2007 Zürich cantonal elections

2007 election in Switzerland 2007 Zürich cantonal elections Zürich legislative no 2003 Zürich cantonal elections 2003 15 April 2007 2011 Zürich cantonal elections 2011 All 7 seats in the Executive Council of ZürichAll 180 seats in the Cantonal Council of Zürich (91 seats needed for a majority) yes parliamentary Executive Council Elected   Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Ursula Gut, 86.29% Thomas Heiniger, 76.07% Social Democratic Party of Switzerland Markus Notter, 73.01% Regine Aeppli, 69.19% Swiss People's Party Markus Kägi, 64.26% Rita Fuhrer, 64.04% Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Hans Hollenstein, 77.90% yes Cantonal Council yes Swiss People's Party 61 56 30.46% Social Democratic Party of Switzerland 53 36 19.47% Free Democratic Party of Switzerland 29 29 15.98% Green Party of Switzerland 14 19 10.44% Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland 12 13 7.25% Green Liberal Party of Switzerland new 10 5.75% Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland 9 10 5.23% Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland 1 5 2.82% Alternative List new 2 1.26% The 2007 Zürich cantonal elections were held on 15 April 2007, to elect the seven members of the cantonal Executive Council and the 180 members of the Cantonal Council. The FDP-SVP alliance gained a majority in the Executive Council by winning four seats. In the Cantonal Council, the SVP retained a plurality but the SVP-FDP alliance lost their overall majority, resulting in a more fragmented council. Electoral system Executive Council The Executive Council contains 7 members elected using a two-round majoritarian system. In the first round, electors have up to seven votes and the 7 most-voted candidates reaching an overall majority (>50%) are elected. If seats remain to be filled, a runoff is held where electors have as many votes as seats remaining, and the candidates with the most votes (simple plurality) are elected. Cantonal Council The Cantonal Council is elected using open-list proportional representation, with canton-wide apportionment of seats and allocation into 18 constituencies (biproportional apportionment). In each constituency, voters have as many votes as there are seats to fill (panachage is permitted); these votes each count both for the candidate and for the list they stand in. These votes counts are divided by the seats count to give fictional electors counts which can be summed up fairly throughout the canton. Using the fictional electors counts, each party above the threshold (reaching 5% in at least one constituency) is apportioned seats canton-wide, which are then shared among their constituency lists. In each constituency list, the seats are attributed to the candidates reaching the most votes. This method was new compared to the simple allocation per constituency used in the last election; it was expected to help the smaller parties.Hohl Sabine 2007-04-15 Kantonsratswahlen Zürich 2007 https://anneepolitique.swiss/dossiers/133-kantonale-wahlen-zurich 2022-09-24 anneepolitique.ch Candidates Executive Council The FDP and SVP ran together as the "4 wins" ticket, hoping to regain a majority on the Executive Council after having lost it to Hans Hollenstein in 2005. The FDP fielded incumbent councillor Ursula Gut (elected in a by-election the year before to replace retiring councillor Dorothé Fierz) as well as Thomas Heiniger (as a replacement for Rüdi Jecker who stood down) while the SVP ran incumbent councillors Markus Kägi and Rita Fuhrer. The CVP ran without a formal alliance with the FDP and SVP but benefited from informal support. Incumbent christian-democratic councillor Hans Hollenstein ran for re-election as the party's sole candidate. Both social-democratic incumbent councillors, Markus Notter and Regine Aeppli, ran for re-election. Incumbent councillor Verena Diener had been elected in 2003 as a Green and had switched the next year to the Green Liberal Party; she did not run for re-election, opting to join federal politics by contesting the election to the Council of States. The Green-Liberals ran party leader and national councillor Martin Bäumle while the Greens fielded Illnau-Effretikon mayor Martin Graf.Hohl Sabine 2007-04-15 Regierungsratswahlen Zürich 2007 https://anneepolitique.swiss/dossiers/133-kantonale-wahlen-zurich 2022-09-22 anneepolitique.ch Cantonal Council The table below lists contesting parties represented in the Cantonal Council before the election. Name Ideology 2003 result Votes (%) Seats Swiss People's Party SVP Swiss People's PartySchweizerische Volkspartei National conservatismRight-wing populism 30.2% 61 