2003 Zürich cantonal elections

September 2022 2003 Zürich cantonal election Zürich no 1999 6 April 2003 2007 All 180 seats in the Cantonal Council of Zürich (91 seats needed for a majority) yes Swiss People's Party 60 61 30.24% Social Democratic Party of Switzerland 43 53 26.17% Free Democratic Party of Switzerland 35 29 15.91% Green Party of Switzerland 11 14 7.86% Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland 13 12 6.37% Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland 9 9 5.12% Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland 1 1 2.11% Swiss Democrats 2 1 1.35% The 2003 Zürich cantonal elections were held on 6 April 2003, to elect the seven members of the cantonal Executive Council) and the 180 members of the Cantonal Council. Background In 1999, the bourgeois parties alliance of FDP, CVP, and SVP won five of the seven executive councillors, with the left parties (SP and Greens) won the remaining two. In this election, the SP hoped to gain a second seat; the SVP, bolstered by their national momentum, left the alliance with the FDP and CVP to run alone.Clivaz Romain etal Dossier: Kantonale Wahlen - Zürich https://anneepolitique.swiss/dossiers/133-dossier-kantonale-wahlen-zurich#sequence_group-133 anneepolitique.swiss 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 was elected using open-list proportional representation in 18 multi-member constituencies with no threshold. 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. Seats are first apportioned to the apparentments (groups of lists) then to the lists directly (minimizing vote splitting in the smaller constituencies); in each list the seats are attributed to the candidates reaching the most votes. Results Executive Council +Results of the 2003 Zürich Executive Council election Candidate Party Votes % Markus Notter SP 147204 161673 2 Christian Huber SVP 131071 161673 2 Rita Fuhrer SVP 129987 161673 2 Verena Diener Grüne 124255 161673 2 Regine Aeppli SP 119567 161673 2 Dorothé Fierz FDP 107566 161673 2 Rüdi Jeker FDP 89828 161673 2 Hans Hollenstein CVP 86959 161673 2 Hans Rutschmann SVP 86617 161673 2 Gerhard Fischer EVP 40294 161673 2 Markus Bischoff AL 14593 161673 2 Rolf Boder SD 6358 161673 2 Marian Ignacy Danowski Ind. 161 161673 2 Scattered votes 47249 161584 2 Total 1131709 1776824 2 Blank votes 633372 1776824 2 Invalid votes 12382 1776824 2 Total votes 7× Total ballots – Registered voters/Turnout 262320 793155 2 Source: wahlen.zh.chRegierungsratswahlen Kanton Zürich provisorisches Endresultat http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/regierungsrat/_bezirke/index.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060713205340/http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/regierungsrat/_bezirke/index.htm 2006-07-13 2022-09-16 wahlen.zh.ch German In the Executive Council, the SP fielded both incumbent councillor Markus Notter and former cantonal councillor and current national councillor Regine Aeppli, hoping to gain a seat from any other party except incumbent green federal councillor Verena Diener running for re-election.2002-09-28 In den Startlöchern für die Wahlen 2003 Neue Zürcher Zeitung https://www.nzz.ch/kommentar8FBGU-ld.226990 2022-09-16 They would gain the seat from the CVP, where Winterthur executive city councillor Hans Hollenstein failed to hold Ernst Buschor's seat; FDP councillor Rüdi Jecker narrowly saved his seat over Hollenstein and the third SVP candidate Hans Rutschmann by only three thousand votes.Regierungsratsmitglieder ab 1831 https://www.nzz.ch/kommentar8FBGU-ld.226990 2022-09-16 zh.ch Women represented a majority of the council for the first time. Cantonal Council Results of the 2003 Zürich Cantonal Council election #f8f9fa 0 Alternative List 14 Green Party of Switzerland 53 Social Democratic Party of Switzerland 9 Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland 29 Free Democratic Party of Switzerland 12 Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland 61 Swiss People's Party 1 Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland 1 Swiss Democrats Swiss People's Party 82680 +1.61 61 +1 Social Democratic Party 71558 +4.08 53 +10 Free Democratic Party 43519 −3.64 29 −8 Green Party 21485 +2.21 14 +3 Christian Democratic People's Party 17428 −0.29 12 ±0 Evangelical People's Party 14004 +0.14 9 ±0 Federal Democratic Union 5757 +0.30 1 ±0 Swiss Democrats 3698 −1.05 1 −1 Aktive Senioren 2382 −0.79 0 −2 Alternative List 2354 +0.45 0 −1 Others 8583 – wahlen.zh.ch,Parteistärke und Sitzverteilung 2003 provisorisches Zwischenresultat http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/kantonsrat/_vergleich03-99/index.htm wahlen.zh.ch 2022-09-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20040723092222/http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/kantonsrat/_vergleich03-99/index.htm 2004-07-23 German BfSKanton Zürich: nationale und kantonale Wahlen seit 1919 https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/tabellen.assetdetail.7806622.html bfs.admin.ch 25 March 2019 Bundesamt für Statistik German The SVP remained the largest party by gaining a seat but their ally Aktive Senioren, who caucused with them, lost both their seats. The largest gains were done by the SP, gaining ten seats, well over their expectations. The FDP lost seven seats, while the Greens overtook the CVP as the fourth largest party. The Ring of Independents, which had been historically strong in the canton, lost their representation for the first time since 1939 as they had disbanded two years earlier. Panachage and apparentements played a role, mainly for smaller parties: the Greens received a large number of panachage votes from the SP, while the Statistical Office calculated most of the EVP's seats and the EDU and SD's sole seats were owed to apparentements.Statistischen Amts des Kanton Zürich 2003-09-17 Die Zürcher Kantonsratswahlen 2003 https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht/medienmitteilungen/2003/09/aee.html 2022-09-16 zh.chBentz Dominic 2003 Die Zürcher Kantonsratswahlen 2003 http://www.statistik.zh.ch/statistik.info/pdf/2003_23.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20050601161537/www.statistik.zh.ch/statistik.info/pdf/2003_23.pdf 2005-06-01 Statistik.info References Category:2003 elections in Switzerland Category:Cantonal elections in Zürich