of 7 seats in the Swiss Federal Council (executive body).

In 2005, it held 20.7% of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal governments and 16.7% in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments (index "BADAC", weighted with the population and number of seats). At the last legislative national elections, 22 October 2007, the party won 14.6% of the popular vote and 31 out of 200 seats in the National Council lower house.[22] This was a gain of 3 seats, ending the long-term decline of the party and it was the only one of the four largest parties besides the Swiss People's Party to gain votes and seats.

In the Federal Assembly, the CVP formerly sat in a bloc in the Christian Democrats/EPP/glp Group, along with the Evangelical People's Party and Green Liberal Party.[23]

Election results

National Council

Election Votes % Seats +/–
1914 71,668 21.1 (#2)
37 / 189
1917 84,784 16.4 (#3)
42 / 189
  5
1919 156,702 21.0 (#3)
41 / 189
  1
1922 153,836 20.9 (#3)
44 / 198
  3
1925 155,467 20.9 (#3)
42 / 198
  2
1928 172,516 21.4 (#3)
46 / 198
  4
1931 184,602 21.4 (#3)
44 / 187
  2
1935 185,052 20.3 (#3)
42 / 187
  2
1939 105,018 17.0 (#3)
43 / 187
  1
1943 182,916 20.8 (#3)
43 / 194
 
1947 203,202 21.2 (#3)
44 / 194
  1
1951 216,616 22.5 (#3)
48 / 196
  4
1955 226,122 23.2 (#3)
47 / 196
  1
1959 229,088 23.3 (#3)
47 / 196
 
1963 225,160 23.4 (#3)
48 / 200
  1
1967 219,184 22.1 (#3)
45 / 200
  3
1971 407,225 20.4 (#3)
44 / 200
  1
1975 407,286 21.1 (#3)
46 / 200
  2
1979 390,281 21.3 (#3)
44 / 200
  2
1983 396,281 20.2 (#3)
42 / 200
  2
1987 378,822 19.6 (#2)
42 / 200
 
1991 367,928 18.0 (#3)
35 / 200
  7
1995 319,972 16.8 (#3)
34 / 200
  1
1999 309,118 15.8 (#4)
35 / 200
  1
2003 301,652 14.4 (#4)
28 / 200
  7
2007 335,623 14.5 (#4)
31 / 200
  3
2011 300,544 12.3 (#4)
28 / 200
  3
2015 293,653 11.6 (#4)
27 / 200
  1
2019 275,842 11.4 (#5)
25 / 200
  2

