2023 Swiss federal election

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The next elections to elect all members of both houses of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland are expected to be held in 2023.

Contesting parties

The table below lists contesting parties represented in the Federal Assembly before the election.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	2019 result
Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	Votes (%)	National Council	Council of States
	SVP / UDC	Swiss People's Party	National conservatism Right-wing populism	Marco Chiesa	25.6%	53 / 200	6 / 46
	SP / PS	Social Democratic Party	Social democracy Democratic socialism	Mattea Meyer & Cédric Wermuth	16.8%	39 / 200	9 / 46
	FDP / PLR	FDP.The Liberals	Liberalism Conservative liberalism	Thierry Burkart	15.1%	29 / 200	12 / 46
	DM / LC	The Centre	Centrism Social conservatism	Gerhard Pfister	13.8%	28 / 200	13 / 46
	GPS / PES	Green Party	Green politics Progressivism	Balthasar Glättli	13.2%	28 / 200	5 / 46
	GLP / PVL	Green Liberal Party	Green liberalism Social liberalism	Jürg Grossen	7.8%	16 / 200	0 / 46
	EVP / PEV	Evangelical People's Party	Christian democracy Social conservatism	Marianne Streiff	2.1%	3 / 200	0 / 46
	PdA / PST	Swiss Party of Labour	Communism	Gavriel Pinson	1,0%	1 / 200	0 / 46
	Sol.	Solidarity	Anti-capitalism	–	1,0%	1 / 200	0 / 46
	EDU/UDF	Federal Democratic Union	Christian right Right-wing populism	Hans Moser	1.0%	1 / 200	0 / 46
	Lega	Ticino League	Regionalism Right-wing populism	–	0.8%	2 / 200	0 / 46

Opinion polls

Vote share

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	SVP/ UDC	SP/ PS	FDP/ PLR	DM/ LC	GPS/ PES	GLP/ PVL	EVP/ PEV	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size								Others	Lead
Sotomo	29 Sep – 3 Oct 2021	27,976	26.6	15.8	14.6	13.3	13.2	9.8	2.1	5.6	10.8
	1 Jan 2021	CVP/PDC and BDP/PBD merge into DM/LC

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	SVP/ UDC	SP/ PS	FDP/ PLR	GPS/ PES	CVP/ PDC	GLP/ PVL	BDP/ PBD	EVP/ PEV	Others	Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size									Others	Lead
Sotomo	23 Oct – 2 Nov 2020	19,620	24.1	16.8	15.1	12.2	11.9	9.8	1.9	2.6	5.6	7.3
2019 election	20 Oct 2019	–	25.6	16.8	15.1	13.2	11.4	7.8	2.4	2.1	5.6	8.8

References

Elections and referendums in Switzerland
Parliamentary elections	1848 1851 1854 1857 1860 1863 1866 1869 1872 1875 1878 1881 1884 1887 1890 1893 1896 1899 1902 1905 1908 1911 1914 1917 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1935 1939 1943 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Referendums	1798 1802 1848 1866 1872 1874 1875 1876 1877 1879 1880 1882 1884 1885 1887 1889 1890 1891 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1900 1902 1903 1905 1906 1907 1908 1910 1912 1913 1914 1915 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1933 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
See also: Cantonal elections and referendums

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