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In recent years, Switzerland has seen a gradual shift in the party landscape. The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), traditionally the junior partner in the four-party coalition government , more than doubled its voting share from 11.0% in 1987 to 22.5% in 1999, rising to 28.9% in 2007, thus overtaking its three coalition partners.
This is a list of political parties in Switzerland. Switzerland has a multi-party system. Since 1959, the four largest parties have formed a coalition government, according to a Zauberformel or "magic formula". This arithmetic formula divides the seven cabinet seats among representatives of the four largest parties.
Switzerland has a multi-party system with numerous parties. A highly unique characteristic of Switzerland is that all executives , from the federal level to even the smallest town at the municipal level, are led by a collective body of individuals (versus a single President or Prime Minister as in other countries).
CHVote, from Geneva, is in use in cantons Vaud, Bern, Lucerne, Basel City, St Gallen and Aargau. The system is open-source software [17] licensed under the AGPL. But in 2018, Geneva decided to start to phase it out for cost reasons. [18] The other system is sVote from Swiss Post, proprietary but disclosed software developed by Scytl. [19]
The Swiss People's Party (German: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; Romansh: Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (French: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; Italian: Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative [13] [14] and right-wing populist [15] political party in Switzerland.
Wikipedia categories named after political parties in Switzerland (11 C) Pages in category "Political parties in Switzerland" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Switzerland had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 3.53/10, ranking it 150th globally out of 172 countries. [83] Switzerland ranked 9th in the Environmental Performance Index for 2024. [84] It scored well in parameters including air pollution, sanitation and drinking water, waste management, and climate change mitigation. [85]
This category focuses on political issues and the quest for political office in Switzerland. For articles about the work of national and local governments in Switzerland see category:Government of Switzerland.