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

¹ Sup­ple­ment­ary elec­tions take place if a va­cant seat arises or a mem­ber is not re-elec­ted.

² If by the day be­fore the elec­tions the of­fice the United Fed­er­al As­sembly has not re­ceived more can­did­ate nom­in­a­tions than there are va­cant seats, a list of the names of the can­did­ates in al­pha­bet­ic­al or­der shall serve as the bal­lot pa­per, or a list without names but with the same num­ber of lines as there are seats to be filled.

³ In the first two bal­lots, all those who are eli­gible for elec­tion may be elec­ted. From the third bal­lot on­wards no fur­ther can­did­atures are per­mit­ted.

⁴ Ex­cluded from the elec­tion are:

a.

those who ob­tain few­er than ten votes from the second bal­lot on­wards; and

b.

from the third bal­lot on­wards, provided there are more can­did­ates than va­cant seats, the per­son who re­ceives the low­est num­ber of votes, un­less more than one per­son re­ceives this same num­ber of votes.