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The population of the canton of Zurich has elected a new parliament. The biggest losers are the Greens.
- The so-called climate alliance will have a majority in the Zurich cantonal council for four more years.
- SP, GLP, Greens, EVP and AL have 91 seats. SVP, FDP, Mitte and EDU provide 89 cantonal council members.
- Die Mitte, which now has 11 seats in the 180-strong council, gained three seats.
SVP (new 46 seats), SP (36 seats) and GLP (24 seats) each gained one seat. The Greens are the biggest losers. They lost three seats and have 19 seats left in the future. EVP (new 7 seats), AL (5 seats), and EDU (3 seats) lost one seat each
The centre-left had long trembled in the face of the forecasts in the renewal elections, which are considered a form test for the national elections in the autumn. The Greens also emerged as losers; in the canton of Zurich they had a share of the vote of 10.4 percent (minus 1.5 percent) and thus lost three of their previous 22 seats.
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The other members of the Climate Alliance also lost slightly compared to their 2019 results; AL, EVP and GLP recorded a decrease of 0.5, 0.4 and 0.2 percent respectively. Only the SP recorded a wafer-thin increase of 0.01 percent. While the AL and EVP each lost one seat, the distribution of seats in the GLP and SP led to one seat gain each.
The winner of the election is Die Mitte
On the conservative side, the SVP increased slightly by 0.5 to 24.9 percent and thus by one to 46 seats. The FDP had a share of 15.9 percent (+0.2) and still holds 29 seats, the EDU achieved 1.9 percent (-0.4), which means that it has to give up one of its four seats.
The winner of the election is Die Mitte, which increased its share of voters only slightly by 0.2 to 6.0 percent, but won three additional seats and eleven new members. Four years ago, the predecessor parties CVP and BDP stood separately – but the votes for the BDP did not count because they could not clear the five percent hurdle in any constituency or achieve more than three percent across the canton.
As expected, these electoral hurdles did not pose a problem for the parties already represented in the cantonal council. The “Aufrecht/Freie Liste”, which emerged from opponents of the Corona measures, had a share of 3.7 percent in its best constituency and 2.2 percent across the canton.
Prominent changes
The Zurich Cantonal Council has made some prominent changes. The well-known milieu lawyer Valentin Landmann, who politicized for the SVP for four years, was voted out. The still director of the Swiss trade association, Hans-Ulrich Bigler, missed the entry into the Zurich cantonal council. The former FDP national councilor stood for the SVP. The former SP national councilor Chantal Galladé, on the other hand, made it into the Zurich cantonal council: she won one of the 180 seats in parliament in the general elections for the GLP.
In the run-up to the elections, it had already become apparent that it would be difficult for the Greens to gain ground in the elections for the Zurich cantonal parliament. In 2019 they were still supported by ongoing climate protests. According to political scientists, the topic of climate protection is still relevant, but topics such as war and security are also dominant this year. And these would primarily mobilize voters from bourgeois parties.
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