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Switzerland 2023 National Council Election Results by Canton, Party, and Candidate

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Swiss Federal Statistical Office · definitive archived result

Switzerland's complete 2023 National Council result layer.

Definitive official Switzerland 2023 National Council election results: national turnout, all 26 cantons, 15 national party families, 638 lists, 5,929 candidate records, and all 200 elected markers from the Federal Statistical Office.

2,604,984ballots deposited

46.66%turnout

200National Council seats

5,929candidate records

Final national accounting

2,554,482 valid ballots.

5,583,221 eligible voters, 9,523 blank ballots, and 40,979 invalid ballots are preserved from the source. Every ballot class closes to the deposited-ballot total.

Polling date22October 2023

Official national party layer

All 15 published party families and all 200 seats.

The FSO uses “fictitious voters” to make party strength comparable across cantons under cumulative voting and panachage. These equivalent-voter totals are not relabeled as ordinary party ballots.

Party family	Equivalent voters	Party strength	Seats
SVP619 candidates · 71 lists	713,470.88	27.93%	62
SP703 candidates · 74 lists	466,713.741	18.27%	41
FDP651 candidates · 79 lists	364,052.69	14.25%	28
Centre1,099 candidates · 108 lists	359,075.164	14.06%	29
GREENS643 candidates · 68 lists	249,891.524	9.78%	23
GLP839 candidates · 86 lists	192,944.068	7.55%	10
Others539 candidates · 65 lists	72,608.696	2.84%	0
EVP366 candidates · 29 lists	49,828.356	1.95%	2
EDU197 candidates · 16 lists	31,512.805	1.23%	2
PdA/Sol.109 candidates · 8 lists	18,434.959	0.72%	0
Lega40 candidates · 5 lists	14,159.855	0.55%	1
MCR24 candidates · 3 lists	13,018.905	0.51%	2
FGA36 candidates · 1 lists	4,342.936	0.17%	0
CSP7 candidates · 1 lists	2,397.456	0.09%	0
SD37 candidates · 4 lists	2,029.966	0.08%	0

All 26 cantons

Open turnout, lists, candidates, and elected markers for any canton.

All 200 official elected markers

Historical result records, not current-tenure claims.

The FSO source marks exactly 200 people elected in this election. Later membership changes remain outside this historical adapter.

Showing 1–25 of 200 elected result records. Every record remains available through the result pages below.

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Definitive election result—not a current parliament roster.

These are historical 2023 election-result records, not claims about current National Council membership or present tenure.
Party equivalent-voter totals and party strength are official FSO measures; raw list and candidate marks are not relabeled as ordinary one-person-one-vote party ballots.
The 5,929 candidate pages omit source birth dates, residence, profession, and gender fields; Election.org publishes only election identity, party or list, votes, status, and elected marker needed for the public result.
Council of States results, later membership changes, cantonal elections, political finance, and native-language interfaces remain outside this adapter.

Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office definitive 2023 federal-election open data. All four source CSVs are fingerprinted in the public API.