Federal Act
on the Federal Assembly
(Parliament Act, ParlA)

¹ The bal­lot pa­per is a list of names of the mem­bers stand­ing for elec­tion, in the or­der of the length of their peri­od in of­fice.

² The voters may de­lete the names of in­di­vidu­al can­did­ates. Ad­di­tion­al names are not taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion. Bal­lot pa­pers on which all the names have been de­leted re­main val­id and count to­wards the cal­cu­la­tion of the ab­so­lute ma­jor­ity.

³ Only one bal­lot is held. Can­did­ates who do not achieve an ab­so­lute ma­jor­ity may stand in the sup­ple­ment­ary elec­tion.