National Council
Switzerland elections · 1979-10-21 · 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: 48.05%
| Party / candidate | Votes | Vote share | Seats | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Democratic Party | — | 24.01% | 51 | — |
| Social Democratic Party | — | 24.44% | 51 | — |
| Swiss People's Party | — | 11.6% | 23 | — |
| Liberal Party | — | 2.8% | 8 | — |
| Evangelical People's Party | — | 2.22% | 3 | — |
| Swiss Party of Labour | — | 2.08% | 3 | — |
| Feminist and Green Alternative Groups | — | 0.18% | 0 | — |
| Green Party | — | 0.63% | 1 | — |
| Swiss Democrats | — | 1.32% | 2 | — |
| Federal Democratic Union | — | 0.25% | 0 | — |
| Christian Democratic People's Party | — | 21.29% | 44 | — |
| Alliance of Independents | — | 4.07% | 8 | — |
| Progressive Organisations of Switzerland | — | 1.7% | 2 | — |
| Republican Movement | — | 0.63% | 1 | — |
| Autonomous Socialist Party | — | 0.44% | 1 | — |
| Jurassian separatists | — | 0.46% | 1 | — |
| Other lists | — | 1.88% | 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. Modern percentages and every party’s mandates are independently checked against the FSO PX-Web final national series.
Sources & further reading
Federal Statistical Office: final normalised party strength
Federal Statistical Office: elected mandates