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National Council

Switzerland elections · 1931-10-25 · held

Final reported chamber allocation; historical membership and ballot scope are documented in the notes.

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Results: final · complete coverage · Normalised party strength / voter equivalents; rounded proxy counts are not entered as ballots

Turnout: 78.83%

National Council — recorded results
Party / candidateVotesVote shareSeatsElectoral votes
Social Democratic Party—28.72%49—
Free Democratic Party—26.94%52—
Conservative People's Party—21.38%44—
Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents—15.27%30—
Liberal Democratic Party—2.85%6—
Communist Party—1.48%2—
Social-Political Group—1.24%2—
Evangelical People's Party—0.98%1—
Communist Party Opposition / Other parties—1.14%1—

Party and group labels reflect the referenced election-era table. Display colours are editorial; no legal continuity or ideology is inferred. Before 1919 majority voting and multiple ballots/selections prevent treating historical aggregate candidate figures as one comparable national popular denominator. From 1919, quoted national party strength is based on canton-size-normalised voter equivalents rather than summed candidate/list vote marks. Rounded voter-equivalent counts are deliberately not entered as exact ballot counts. Seats use this election’s historical capacity, not today’s 200.

Sources & further reading

Election results and historical bibliography

Parliament: historical national polling dates