Swiss election and referendum maps

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2002 referendum on UN membership:

You should correct your map because Zug voted yes...

I think the 2 most interesting votes of the last decades to analyse are this one on the UNO in 2002 and another one on the raise of the VAT in september 2009. Both divide the cantons in two almost equal parts.

About the religion, I feel that here in the French part, few people care about being catholic or reformed. And in these cantons there are few difference between the vote of catholics cantons and the reformed one : Jura votes about the same than Neuchâtel, Fribourg votes about the same as Vaud... Perhaps Fribourg is slightly more conservative than Vaud but it is much more related to the German minority in this canton than to the religion...

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I think both CVP and FDP became less isolationists since the last decades and this explains the raise of the SVP

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I'm native from Valais, and there I know several people that say that they agree with SVP's on nationalist and security topics, but still stay faithful to CVP for economic issues and other topics. Switzerland become so prosperous under economical policies based on the consensus mainstream CVP-FDP. We never had big economical crisis that challenged this consensus (unlike UK in the 70s).

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I think it's because between 1850 and 1950 CVP was socially too conservative for these people. For example, in village where I was born, several people that voted FDP in the past were those who "didn't go to the mass".

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Yes, only SVP voters vote for SVP politicians. They are generally rejected by voters of the others parties, even if they share a part of their opinion.

To illustrate the fact that supporting SVP views on security and isolationism doesn't mean supporting it on others topics, take the SVP-inspirated healthcare reform of 2008, voted by the parliament, heavily rejected by the voters :

http://www.predikon.ch/fr/votation/article-constitutionnel-du-21-12-2007-qualite-et-efficacite-economique-dans-lassurance-maladie

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Before clicking on the link below, notice that the diagram has nothing to do with the political matrix : horizontal axis means Left/Right BUT curiously political left is on the right and political right is on the left. Vertical axis means pro-ecology (up) or agains (bottom).

Notice the homogeneity of French Switzerland on the left/right axis : lefty Geneva vote the same as her wealthy southern suburbs, while their politicians keep on fighting in parliament (but like in France, politics in Geneva is at first a comedy).

Notice also big differences between neighbouring communes : there is a huge difference between the votes of French-speaking Rougemont and German-speaking Saanen, while they are both resorts of the same ski area.

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