Party strength over time

Canton 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Percentage of the total vote for Christian Democratic People's Party in Federal Elections 1971–2019[24]
Switzerland 20.3 21.1 21.3 20.2 19.6 18.0 16.8 15.9 14.4 14.5 12.3 11.6 11.4
Zürich 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.1 7.1 5.9 4.9 5.1 5.4 7.6 5.0 4.2 4.4
Bern 5.3 5.3 2.5 2.1 2.4 2.6 1.8 2.4 2.3 4.7 2.1 1.8 1.9
Luzern 48.8 50.1 50.4 49.6 47.0 48.6 37.3 33.8 29.5 30.2 27.1 23.9 25.5
Uri *a 18.6 * * * * * * * * * 26.8 39.2
Schwyz 38.5 46.4 49.4 46.6 36.9 32.8 27.4 27.3 23.4 20.1 20.6 19.5 18.4
Obwalden 67.0 97.1 95.7 91.0 51.7 95.3 94.2 * 66.4 32.5 * * 36.7
Nidwalden 97.2 97.6 49.5 97.2 96.9 97.7 32.1 * * * * * 35.8
Glarus * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Zug * 39.4 34.1 39.9 34.2 34.2 27.1 26.4 22.9 23.3 24.3 26.4 23.8
Fribourg 41.5 46.9 39.9 37.9 37.7 36.8 36.0 33.7 25.4 24.8 20.3 22.7 17.8
Solothurn 27.7 26.0 27.6 26.7 25.1 22.2 21.5 21.4 21.0 20.4 17.9 14.8 14.2
Basel-Stadt 11.2 12.1 13.9 9.9 10.0 10.4 9.7 8.6 6.6 7.4 6.5 6.4 4.6
Basel-Landschaft 13.3 13.3 11.5 10.8 12.3 11.6 11.7 12.0 10.0 11.4 8.2 9.1 8.5
Schaffhausen 8.0 * * 6.3 * * * * 2.7 * 5.2 * 2.1
Appenzell A.Rh. * 14.1 * 14.5 * 16.7 9.5 * * * 10.6 * *
Appenzell I.Rh. 96.1 98.3 97.2 95.6 91.8 98.7 85.4 73.5 69.2 84.6 76.1 76.3 61.3
St. Gallen 44.0 43.3 44.1 40.8 39.4 35.8 31.0 26.2 22.2 21.4 20.3 16.6 18.8
Graubünden 37.3 35.9 35.5 33.3 28.5 25.6 26.9 25.6 23.7 20.3 16.6 16.8 16.3
Aargau 20.0 20.6 22.5 21.5 18.9 14.5 14.2 16.3 15.6 13.5 10.6 8.6 9.9
Thurgau 23.4 22.3 24.6 21.6 20.4 16.5 13.0 15.7 16.5 15.2 14.4 13.1 12.7
Ticino 34.8 35.7 34.1 34.0 38.2 26.9 28.4 25.9 24.6 24.1 20.0 20.1 18.2
Vaud 5.3 4.6 5.1 4.5 4.1 3.6 5.6 4.5 4.4 5.6 4.6 4.1 2.4
Valais 61.5 59.7 58.8 57.5 58.7 54.3 54.8 51.4 47.9 44.9 39.9 39.8 34.8
Neuchâtel * * * * * * * * * 3.3 3.5 3.6 4.2
Genève 13.8 14.7 14.0 12.3 14.6 14.5 13.4 14.1 11.8 9.7 9.8 12.1 7.7
Jura b b 37.7 25.1 33.0 36.0 38.2 39.2 39.5 25.0 33.2 27.6 22.8
1.^a A "*" indicates that the party was not on the ballot in this canton.
2.^b Part of the Canton of Bern until 1979.

Presidents

Secretaries-General

  • 1988–1992 Iwan Rickenbacher
  • 1992–1997 Raymond Loretan
  • 1997–2001 Hilmar Gernet
  • 2001–2008 Reto Nause
  • 2009–2012 Tim Frey
  • 2012–2018 Béatrice Wertli
  • 2018–2020 Gianna Luzio

