Federal Act on Political Rights

¹Each can­did­ate list must be signed by hand by a min­im­um num­ber of per­sons who are both eli­gible to vote and have their polit­ic­al dom­i­cile in the con­stitu­ency. The min­im­um num­ber is:

a.

100 in can­tons with 2-10 seats;

b.

200 in can­tons with 11-20 seats;

c.

400 in can­tons with more than 20 seats.²

²No per­son eli­gible to vote has the right to sign more than one can­did­ate list. They may not with­draw their sig­na­ture fol­low­ing sub­mis­sion of the can­did­ate list.

³The quor­ums in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 above do not ap­ply to any party that was duly re­gistered with the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery at the end of the year pre­ced­ing the year of the elec­tion (Art. 76a) provided that it has been rep­res­en­ted in the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for the same con­stitu­ency in the le­gis­lat­ive peri­od that is due to ex­pire or it achieved at least three per cent of the vote in the same can­ton at the pre­vi­ous gen­er­al elec­tion.³

⁴Any party fall­ing with­in the terms of para­graph 3 above must simply sub­mit the leg­ally val­id sig­na­tures of all its can­did­ates to­geth­er with those of its pres­id­ent and sec­ret­ary.⁴