180 Swiss People's Party Social Democratic Party of Switzerland SP Social Democratic PartySozialdemokratische Partei Social democracyDemocratic socialism 26.2% 53 180 Social Democratic Party of Switzerland Free Democratic Party of Switzerland FDP Free Democratic PartyFreisinnig-Demokratische Partei LiberalismConservative liberalism 15.9% 28 180 Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Green Party of SwitzerlandGPSGreen PartyGrüne ParteiGreen politicsProgressivism 7.9%14 180 Green Party of Switzerland Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland CVP Christian Democratic People's PartyChristlichdemokratische Volkspartei Christian democracySocial conservatism 6.4% 13 180 Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland EVP Evangelical People's PartyEvangelische Volkspartei Christian democracySocial conservatism 5.1% 9 180 Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland EDU Federal Democratic UnionEidgenössisch-Demokratische Union National conservatism 2.1% 1 180 Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland Swiss Democrats SD Swiss DemocratsSchweizer Demokraten Nationalism 1.4% 1 180 Swiss Democrats Alternative List AL Alternative ListAlternative Liste Socialism 0.9% 1 180 Alternative List Green Liberal Party of Switzerland GLP Green Liberal PartyGrünliberale Partei Green liberalismSocial liberalism Did not exist Results Executive Council Note: percentages here are calculated based on the number of valid votes (excluding blank and invalid votes) so that the absolute majority is at exactly 50%, but may result in candidates reaching over 100% of the valid votes. +Results of the 2007 Zürich Executive Council election Candidate Party Votes % Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Ursula Gut (Inc. Incumbent) FDP 151730 175843 2 Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Hans Hollenstein (Inc. Incumbent) CVP 136977 175843 2 Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Thomas Heiniger FDP 133768 175843 2 Social Democratic Party of Switzerland Markus Notter (Inc. Incumbent) SP 128384 175843 2 Social Democratic Party of Switzerland Regine Aeppli (Inc. Incumbent) SP 121671 175843 2 Swiss People's Party Markus Kägi SVP 112995 175843 2 Swiss People's Party Rita Fuhrer (Inc. Incumbent) SVP 112607 175843 2 Green Party of Switzerland Martin Graf Grüne 97542 175843 2 Green Liberal Party of Switzerland Martin Bäumle glp 90851 175843 2 Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland Johannes Zollinger EVP 46686 175843 2 Swiss Democrats Markus Alder SD 8535 175843 2 Scattered votes 89156 175843 2 Total 1230902 1813539 2 Blank votes 571362 1813539 2 Invalid votes 11275 1813539 2 Total votes 7× Total ballots – Registered voters/Turnout 268742 820414 2 Source: Official JournalErneuerungswahl der Mitglieder des Regierungsrates, Ergebnisse https://www.wahlen.zh.ch/07/rr/pdf/resultate.pdf 2022-10-18 Official Journal of the Canton of Zürich 16 448 2007-04-20 German The SVP and FDP's "4 wins" ticket succeeded with all four candidates elected and re-gained their seat lost two years earlier; both the FDP candidates polled significantly higher than the SVP ones. CVP candidate Hans Hollenstein also retained his seat in second place, along with both SP councillors. Green candidate Martin Graf and Green-Liberal candidate Martin Bäumle both failed despite reaching overall majorities.Wieder klar bürgerliche Regierung im Kanton Zürich https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/wieder-klar-buergerliche-regierung-im-kanton-zuerich/5835564 swissinfo.ch 2007-04-15 German Results by district +Vote share of each candidate by district District AeppliSP AlderSD BäumleGLP FuhrerSVP GrafGPS GutFDP Hein. HeinigerFDP Holl. HollensteinCVP KägiSVP NotterSP Zoll. ZollingerEVP Scattered Affoltern 67.0 2.7 51.1 72.6 51.2 95.3 84.7 68.8 69.8 71.0 20.4 45.4 Andelfingen 53.4 2.5 34.7 90.7 48.9 103.2 90.7 64.5 84.3 59.5 20.3 47.2 Bülach 62.1 4.2 53.0 66.9 49.6 85.9 78.0 77.3 71.3 65.8 28.5 57.3 Dielsdorf 61.8 4.4 49.9 69.6 46.9 89.3 80.9 75.0 75.1 63.9 26.3 57.0 Dietikon 64.7 4.5 36.7 76.6 41.3 93.7 83.6 77.3 75.7 72.3 20.7 53.0 Hinwil 58.2 3.7 49.4 76.2 48.2 92.4 82.8 73.8 73.2 62.4 32.7 46.8 Horgen 63.8 2.1 47.6 67.2 47.3 85.8 79.7 78.5 65.6 67.0 37.9 57.7 Meilen 58.3 3.3 46.0 76.0 40.0 105.1 92.7 71.1 77.6 60.5 22.5 46.9 Pfäffikon 61.7 8.5 49.6 67.4 62.187.9 75.0 79.8 67.0 66.6 34.6 39.7 Uster 66.0 2.8 68.6 61.4 48.888.3 77.1 73.8 62.8 68.1 26.7 55.7 Winterthur 68.1 2.1 44.2 61.5 64.2 79.2 68.592.8 60.7 75.0 27.1 56.5 Zürich 88.3 9.1 58.6 47.9 70.8 75.2 64.3 78.7 48.391.1 22.3 45.3Total 69.2 4.9 51.7 64.0 55.5 86.3 76.1 77.9 64.3 73.0 26.5 50.7 Cantonal