Notes and references

  1. ^ . Federal Chancellery. 2015. p. 19. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Switzerland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  3. ^ Altermatt, Urs (2013). CVP: Von der katholischen Milieupartei zur Partei der bürgerlichen Mitte. Die Parteien in Bewegung: Nachbarschaft und Konflikte. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. pp. 36–37.
  4. ^ Burlacu, Diana; Tóka, Gábor (2014). Policy-based Voting and the Type of Democracy. Elections and Democracy: Representation and Accountability. Oxford University Press.
  5. ^ Budge, Ian; Keman, Hans; McDonald, Michael D.; Pennings, Paul (2012). Organizing Democratic Choice: Party Representation Over Time. Oxford University Press. p. 134.
  6. ^ Damir Skenderovic (2009). The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945-2000. Berghahn Books. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84545-948-2. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  7. ^ Freedom House (1 December 2011). Freedom in the World 2011: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 649. ISBN 978-1-4422-0996-1.
  8. ^ Philip Manow; Kees van Kersbergen (2009). Religion and the Western Welfare State—The Theoretical Context. Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States. Cambridge University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-521-89791-4. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  9. ^ Bale, Tim (2021). Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-009-00686-6. OCLC 1256593260.
  10. ^ Europe Elects [@EuropeElects] (2 January 2021). "Switzerland: Yesterday, CVP (EPP) and BDP (*) merged" (Tweet). from the original on 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via Twitter.
  11. ^ a b "Die CVP soll neu "Die Mitte" heissen" (in German). SRF. 4 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Assemblée du PDC: «Le Centre peut atteindre 20% et se renforcer à l'exécutif en 2027»". Le Nouvelliste (in French). 5 September 2020.
  13. ^ "BDP will mit Statutenänderung Weg für Fusion ebnen" (in German). Nau.ch. 5 September 2020.
  14. ^ "Martin Landolt und Gerhard Pfister bereiten BDP-CVP-Fusion vor" (in German). Nau.ch. 28 May 2020.
  15. ^ "CVP soll neu "Die Mitte" heissen" (in German). Telebasel. 4 September 2020.
  16. ^ "CVP schliesst sich mit BDP zur "Die Mitte" zusammen". Swissinfo (in German). 28 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  17. ^ "BDP-Delegierte sagen Ja zum Zusammenschluss mit der CVP". Suedostschweiz (in German). 14 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  18. ^ "CVP und BDP sind ab 2021 «Die Mitte»". Schweizer Bauer (in German). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  19. ^ Wientzek, Olaf (1 December 2020). "Historic day for Swiss Christian Democrats – Merger and Farewell to the "C"". Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  20. ^ ""Die Mitte": CVP präsentiert neuen Namen und Logo". Nau.ch (in German). 4 September 2020.
  21. ^ The data is based on research by Philipp Leimgruber (University of Bern), Dominik Hangartner (Washington University) and Lucas Leemann (Columbia University), as part of the University of Lausanne's Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects), http://www2.unil.ch/selects[permanent dead link], as published in Comparing Candidates and Citizens in the Ideological Space, Swiss Political Science Review 16(3) pp. 499-531(33). The graphical representation of the data is based on a graphic published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 30 October 2010, p.13.
  22. ^ Nationalrat 2007
  23. ^ [1] 3 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ Nationalratswahlen: Kantonale Parteistärke (Kanton = 100%) (Report). Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2020.


Further reading

  • Gees, Thomas (2004). Michael Gehler; Wolfram Kaiser (eds.). Successful as a 'Go Between': The Conservative People's Party in Switzerland. Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945. Routledge. pp. 33–46. ISBN 0-7146-5662-3.
  • Rölli-Alkemper, Lukas (2004). Wolfram Kaiser; Helmut Wohnout (eds.). Catholics between Emancipation and Integration: The Conservative People's Party in Switzerland. Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-45. Routledge. pp. 53–64. ISBN 0-7146-5650-X.

External links

  • Official website
  • Christian Democratic People`s Party of Switzerland in History of Social Security in Switzerland

