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National Council · 24 October 2027

Switzerland

The Federal Council release of 27 August 2025 names the National Council election of 24 October 2027. The seats for that renewal are in the ordinance of the same day.

Last updated: 17 October 2026. Unofficial information. Confirm with your official election office (Federal Chancellery).

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Confederation

Article 1 of the Federal Constitution, in the German text in force on 1 January 2024, says the Swiss people and the cantons of Zürich, Bern, Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden and Nidwalden, Glarus, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, Schaffhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden, St. Gallen, Graubünden, Aargau, Thurgau, Tessin, Waadt, Wallis, Neuenburg, Genf and Jura form the Swiss Confederation.

Article 4 names German, French, Italian, and Romansh as the national languages. This release has pages in German, French, Italian, and English. There is no Romansh version.

Federal Assembly

Article 148: the Federal Assembly consists of the National Council and the Council of States; the two chambers have equal standing. Article 149: the National Council has 200 deputies of the people, elected directly by the people under proportional representation, with a full renewal every four years. Each canton is a constituency. Seats are distributed by population. Every canton has at least one seat. Article 150: the Council of States has 46 deputies of the cantons. Obwalden, Nidwalden, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden each elect one; the other cantons each elect two. The canton regulates election to the Council of States.

The Federal Chancellery writes that Council of States elections are not governed by federal law and follow cantonal law. The parliament page on the 2023 elections writes that 45 members of the Council of States are elected at the same time as the National Council, and that in Appenzell Innerrhoden the Landsgemeinde elects its deputy each April before the National Council elections. This page does not turn that sentence into an April 2027 date.

Page for the election of 24 October 2027

National Council

The ordinance of 27 August 2025 sets the seat allocation for the full renewal of the National Council for the 53rd legislative period. The 26 figures in article 1 add up to 200. The German release of the same day says Luzern and Freiburg each have one more seat than before (neu 10 bzw. 8) and Bern and Graubünden each have one fewer (neu 23 bzw. 4). The release does not name a change for the other cantons.

Where a name in parentheses follows a seat count, it is the name article 1 of the ordinance prints. The linked name is the one in the BFS canton file.

CantonsNational CouncilCouncil of States
Aargau162
Appenzell Ausserrhoden1 (Appenzell A. Rh.)1
Appenzell Innerrhoden1 (Appenzell I. Rh.)1
Basel-Landschaft71
Basel-Stadt41
Bern / Berne23 (Bern)2
Fribourg / Freiburg8 (Freiburg)2
Genève12 (Genf)2
Glarus12
Graubünden / Grigioni / Grischun4 (Graubünden)2
Jura22
Luzern102
Neuchâtel4 (Neuenburg)2
Nidwalden11
Obwalden11
Schaffhausen22
Schwyz42
Solothurn62
St. Gallen122
Thurgau62
Ticino8 (Tessin)2
Uri12
Valais / Wallis8 (Wallis)2
Vaud19 (Waadt)2
Zug32
Zürich362

Federal Council

Article 174: the Federal Council is the supreme governing and executive authority of the Confederation. Article 175: it has seven members, elected by the Federal Assembly after each full renewal of the National Council for a term of four years. Article 176: the Federal Assembly elects the President and the Vice-President from among the members for one year. Re-election for the following year is excluded.

The page “Die sieben Mitglieder des Bundesrates”, read on 17 October 2026, prints the lines below. Party abbreviations are copied as that page sets them. The 2026 vice-presidency is on the page “Präsidialjahr 2026”, which also writes that Guy Parmelin was elected President of the Confederation on 10 December 2025.

  • Guy Parmelin (SVP/VD), Bundespräsident 2026, Bundesrat seit 2016, Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Departements für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung (WBF) seit 2019
  • Ignazio Cassis (FDP/TI), Vizepräsident des Bundesrates 2026, Bundesrat seit 2017, Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Departements für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (EDA)
  • Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP/SG), Bundesrätin seit 2019, Vorsteherin des Eidgenössischen Finanzdepartements (EFD) seit 2023
  • Albert Rösti (SVP/BE), Bundesrat seit 2023, Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Departements für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK)
  • Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (SP/JU), Bundesrätin seit 2023, Vorsteherin des Eidgenössischen Departements des Innern (EDI) seit 2024
  • Beat Jans (SP/BS), Bundesrat seit 2024, Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Justiz- und Polizeidepartements (EJPD)
  • Martin Pfister (Mitte/ZG), Bundesrat seit 2025, Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Departements für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport (VBS)

Viktor Rossi has been Federal Chancellor since 1 January 2024. The same page calls him chief of staff of the Federal Council, not an eighth member.

Population

The Federal Council decree of 27 August 2025 (BBl 2025 2545) declares valid the permanent-resident population figures at the end of 2024. The table ends with Switzerland 9'051'029. The 26 cantonal figures on this page add up to the same number. It is signed by President of the Confederation Karin Keller-Sutter and Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi.

Latest full renewal

The Federal Council circular of 19 October 2022 (BBl 2022 2547) says the ordinary full renewal for the 52nd term takes place on 22 October 2023. The parliament page writes that the parliamentary elections (National Council and Council of States) were held on 22 October 2023.

Candidates and parties

Gap. No official candidacy list for the National Council election of 24 October 2027 had been read for reprinting on 17 October 2026.

Gap. Municipality pages are not published in this release. The count of political municipalities is in the official commune register.

Districts in the commune register

The Federal Council’s German page “Die Volksabstimmungen”, read on 18 October 2026, lists a popular vote on 29 November 2026 and the labels AHV-Zusatzfinanzierung, Feuerwerksinitiative, Ehepaarbesteuerung and Kriegsmaterialgesetz. This release publishes no poll, projection, or result for that vote.

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BFS commune snapshot at 1 January 2026: 2'110 entries. The same number comes from the historized-register rows current on that day whose type field is 11.

Cantons

26 cantons. This release’s district pages are in the register index. Municipality pages are not.

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