Cantonal Council of Zurich

The Cantonal Council of Zürich (German: Zürcher Kantonsrat) is the legislature of the canton of Zürich, in Switzerland. Zürich has a unicameral legislature. The Cantonal Council has 180 seats, with members elected every four years.

Cantonal Council of Zürich Zürcher Kantonsrat (German)
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
President	Esther Guyer (glp)[1][2]
Structure
Seats	180
Political groups	Parties in the Executive Council (139)   SVP (45)   SP (35)   FDP (29)   GPS (22)   The Centre (8) Other Parties (41)   glp (23)   EVP (8)   AL (6)   EDU (4)
Length of term	Four years
Elections
Voting system	Party-list proportional representation Biproportional apportionment
Last election	24 March 2019
Next election	12 February 2023
Meeting place
Zürich Town Hall, Zürich
Website
http://www.kantonsrat.zh.ch/

Elections

The council is re-elected every four years. Like other legislatures in Switzerland, elections use proportional representation with biproportional apportionment. There are eighteen constituencies, which are based on the canton's twelve districts. The district of Winterthur is split into two constituencies, one representing the city of Winterthur, and the other representing the surrounding countryside. The city of Zürich is split into six constituencies, each composed of two metropolitan districts.^[3]

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  Districts in the Canton of Zürich
• 
  Zürich municipal districts

Number of seats by constituency since 2007

Constituency		2007	2011	2015	2019	2023
I	Zürich city districts 1 & 2	5	5	4	5	5
II	Zürich city districts 3 & 9	12	12	12	12	12
III	Zürich city districts 4 & 5	5	5	5	5	5
IV	Zürich city districts 6 & 10	9	9	9	9	8
V	Zürich city districts 7 & 8	7	6	6	6	6
VI	Zürich city districts 11 & 12	12	12	12	12	12
VII	Dietikon	11	11	11	11	11
VIII	Affoltern	6	6	6	6	7
IX	Horgen	15	15	15	15	15
X	Meilen	13	13	13	12	12
XI	Hinwil	11	12	12	11	11
XII	Uster	16	16	16	16	16
XIII	Pfäffikon	7	7	7	7	7
XIV	Winterthur city	13	13	13	13	13
XV	Winterthur land	7	7	7	7	7
XVI	Andelfingen	4	4	4	4	4
XVII	Bülach	17	17	17	18	18
XVIII	Dielsdorf	10	10	11	11	11
Total		180

Latest elections

Results of the 2019 Zürich Cantonal Council election

6 22 35 8 23 29 8 45 4
Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Swiss People's Party	74,563	24.46	−5.56	45	−9
	Social Democratic Party	58,870	19.31	−0.36	35	−1
	FDP.The Liberals	47,747	15.66	−1.66	29	−2
	Green Liberal Party	39,342	12.91	+5.27	23	+9
	Green Party	36,309	11.91	+4.69	22	+9
	Christian Democratic People's Party	13,086	4.29	−0.59	8	−1
	Evangelical People's Party	12,928	4.24	−0.03	8	±0
	Alternative List	9,593	3.15	+0.17	6	+1
	Federal Democratic Union	6,926	2.27	−0.36	4	−1
	Conservative Democratic Party	4,655	1.53	−1.09	0	−5
	Labour Party	530	0.17	New	0	New
	Die Guten	260	0.09	New	0	New
	Helvida	12	0.00	New	0	New
Total		304,821	100.00	–	180	–
Valid votes		304,818	99.81
Invalid/blank votes		566	0.19
Total votes		305,384	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		910,776	33.53
Source: wahlen.zh.ch[4]

President

The council is presided over by the president, who is re-elected every year.

List of presidents

Name		Party	From	To
	Ulrich Bremi	FDP	7 May 1973	4 May 1974
	Willy Walker	-	5 May 1974	25 May 1975
	Albert Eggli	-	26 May 1975	11 January 1976
	Konrad Gisler	SVP	3 May 1976	7 March 1977
	Rolf A. Widmer	-	12 January 1976	2 May 1976
	Josef Landolt	CVP	2 May 1977	7 May 1978
	Rudolf Reichling	SVP	14 March 1977	1 May 1978
	Werner Wydler	EVP	8 May 1978	29 April 1979
	Kurt Müller	FDP	30 April 1979	4 May 1980
	Ernst Spillmann	SP	5 May 1980	4 May 1981
	Erich Rüfenacht	-	4 May 1981	2 May 1982
	Bruno Schürch	FDP	3 May 1982	29 May 1983
	Werner Bosshard	SP	30 May 1983	6 May 1984
	Wolfgang Nigg	CVP	7 May 1984	5 May 1985
	Gertrud Erismann-Peyer	FDP	6 May 1985	4 May 1986
	Hansjörg Frei	SVP	5 May 1986	3 May 1987
	Robert Hux	-	4 May 1987	1 May 1988
	Hermann Hauser	FDP	2 May 1988	7 May 1989
	Ursula Leemann	SP	8 May 1989	6 May 1990
	Ueli Maurer	SVP	7 May 1990	5 May 1991
	Paul Angst	FDP	6 May 1991	3 May 1992
	Fritz Jauch	EVP	4 May 1992	2 May 1993
	Marlies Voser-Huber	SP	3 May 1993	1 May 1994
	Peter Lauffer	FDP	8 May 1994	7 May 1995
	Markus Kägi	SVP	8 May 1995	5 May 1996
	Esther Holm	GPS	6 May 1996	4 May 1997
	Roland Brunner	SP	5 May 1997	3 May 1998
	Kurt Schellenberg	FDP	4 May 1998	29 May 1999
	Richard Hirt	CVP	30 May 1999	7 May 2000
	Hans Rutschmann	SVP	8 May 2000	6 May 2001
	Martin Bornhauser	SP	7 May 2001	5 May 2002
	Thomas Dähler	FDP	6 May 2002	4 May 2003
	Ernst Stocker-Rusterholz	SVP	5 May 2003	2 April 2004
	Emy Lalli	SP	3 May 2004	8 May 2005
	Peter Hans Frei	SVP	9 May 2005	7 May 2006
	Hartmuth Attenhofer	SP	8 May 2006	10 May 2007
	Ursula Moor-Schwarz	SVP	21 May 2007	4 May 2008
	Regula Thalmann-Meyer	FDP	5 May 2008	3 May 2009
	Esther Hildebrand	GPS	4 May 2009	2 May 2010
	Gerhard Fischer	EVP	3 May 2010	8 May 2011
	Jürg Trachsel	SVP	9 May 2011	6 May 2012
	Bernhard Egg	SP	7 May 2012	5 May 2013
	Bruno Walliser	SVP	6 May 2013	11 May 2014
	Brigitta Johner	FDP	12 May 2014	17 May 2015
	Mario Fehr	SP	4 May 2015	2 May 2016
	Ernst Stocker-Rusterholz	SVP	3 May 2015	8 May 2016
	Rolf Steiner	SP	8 May 2016	7 May 2017
	Karin Egli-Zimmermann	SVP	8 May 2017	6 May 2018
	Yvonne Bürgin-Hartmann	CVP	8 May 2018	3 May 2022
	Esther Guyer[1][2]	glp	3 May 2022	present

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