Swiss Elections & Politics (Next election 2019)

[DavidB.]

  Time for my obligatory immigration related election question.  Have the parties come up with very pronounced stances about taking any migrants?  Not being in the EU gives the Swiss some cover to avoid the issue perhaps?  

I believe, but ZuWo will undoubtedly be more knowledgeable on this, that there is still talk on the "restricting mass immigration" referendum, to which a majority agreed. The question is then to what extent this should be implemented if it clashes with Switzerland's alleged interests as to relations with the EU, international organizations etc. Not sure if this is connected to the issue of the migrant crisis though.

For the fans: here is the Swiss version of the "Voting Compass", called SmartVote: https://www.smartvote.ch/15_ch_nr/election/index. Available in English.

The results were not entirely clear. I don't understand why there were more lists from the same party. My result when I picked the highest-ranking list of any party in Bern:

SVP 83.1%
Schweizer Demokraten 62.7%
FDP 54.2%
BDP 44.5%
Green Liberals 29.4%
Pirates 24.9%
SP 21.2%
Green 9.3%

I would vote for SVP/UDC.

[DavidB.]

Bump! This election will take place in a few days. Does any of the Swiss posters (ZuWo?) know what's going on here?

[DavidB.]

It's not often I say this about any election, but who cares? The Swiss have an interesting system, but really make it boring from an electoral observers POV. Hmph.

You are entirely right Theoretically I like the Swiss political system very much, but from an observer's perspective Dutch volatility, for instance, is much more interesting Still, the tendency to see Switzerland as somewhat of a "black spot" on the European map just because of its peculiarities seems wrong and I'm genuinely interested in getting to know more about Swiss electoral patterns, for which this election seems to be a good opportunity.

[DavidB.]

Switzerland continues to be awesome

An overview of the national and cantonal results: http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/uebersicht-der-nationalen-resultate-ld.2561

[DavidB.]

I haven't found an exit poll yet. Do you have one?

[DavidB.]

The first (and only) federal exit poll will be released by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (tv channel SRF 1) at 7pm.

Ah, okay, thanks for clearing that up. Tender spoke about exit polls indicating a rightward shift, that's why I asked.

[DavidB.]

A friend of mine was in Bern last week (#feelthebern) and took this picture:

[DavidB.]

Why did people vote against the deportation initiative? Are they tired of the SVP pushing this issue?

[DavidB.]

Many thanks, ZuWo! (and the others)

[DavidB.]

And good news , the Christian Democrats attempt to sneakily ban gay marriage narrowly fails!

That's great indeed.

[DavidB.]

i LOVE this country!

[DavidB.]

What's the first referendum exactly about?

[DavidB.]

The UDC are up to their old tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYg6sWD8B4