Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)¹

¹ In con­stitu­en­cies where only one mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil is to be elec­ted, votes may be cast for any per­son who is eli­gible for elec­tion. The per­son who re­ceives the highest num­ber of votes shall be elec­ted. In the event of a tie, the res­ult shall be de­cided by draw­ing lots.

^1bis The can­ton may pub­lish elec­tron­ic­ally and in the can­ton­al gaz­ette all can­did­a­cies that are no­ti­fied to the can­ton­al elect­or­al au­thor­ity by the forty-eighth day be­fore the elec­tion day. The pub­lished in­form­a­tion must as a min­im­um in­clude the can­did­ates:

a.

of­fi­cial sur­name and first names;

b.

name by which they are known in polit­ics or in every­day life;

c.

sex;

d.

home ad­dress in­clud­ing post­code;

e.

place and can­ton of ori­gin;

f.

party or polit­ic­al group af­fil­i­ation; and

g.

oc­cu­pa­tion.⁸⁴

² Can­ton­al le­gis­la­tion may provide for a ta­cit elec­tion where only one val­id nom­in­a­tion has been sub­mit­ted to the re­spons­ible can­ton­al au­thor­ity by 12.00 noon on the forty-eighth day (sev­enth Monday) pri­or to the elec­tion.⁸⁵