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The Christian Democratic People s Party of Switzerland German Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz CVP also called the Christian Democratic Party French Parti democrate chretien PDC Democratic People s Party Italian Partito Popolare Democratico PPD and Swiss Christian Democratic Party Romansh Partida cristiandemocratica Svizra help info PCD was a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland 8 9 On 1 January 2021 10 it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland BDP PBD to form The Centre which now operates at the federal level The Christian Democratic People s Party will continue to exist at the cantonal level as individual local and regional parties determine their status Christian Democratic People s Party of Switzerland Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei German Parti democrate chretien French Partito Popolare Democratico Italian Partida Cristiandemocratica Romansh PresidentGerhard PfisterVice PresidentsIda GlanzmannCharles JuillardGeneral SecretaryGianna LuzioMember in Federal CouncilViola AmherdFounded22 April 1912Dissolved31 December 2020Merged intoThe CentreHeadquartersHirschengraben 9 CH 3011 BernYouth wingYoung CVPMembership 2015 100 000 1 IdeologyChristian democracy 2 Social conservatismSupport for EU bilateral accordsPolitical positionCentre 3 4 5 tocentre right 6 7 European affiliationEuropean People s Party associate International affiliationCentrist Democrat InternationalColours OrangePolitics of SwitzerlandPolitical partiesElectionsIts 28 parliamentary seats in the National Council and 13 parliamentary seats in the Council of States were transferred to the new party as was its sole executive seat on the Federal Council held by Viola Amherd The party was founded as the Catholic Conservative Party in 1912 It peaked in the 1950s having three members of the Federal Council 1954 1958 before agreeing to the magic formula It adopted its current name in 1970 From 1979 to 2003 the party s vote declined mostly in the favour of the Swiss People s Party SVP UDC the party was reduced to one Federal Councillor at the 2003 Federal Council election The party sat in the centre to centre right of the political spectrum advocating Christian democracy the social market economy and moderate social conservatism The party was strongest in Catholic rural areas particularly Central Switzerland and Valais Contents 1 History 2 Platform 3 Popular support 4 Election results 4 1 National Council 5 Party strength over time 6 Presidents 7 Secretaries General 8 Notes and references 9 Further reading 10 External linksHistory EditIn 1912 the Catholic Conservative Party of Switzerland German Katholisch Konservative Partei der Schweiz was founded From 1919 on the party occupied two out of the seven seats in the cabinet Aided by the political climate of the postwar period the party experienced its peak in the 1950s It was represented by the biggest parliamentary delegation in the Federal Council and from 1954 to 1958 the party occupied three out of seven seats in the cabinet Nonetheless the party had to relinquish the third seat in favor of the magic formula which was introduced to the cabinet in 1959 In 1957 it changed its name to the Conservative Christian Social People s Party German Konservativ Christlichsoziale Volkspartei and to its current name in 1970 In the ensuing decades the Catholic voter base dissolved somewhat The reduction of the voter base in addition to less cohesion among politicians in the party led to six successive losses in federal elections after 1980 The party lost its support over a number of years Beginning in the 1990s conservative voters from former strongholds of the CVP switched to vote for the right wing populist Swiss People s Party From the 1995 election to the 2019 election the CVP s vote share decreased from 16 8 to 11 4 11 After the 2003 election Ruth Metzler of the CVP was replaced by Christoph Blocher of