Swiss election and referendum maps

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A simple map of the largest party result in each canton in the 2007 National Council election.



Blue = FDP/PLR
Green = SVP/UDC
Orange = CVP/PDC
Red = SPS/PSS

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2002 referendum on UN membership:

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1992 referendum on ratification of the EEA agreement:

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Thanks. I got the map template from Wikimedia Commons; and there are a few parts that look weird (like the area above Solothurn and next to Basel-Landschaft - that area actually consists of both Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn territory. I've been coloring it in as part of Basel-Landschaft, since it seems to have more territory there). Perhaps I should switch to a different, more precise map in the future.

As for the patterns, ZuWo could probably explain them better than I could. The clearest pattern to me is that the French-speaking Swiss are more internationalist than the German-speaking and Italian-speaking Swiss.

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Here's a link to the map template I've been using and modifying; originally uploaded by Ojw at en.wikipedia [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], obtained through Wikimedia Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-Switzerland.png

Anyway, here's a map of the 2005 referendum on joining the Schengen Area. Again, the French cantons are most in favor.

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

You're right; sorry about that. I have corrected it.

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Here's a map of the 2011 gun control referendum by district.

I credit Wikipedia user Tschubby for creating the blank map I used to make this, which can be found here.



Edit: I accidentally colored Gersau green. It's fixed now.

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@ Thomas: Thank you for the map. And thank you for doing a district level map that illustrates quite nicely the urban/rural and the language divide.

I'm glad you liked it! I got the information needed to make the map from wahlatlas.info. They had a district-level map of the Yes vote only. I decided to make one that showed clearly which districts voted Yes and which voted No.

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Man, my ancestral home district voted for the gun control referendum.

Look on the bright side: At least it didn't help the referendum pass.