According to an evaluation by the “Sonntagszeitung”, none of the major parties lost in parliament and at the ballot box as often as the SVP in 2022. Last year, the People’s Party won only about every second vote in parliament with 51 percent. This is especially surprising as no one occupies more seats in the National Council than the SVP.
On the other hand, under President Gerhard Pfister (60), the center had much more to celebrate: it won the most votes in the Federal Palace, namely 88 percent. Der Freisinn is in second place with 83 percent. The votes of three sessions of Parliament were taken into account.
Even the Greens (64 percent) and the SP (65 percent) can claim more success in the Bundestag than the SVP.
GLP wins the most votes
The analysis of referenda is similar. Under its party leader Marco Chiesa (48), the SVP won only every second referendum in 2021/2022 (52 percent). The Greens managed to convince the voter more often with 54 percent. In 2017/2018, the Swiss voted more often – with 59 percent of the vote – for the slogan of the SVP.
The GLP won the most referendums in 2021 and 2022. A total of 41 referendums were evaluated.
Political twins in parliament
It is no secret that the SP and the Greens are thematically very close. But the research shows that members of the two factions were actually almost political twins last year: in the left camp, the SP and the Greens voted the same 94 percent of the time.
Of the 953 votes in the National Council last year, the two sides disagreed only on 18 occasions. In the right-wing camp, the SVP and FDP were congruent with 58 percent of all votes. (you)