the Swiss People s Party on the Federal Council leaving the CVP with only one seat in the country s executive 12 CVP President Gerhard Pfister and BDP President Martin Landolt the leader of the Conservative Democratic Party had ongoing discussions about a merger throughout 2020 13 14 In 2020 Pfister announced that the national CVP would undergo a change in branding with a new name and logo as part of a merger with the BDP The party proposed to change the name to The Center or The Alliance of the Center German Die Mitte CVP French Le Centre PDC Italian Alleanza del Centro PPD Romansh Allianza dal Center which is the name of the parliamentary group that the CVP shares with the other center right parties the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland and the Evangelical People s Party of Switzerland 15 The merger was ratified by a vote of the entire party in November 2020 16 17 18 19 Cantonal parties were not required to adopt the new name if they do not wish to do so 11 Pfister estimated that a new center right party could obtain up to 20 of the vote in future elections 20 Platform EditIn its party platform the CVP described itself as a centrist party The CVP fostered a social market economy in which a balance is struck between economic liberalism and social justice The expansion of the party in the Protestant dominated cantons in which the CVP uphold rather centrist policies stands in contrast to the traditional role of the CVP as the leading party in rather Catholic dominated cantons of central Switzerland and the cantons of Valais There the electorate was mostly socially conservative The CVP had three main policies in the political centre citation needed The CVP uphold the social market economy It supports exporting industries and more spending on education research and development It also aims at combating the black market and tax evasion In order to increase efficiency and incentives the CVP calls for the reduction and streamlining of bureaucratic procedures and government agencies low taxation for family enterprises and those who offer vocational education and internships The CVP calls for equal wages and job opportunities for both men and women The CVP called for flexible working times childcare and affordable housing The CVP aimed at ensuring social security The CVP calls for reforms of the social security system by raising taxes on demerit goods e g tobacco taxes to generate more revenues for the pension funds The retirement age of 65 should also be upheld The public health care system should be streamlined by a reduction of waiting times of medical procedures in order to ensure equitable services The CVP also promotes workfare as the primary means to combat unemployment Popular support Edit Percentages of the CVP at district level in 2011 The Christian Democrats are the largest party in Catholic southern and central Switzerland and are the largest party in seven cantonal legislatures coloured orange above The CVP s positions in the Swiss political spectrum 2007 Positions of voters and of party elites elected officials are shown separately Data from the 2007 general election 21 Following continuing losses in the federal parliamentary elections until 2003 in December 2003 the party lost one of its two seats in the four party coalition government the Swiss Federal Council to the Swiss People s Party The CVP holds roughly 12 of the popular vote After the national election in late 2003 it held 28 seats out of 200 in the Swiss National Council first chamber of the Swiss parliament 15 out of 46 in the Council of States second chamber and the largest party in this chamber and 1 out of 7 seats in the Swiss Federal Council executive body In 2005 it held 20 7 of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal governments and 16 7 in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments index BADAC weighted with the population and number of seats At the last legislative national elections 22 October 2007 the