2016 Basel-Stadt Grand Council election

2016 Grand Council election Basel-Stadt parliamentary no 2012 Grand Council election 2012 23 October 2016 2020 Grand Council election 2020 All 100 seats in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt (51 seats needed for a majority) Brigitte Hollinger Social Democratic Party of Switzerland 33 seats, 30.7% 33 34 1 32.5% 1.8pp Sebastian Frehner Swiss People's Party 15 seats, 15% 15 15 14.3% 0.7pp Patricia von Falkenstein Liberal Party of Switzerland 10 seats, 9.6% 10 14 4 13.8% 4.2pp Mück / Zürcher (BastA!), Ackermann / Friedl (Greens) Green Party of Switzerland 13 seats, 11.8% 13 14 1 13.4% 1.6pp Luca Urgese FDP.The Liberals 12 seats, 11.1% 12 10 2 9.2% 1.9pp Andrea Strahm Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland 8 seats, 7.3% 8 7 1 5.9% 1.4pp Katja Christ Green Liberal Party of Switzerland 5 seats, 5.0% 5 4 1 4.3% 0.7pp Beatrice Mahler Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland 1, 1.4% 1 1 1.4% Gabriella Ess Dahinden Active Bettingen 1, 0.7% 1 1 0.7% Staatskanzlei 2016 Elections to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt were held on 23 October 2016. The big winners were the Liberal Party of Basel-Stadt, who increased their popular vote from 9.6% in 2012 to 13.8% and gaining four additional seats. Both centre-left parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party also gained ground and won one additional seat each. The losers of the elections were the centrist Christian Democratic People's Party, which lost one seat, the Green Liberal Party who lost one seat and the FDP who lost two seats; the right-wing anti-immigration party "Volksaktion" lost both of their seats. Opinion polls DateInstitutionSPSSVPGPSFDPLDPCVPGLPEVPOtherLead23 October 2016Grand council election, 201632.5%14.3%13.4%9.2%13.8%5.9%4.3%1.4%5.2%18.2%14 October 2016Tageswoche/bzBasel https://web.archive.org/web/20161025045218/http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2016_42/basel/732062/ 2016-10-25 30.4% 17.4% 10.6% 10.4% 12.8% 6.5% 4.5% 3.9% 3.5% 13.0%9 September 2016Tageswoche/bzBasel https://web.archive.org/web/20161025045016/http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2016_37/basel/729125/die-sp-verliert-die-svp-gewinnt-im-grossen-rat.htm 2016-10-25 30.3% 16.9% 10.3% 11.5% 12.8% 6.9% 3.8% 3.9% 3.6% 13.4%28 October 2012Grand council election, 201230.7% 15% 11.8% 11.1% 9.6% 7.3% 5.0% 4.2% 5.3%http://www.tageswoche.ch/wahlen2016/ Wahlen in Basel 2016 Felix Michel, Stefan Kempf 26 February 2017 25 October 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161025110400/http://www.tageswoche.ch/wahlen2016/ dead15.7% References 2016 Category:2016 in Switzerland Category:2016 elections in Switzerland Category:October 2016 in Switzerland