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Switzerland: election results by municipality

1971–2023 · 14 elections · CHE

SAGE has legislative election results for Switzerland from 14 elections between 1971 and 2023: 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023. The smallest unit is the municipality. The 2023 election has 2,131 municipalities, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023.

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Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

YearElection typeVote typeRound Units% locatedVotes Polygons
1971Legislative (lower house)2,9140%1,986,982[map]
1975Legislative (lower house)2,9020%1,907,165[map]
1979Legislative (lower house)2,8890%1,803,849[map]
1983Legislative (lower house)2,9010%1,922,115[map]
1987Legislative (lower house)2,9010%1,895,731[map]
1991Legislative (lower house)2,8600%2,002,881[map]
1995Legislative (lower house)2,8600%1,891,019[map]
1999Legislative (lower house)2,8600%1,951,988[map]
2003Legislative (lower house)Abroad30%8,825[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,8300%2,119,136
2007Legislative (lower house)Abroad40%10,495[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,7010%2,362,356
2011Legislative (lower house)Abroad60%11,909yes[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,504100%2,398,040yes
2015Legislative (lower house)Abroad120%26,280yes[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,314100%2,536,560yes
2019Legislative (lower house)Abroad120%26,143yes[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,206100%2,436,408yes
2023Legislative (lower house)Abroad120%28,761yes[map]
Legislative (lower house)2,131100%2,576,047yes

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 4.6 MB] [gpkg 3.5 MB] [parquet 4.9 MB] [rds 5.6 MB] [codebook 261 KB]

YearDownloads
2023[csv 321 KB] [gpkg 710 KB] [parquet 193 KB]
2019[csv 347 KB] [gpkg 721 KB] [parquet 211 KB]
2015[csv 352 KB] [gpkg 734 KB] [parquet 225 KB]
2011[csv 384 KB] [gpkg 887 KB] [parquet 224 KB]
2007[csv 523 KB] [gpkg 51 KB] [parquet 198 KB]
2003[csv 306 KB] [gpkg 54 KB] [parquet 175 KB]
1999[csv 296 KB] [gpkg 54 KB] [parquet 164 KB]
1995[csv 296 KB] [gpkg 54 KB] [parquet 175 KB]
1991[csv 297 KB] [gpkg 54 KB] [parquet 177 KB]
1987[csv 298 KB] [gpkg 55 KB] [parquet 175 KB]
1983[csv 298 KB] [gpkg 55 KB] [parquet 167 KB]
1979[csv 294 KB] [gpkg 55 KB] [parquet 170 KB]
1975[csv 297 KB] [gpkg 55 KB] [parquet 172 KB]
1971[csv 297 KB] [gpkg 55 KB] [parquet 176 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Switzerland", years = 2023)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Switzerland", years=[2023])

Sources

Notes

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

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