party won 14 6 of the popular vote and 31 out of 200 seats in the National Council lower house 22 This was a gain of 3 seats ending the long term decline of the party and it was the only one of the four largest parties besides the Swiss People s Party to gain votes and seats In the Federal Assembly the CVP formerly sat in a bloc in the Christian Democrats EPP glp Group along with the Evangelical People s Party and Green Liberal Party 23 Election results EditNational Council Edit Election Votes Seats 1914 71 668 21 1 2 37 1891917 84 784 16 4 3 42 189 51919 156 702 21 0 3 41 189 11922 153 836 20 9 3 44 198 31925 155 467 20 9 3 42 198 21928 172 516 21 4 3 46 198 41931 184 602 21 4 3 44 187 21935 185 052 20 3 3 42 187 21939 105 018 17 0 3 43 187 11943 182 916 20 8 3 43 194 1947 203 202 21 2 3 44 194 11951 216 616 22 5 3 48 196 41955 226 122 23 2 3 47 196 11959 229 088 23 3 3 47 196 1963 225 160 23 4 3 48 200 11967 219 184 22 1 3 45 200 31971 407 225 20 4 3 44 200 11975 407 286 21 1 3 46 200 21979 390 281 21 3 3 44 200 21983 396 281 20 2 3 42 200 21987 378 822 19 6 2 42 200 1991 367 928 18 0 3 35 200 71995 319 972 16 8 3 34 200 11999 309 118 15 8 4 35 200 12003 301 652 14 4 4 28 200 72007 335 623 14 5 4 31 200 32011 300 544 12 3 4 28 200 32015 293 653 11 6 4 27 200 12019 275 842 11 4 5 25 200 2Party strength over time EditCanton 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019Percentage of the total vote for Christian Democratic People s Party in Federal Elections 1971 2019 24 Switzerland 20 3 21 1 21 3 20 2 19 6 18 0 16 8 15 9 14 4 14 5 12 3 11 6 11 4Zurich 9 5 9 4 9 7 9 1 7 1 5 9 4 9 5 1 5 4 7 6 5 0 4 2 4 4Bern 5 3 5 3 2 5 2 1 2 4 2 6 1 8 2 4 2 3 4 7 2 1 1 8 1 9Luzern 48 8 50 1 50 4 49 6 47 0 48 6 37 3 33 8 29 5 30 2 27 1 23 9 25 5Uri a 18 6 26 8 39 2Schwyz 38 5 46 4 49 4 46 6 36 9 32 8 27 4 27 3 23 4 20 1 20 6 19 5 18 4Obwalden 67 0 97 1 95 7 91 0 51 7 95 3 94 2 66 4 32 5 36 7Nidwalden 97 2 97 6 49 5 97 2 96 9 97 7 32 1 35 8Glarus Zug 39 4 34 1 39 9 34 2 34 2 27 1 26 4 22 9 23 3 24 3 26 4 23 8Fribourg 41 5 46 9 39 9 37 9 37 7 36 8 36 0 33 7 25 4 24 8 20 3 22 7 17 8Solothurn 27 7 26 0 27 6 26 7 25 1 22 2 21 5 21 4 21 0 20 4 17 9 14 8 14 2Basel Stadt 11 2 12 1 13 9 9 9 10 0 10 4 9 7 8 6 6 6 7 4 6 5 6 4 4 6Basel Landschaft 13 3 13 3 11 5 10 8 12 3 11 6 11 7 12 0 10 0 11 4 8 2 9 1 8 5Schaffhausen 8 0 6 3 2 7 5 2 2 1Appenzell A Rh 14 1 14 5 16 7 9 5 10 6 Appenzell I Rh 96 1 98 3 97 2 95 6 91 8 98 7 85 4 73 5 69 2 84 6 76 1 76 3 61 3St Gallen 44 0 43 3 44 1 40 8 39 4 35 8 31 0 26 2 22 2 21 4 20 3 16 6 18 8Graubunden 37 3 35 9 35 5 33 3 28 5 25 6 26 9 25 6 23 7 20 3 16 6 16 8 16 3Aargau 20 0 20 6 22 5 21 5 18 9 14 5 14 2 16 3 15 6 13 5 10 6 8 6 9 9Thurgau 23 4 22 3 24 6 21 6 20 4 16 5 13 0 15 7 16 5 15 2 14 4 13 1 12 7Ticino 34 8 35 7 34 1 34 0 38 2 26 9 28 4 25 9 24 6 24 1 20 0 20 1 18 2Vaud 5 3 4 6 5 1 4 5 4 1 3 6 5 6 4 5 4 4 5 6 4 6 4 1 2 4Valais 61 5 59 7 58 8 57 5 58 7 54 3 54 8 51 4 47 9 44 9 39 9 39 8 34 8Neuchatel 3 3 3 5 3 6 4 2Geneve 13 8 14 7 14 0 12 3 14 6 14 5 13 4 14 1 11 8 9 7 9 8 12 1 7 7Jura b b 37 7 25 1 33 0 36 0 38 2 39 2 39 5 25 0 33 2 27 6 22 81 a A indicates that the party was not on the ballot in this canton 2 b Part of the Canton of Bern until 1979 Presidents Edit1986 1992 Eva Segmuller St Gallen 1992 1994 Carlo Schmid Sutter Appenzell Innerrhoden 1994 1997 Anton Cottier Fribourg 1997 2001 Adalbert Durrer Obwalden 2001 2004 Philipp Stahelin Thurgau 2004 2006 Doris Leuthard Aargau 2006 2016 Christophe Darbellay Valais 2016 2020 Gerhard Pfister ZugSecretaries General Edit1988 1992 Iwan Rickenbacher 1992 1997 Raymond Loretan 1997 2001 Hilmar Gernet 2001 2008 Reto Nause 2009 2012 Tim Frey 2012 2018 Beatrice Wertli 2018 2020 Gianna LuzioNotes and references Edit The Swiss Confederation A Brief Guide Federal Chancellery 2015 p 19 Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 Retrieved 14 December 2016 Nordsieck Wolfram 2019 Switzerland Parties and Elections in Europe Retrieved 9 November 2019 Altermatt Urs 