2008 Basel-Stadt Grand Council election

The Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election was held on 14 September 2008. It was the first election under the new constitution and a therefore smaller Grand Council of only 100 representatives instead of 130. Because of that all existing parties lost ground, particularly the Social Democratic Party. The Swiss People's Party (SVP) and the Green Party both did relatively well. The Green Liberal Party entered the Grand Council with 5 representatives. Results Summary of the 14 September 2008 Basel-Stadt Grand Council election results |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" colspan=2 |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=150px |Ideology ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote %1 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ± |- | width=5px style="background-color: Social Democratic Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:left;" | Social democracy | style="text-align:right;" | 29.7 | style="text-align:right;" | −3.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 32 | style="text-align:right;" | −14 |- | style="background-color: Swiss People's Party" | | style="text-align:left;" | Swiss People's Party | style="text-align:left;" | National conservatism | style="text-align:right;" | 13.7 | style="text-align:right;" | +1.7 | style="text-align:right;" | 14 | style="text-align:right;" | −1 |- | style="background-color: Green Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Green Party | style="text-align:left;" | Green politics | style="text-align:right;" | 13.8 | style="text-align:right;" | +2.3 | style="text-align:right;" | 13 | style="text-align:right;" | −3 |- | style="background-color: Free Democratic Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:left;" | Classical liberalism | style="text-align:right;" | 9.9 | style="text-align:right;" | −1.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 11 | style="text-align:right;" | −6 |- | style="background-color: Liberal Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Liberal Party | style="text-align:left;" | Classical liberalism | style="text-align:right;" | 8.4 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | −3 |- | style="background-color: Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic People's Party | style="text-align:left;" | Christian democracy | style="text-align:right;" | 9.3 | style="text-align:right;" | +1.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;" | −3 |- | style="background-color: Green Liberal Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Green Liberal Party | style="text-align:left;" | Green liberalism | style="text-align:right;" | 5.1 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |- | style="background-color: Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Evangelical People's Party | style="text-align:left;" | Christian democracy | style="text-align:right;" | 4.4 | style="text-align:right;" | −0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;" | −2 |- | | style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Social Party | style="text-align:left;" | Social democracy | style="text-align:right;" | 3.1 | style="text-align:right;" | −1.5 | style="text-align:right;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;" | −3 |- | | style="text-align:left;" | Active Bettingen | style="text-align:left;" | Liberalism | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | | style="text-align:left;" | Swiss Democrats—Federal Democratic Union | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 2.4 | style="text-align:right;" | −0.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | | style="text-align:left;" | Homosexual List | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=3| Total | style="text-align:right;" | 100.00 | style="text-align:right;" | – | 100 | style="text-align:right;" | −30 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | 1 Excludes Bettingen, which was contested only by Active Bettingen. |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Canton of Basel-Stadt |} Category:Grand Council of Basel-Stadt elections Category:2008 elections in Switzerland