Council Results of the 2007 Zürich Cantonal Council election #f8f9fa 2 Alternative List 19 Green Party of Switzerland 36 Social Democratic Party of Switzerland 10 Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland 10 Green Liberal Party of Switzerland 29 Free Democratic Party of Switzerland 13 Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland 56 Swiss People's Party 5 Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland Swiss People's Party 85056 +0.26 56 −5 Social Democratic Party 54363 −6.68 36 −17 Free Democratic Party 44622 +0.09 29 ±0 Green Party 29155 +2.60 19 +5 Christian Democratic People's Party 20235 +0.89 13 +1 Green Liberal Party 16071 New 10 New Evangelical People's Party 14608 +0.12 10 +1 Federal Democratic Union 7865 +0.71 5 +4 Swiss Democrats 3702 −0.02 0 −1 Alternative List/PdA 3532 +0.05 2 +2 Ueli Hanf list 54 New 0 New Official JournalErneuerungswahl der Mitglieder des Kantonsrates für die Amtsdauer 2007–2011 vom 15. April 2007, Ergebnisse, Publikation http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/07/kr/amtliches/pdf/gesamtergebnisse.pdf 2022-10-18 Official Journal of the Canton of Zürich 16 452 2007-04-20 German The Swiss People's Party won a plurality but lost five seats, resulting in the SVP-FDP alliance losing their narrow majority in the Council. The social democrats suffered a loss of 17 seats, their losses were mainly attributed to voters switching to the greens (who gained five seats) and green-liberals (who entered the Council with ten seats). The CVP and EVP saw similar results to four years earlier, while the EDU gained four seats from the new apportionment rule. The Alternative List regained representation while the Swiss Democrats failed to clear the threshold of 5% in any of the constituencies. The resulting Council was seen as more unpredictable since it did not have any expected coalition anymore. The SP's large losses were seen as the main change in this elections, though their outgoing 53 seats had been their highest seat count since 1955, meaning this election was only their worst result since 1987. The Greens and Green-liberals were seen as the main gains of this election, together now representing a sixth of the Council. Results by constituency +Number of seats and share of votes for each party by constituency Constituency SVP SP FDP GPS CVP GLP EVP EDU AL Totalseats SVP SP FDP GPS CVP GLP EVP EDU SD AL UH I Zürich City 1 & 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 19.9 27.1 21.3 13.2 6.7 5.6 1.7 1.0 1.4 2.1 – II Zürich City 3 & 9 3 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 12 24.8 28.6 8.1 12.9 8.5 5.4 4.2 1.0 3.0 3.3 0.3 III Zürich City 4 & 5 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 14.9 32.9 6.7 20.8 4.4 7.6 1.1 0.4 1.8 9.3 – IV Zürich City 6 & 10 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 9 19.5 29.2 14.5 15.4 6.4 6.5 3.6 0.8 1.3 2.8 – V Zürich City 7 & 8 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 7 15.7 22.3 24.0 17.3 6.5 7.3 3.4 0.6 0.9 2.0 – VI Zürich City 11 & 12 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 12 29.7 26.6 10.0 10.1 8.3 4.5 4.1 1.6 3.8 1.3 – VII Dietikon 4 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 11 38.0 17.7 16.7 6.7 11.0 2.9 4.2 1.3 1.0 0.7 – XIII Affoltern 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 31.2 18.5 19.4 7.3 5.5 6.1 7.7 3.4 0.4 0.5 – IX Horgen 4 2 4 1 2 1 1 0 0 15 29.0 17.1 21.3 10.1 8.9 4.9 5.5 1.9 0.6 0.6 – X Meilen 4 2 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 13 31.4 15.8 26.6 6.3 6.7 6.2 3.6 2.8 0.5 0.3 – XI Hinwil 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 11 33.4 13.6 12.2 10.2 8.6 5.0 7.1 7.5 1.8 0.6 – XII Uster 5 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 16 32.5 17.3 14.8 6.7 6.7 12.1 4.3 3.2 1.7 0.6 – XIII Pfäffikon 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 7 35.5 14.1 12.5 13.2 5.4 3.8 9.3 4.5 1.3 0.3 – XIV Winterthur City 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 13 24.1 22.1 13.6 13.0 8.9 5.0 6.9 2.7 1.3 2.3 – XV Winterthur Land 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 7 38.9 14.0 13.7 8.8 6.1 3.7 9.9 3.8 0.7 0.4 – XVI Andelfingen 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 42.3 13.2 16.9 10.3 3.0 3.1 5.0 4.3 0.4 1.5 – XVII Bülach 6 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 17 36.4 17.6 14.3 8.7 6.5 5.3 6.1 3.5 1.1 0.4 – XVIII Dielsdorf 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 10 43.0 16.1 11.8 9.2 6.3 5.1 3.5 3.7 1.0 0.3 – Total 56 36 29 19 1 103 10 5 2 180 30.5 19.5 16.0 10.4 7.3 5.8 5.2 2.8 1.3 1.3 0.0 References Category:2007 elections in Switzerland Category:Cantonal elections in Zürich