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Appenzell Ausserrhoden

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

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Population
56'705
Permanent resident population at the end of 2024. BBl 2025 2545.
National Council
1
Ordinance of 27 August 2025, article 1, “Appenzell A. Rh.”.
Council of States
1
Article 150 of the Federal Constitution, status on 1 January 2024.
Municipalities in the register
20
3 district names in the historized commune register, state at 1 January 2026.

Names

BFS canton file: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”. Article 1 of the Federal Constitution: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”. Article 1 of the seat ordinance: “Appenzell A. Rh.”.

The next National Council election, which the Federal Council dates at 24 October 2027, is a federal election. The canton is the constituency (article 149 paragraph 3).

Next federal election

Government

Gap. The names of the sitting cantonal government and the seat count of the cantonal parliament are not copied here. No single federal directory of those offices had been read for that purpose on 17 October 2026.

National Council

Source: “Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern” (Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly, Bern). Web service councillors/basicdetails, downloaded on 18 October 2026. Party and function strings below are the German response. The same service with lang=en returned the French strings, which are on the French page. The function string is not split here into chamber office and group office. This is not an official publication of the Parliamentary Services. No private contact details.

Council of States

Next federal election

Gap. No cantonal polling date after 17 October 2026 is printed here. This page does not forecast a date.

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

Districts in the commune register

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