2009 Geneva Grand Council election

The 2009 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 October 2009. All 100 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms. The Liberal Party remained the largest party, with twenty seats, having lost three since 2005. The centre-right 'Entente', between the Liberals, Free Democratic Party, and Christian Democrats lost a total of five seats. The main winners were the populist Geneva Citizens' Movement,Stauffer et le génie de la rue Pierre Ruetschi Tribune de Genève 12 October 2009 who almost doubled their number of seats to draw level with the Green Party as the second-largest contingent. The far left alliance between solidaritéS and the Swiss Party of Labour failed to overcome the 7% threshold for representation, despite each having each separately received more than 6% at the 2005 election. Results Summary of the 11 October 2009 Geneva 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 % ! 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: Liberal Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Liberal Party | style="text-align:left;" | Classical liberalism | style="text-align:right;" | 16.71 | style="text-align:right;" | –1.71 | style="text-align:right;" | 20 | style="text-align:right;" | –3 |- | style="background-color: Green Party of Switzerland" | | style="text-align:left;" | Green Party | style="text-align:left;" | Green politics | style="text-align:right;" | 15.34 | style="text-align:right;" | +1.51 | style="text-align:right;" | 17 | style="text-align:right;" | +1 |- | style="background-color: Geneva Citizens' Movement" | | style="text-align:left;" | Geneva Citizens' Movement | style="text-align:left;" | Populism | style="text-align:right;" | 14.74 | style="text-align:right;" | +7.01 | style="text-align:right;" | 17 | style="text-align:right;" | +8 |- | 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;" | 12.91 | style="text-align:right;" | –1.71 | style="text-align:right;" | 15 | style="text-align:right;" | –2 |- | 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;" | 9.91 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.07 | style="text-align:right;" | 11 | style="text-align:right;" | –1 |- | 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;" | 9.59 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.90 | style="text-align:right;" | 11 | style="text-align:right;" | –1 |- | 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;" | 8.56 | style="text-align:right;" | –1.04 | style="text-align:right;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | –2 |- | style="background-color: solidaritéS" | | style="text-align:left;" | solidaritéS–Swiss Party of Labour | style="text-align:left;" | Socialism | style="text-align:right;" | 6.40 | style="text-align:right;" | –7.171 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | | style="text-align:left;" | Defence of the Elderly | style="text-align:left;" | Pensioners' party | style="text-align:right;" | 5.85 | 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 (turnout 39.66%) | style="text-align:right;" | 100.00 | style="text-align:right;" | – | 100 | style="text-align:right;" | – |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | 1 Compared to total of separate solidaritéS (6.67%) and 'Alliance of the Left' (6.90%) lists in 2005 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Republic and Canton of Geneva |} Footnotes Category:2009 elections in Switzerland 2009