2013 CVP Von der katholischen Milieupartei zur Partei der burgerlichen Mitte Die Parteien in Bewegung Nachbarschaft und Konflikte Verlag Neue Zurcher Zeitung pp 36 37 Burlacu Diana Toka Gabor 2014 Policy based Voting and the Type of Democracy Elections and Democracy Representation and Accountability Oxford University Press Budge Ian Keman Hans McDonald Michael D Pennings Paul 2012 Organizing Democratic Choice Party Representation Over Time Oxford University Press p 134 Damir Skenderovic 2009 The Radical Right in Switzerland Continuity and Change 1945 2000 Berghahn Books p 156 ISBN 978 1 84545 948 2 Retrieved 19 July 2013 Freedom House 1 December 2011 Freedom in the World 2011 The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers p 649 ISBN 978 1 4422 0996 1 Philip Manow Kees van Kersbergen 2009 Religion and the Western Welfare State The Theoretical Context Religion Class Coalitions and Welfare States Cambridge University Press p 21 ISBN 978 0 521 89791 4 Retrieved 2 August 2013 Bale Tim 2021 Riding the populist wave Europe s mainstream right in crisis Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge University Press p 34 ISBN 978 1 009 00686 6 OCLC 1256593260 Europe Elects EuropeElects 2 January 2021 Switzerland Yesterday CVP EPP and BDP merged Tweet Archived from the original on 2 January 2022 Retrieved 2 January 2022 via Twitter a b Die CVP soll neu Die Mitte heissen in German SRF 4 September 2020 Assemblee du PDC Le Centre peut atteindre 20 et se renforcer a l executif en 2027 Le Nouvelliste in French 5 September 2020 BDP will mit Statutenanderung Weg fur Fusion ebnen in German Nau ch 5 September 2020 Martin Landolt und Gerhard Pfister bereiten BDP CVP Fusion vor in German Nau ch 28 May 2020 CVP soll neu Die Mitte heissen in German Telebasel 4 September 2020 CVP schliesst sich mit BDP zur Die Mitte zusammen Swissinfo in German 28 November 2020 Retrieved 2 January 2022 BDP Delegierte sagen Ja zum Zusammenschluss mit der CVP Suedostschweiz in German 14 November 2020 Retrieved 2 January 2022 CVP und BDP sind ab 2021 Die Mitte Schweizer Bauer in German 29 November 2020 Retrieved 2 January 2022 Wientzek Olaf 1 December 2020 Historic day for Swiss Christian Democrats Merger and Farewell to the C Konrad Adenauer Foundation Retrieved 2 January 2022 Die Mitte CVP prasentiert neuen Namen und Logo Nau ch in German 4 September 2020 The data is based on research by Philipp Leimgruber University of Bern Dominik Hangartner Washington University and Lucas Leemann Columbia University as part of the University of Lausanne s Swiss Electoral Studies Selects http www2 unil ch selects permanent dead link as published in Comparing Candidates and Citizens in the Ideological Space Swiss Political Science Review 16 3 pp 499 531 33 The graphical representation of the data is based on a graphic published in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of 30 October 2010 p 13 Nationalrat 2007 1 Archived 3 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine Nationalratswahlen Kantonale Parteistarke Kanton 100 Report Swiss Federal Statistical Office 29 November 2019 Retrieved 27 August 2020 Further reading EditGees Thomas 2004 Michael Gehler Wolfram Kaiser eds Successful as a Go Between The Conservative People s Party in Switzerland Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 Routledge pp 33 46 ISBN 0 7146 5662 3 Rolli Alkemper Lukas 2004 Wolfram Kaiser Helmut Wohnout eds Catholics between Emancipation and Integration The Conservative People s Party in Switzerland Political Catholicism in Europe 1918 45 Routledge pp 53 64 ISBN 0 7146 5650 X External links EditOfficial website Christian Democratic People s Party of Switzerland in History of Social Security in Switzerland Portals Politics Switzerland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Christian Democratic People 27s Party of Switzerland amp oldid 1132361239, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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