National Council (Switzerland)

The National Council is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the upper house being the Council of States. With 200 seats, the National Council is the larger of the two houses.
Council of States (Switzerland)

The Council of States is the smaller chamber of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, and is considered the Assembly's upper house, with the National Council being the lower house. There are 46 Councillors.
List of political parties in Switzerland

This is a list of political parties in Switzerland.
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 28 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 13 seats. It has one seat, that of Viola Amherd, on the Swiss Federal Council.
Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland

The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich. "Evangelical" translates as evangelisch, the German term for "Protestant", as opposed to "evangelical" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
Ticino League

The Ticino League is a regionalist and national-conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino.
Federal Assembly (Switzerland)

The Federal Assembly is Switzerland's federal legislature. It meets in Bern in the Federal Palace.
2007 Swiss federal election

Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007. For the 48th legislative term of the federal parliament (2007–2011), voters in 26 cantons elected all 200 members of the National Council as well as 43 out of 46 members of the Council of States. The other three members of the Council of States for that term of service were elected at an earlier date.
Verena Diener

Verena Diener is a Swiss politician, member of the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, representing the canton of Zürich in the Swiss Council of States.
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is a Swiss lawyer, politician, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2008 to 2015. She was the head of the Federal Department of Finance. She served as President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2012.
Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Since the 2015 General election, the BDP has had seven members in the National Council and one in the Council of States.
Ueli Maurer

Ulrich "Ueli" Maurer is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Swiss Federal Council. Formerly head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, Maurer has been the head of the Federal Department of Finance since 1 January 2016.
2011 Swiss federal election

Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011. All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States.