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Swiss political party
The
Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland
(
German
:
Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz
,
EVP
),
Swiss Evangelical Party
(
French
:
Parti evangelique suisse
,
PEV
;
Italian
:
Partito Evangelico Svizzero
,
PEV
), or
Evangelical Party of Switzerland
(
Romansh
:
Partida evangelica da la Svizra
,
PEV
) is a
Protestant
[5]
Christian-democratic
political party
in
Switzerland
, active mainly in the Cantons of
Bern
,
Basel-Land
,
Basel-Stadt
,
Aargau
and
Zurich
.
[6]
"Evangelical" translates as
evangelisch
, the German term for "Protestant", as opposed to "
evangelical
" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
The EVP is
conservative
on
euthanasia
,
abortion
,
registered partnerships
and other typically
Christian
issues,
centrist
on economic issues
[7]
[4]
and stands rather
centre-left
on issues of
wealth redistribution
,
education
,
environmentalism
and
immigration
.
[4]
[8]
Among other things, it claims to be "
dedicated to protecting the environment out of a sense of responsibility for Creation
" and states that "the ethical values of the Bible should be the foundation of society."
[3]
The EVP is a member of the
European Christian Political Movement
(EPCM) and was previously an observer member of the
European People's Party
(EPP) until 2008. In the
Federal Assembly of Switzerland
the EVP forms a joint group along with the
Christian Democratic People's Party
(CVP) and the
Christian Social Party of Obwalden
(CSP OW).
[9]
In February 2023, in a shock result,
Thomi Jourdan
of
Basel-Landschaft
's EVP ? which has a voter base of less than 4 % in that canton ? was elected into the state government, and will join four centrist-leftist-green colleagues. He is the first EVP government member on the state or federal level in Swiss history. This was due to a very active campaign from his side, and a lackluster one of his
SVP
opponent,
national councillor
Sandra Sollberger
, who only appealed to right-wing voters. She also cited a lack of time which prevented her from campaigning properly.
[10]
Election results
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National Council
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Election
|
Votes
|
%
|
Seats
|
+/?
|
1919
|
6,031
|
0.81 (#8)
|
|
New
|
1922
|
6,036
|
0.86 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1925
|
6,888
|
0.93 (#8)
|
|
0
|
1928
|
5,618
|
0.70 (#8)
|
|
0
|
1931
|
8,454
|
0.98 (#8)
|
|
0
|
1935
|
6,780
|
0.74 (#12)
|
|
0
|
1939
|
5,726
|
0.93 (#11)
|
|
1
|
1943
|
3,627
|
0.41 (#10)
|
|
1
|
1947
|
9,072
|
0.94 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1951
|
9,559
|
0.99 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1955
|
10,581
|
1.08 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1959
|
14,038
|
1.43 (#9)
|
|
1
|
1963
|
15,690
|
1.63 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1967
|
15,728
|
1.58 (#8)
|
|
1
|
1971
|
42,778
|
2.15 (#10)
|
|
0
|
1975
|
37,959
|
1.97 (#10)
|
|
0
|
1979
|
40,744
|
2.22 (#7)
|
|
0
|
1983
|
40,837
|
2.08 (#9)
|
|
0
|
1987
|
37,265
|
1.93 (#11)
|
|
0
|
1991
|
38,681
|
1.89 (#10)
|
|
0
|
1995
|
34,071
|
1.79 (#10)
|
|
1
|
1999
|
35,679
|
1.83 (#8)
|
|
1
|
2003
|
47,838
|
2.28 (#6)
|
|
0
|
2007
|
56,361
|
2.42 (#6)
|
|
1
|
2011
|
48,789
|
2.00 (#8)
|
|
0
|
2015
|
47,355
|
1.90 (#8)
|
|
0
|
2019
|
50,317
|
2.08 (#8)
|
|
1
|
2023
|
49,828
|
1.95 (#7)
|
|
1
|
References
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- ^
The Swiss Confederation ? A Brief Guide
. Federal Chancellery. 2015. p. 20. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on December 20, 2016
. Retrieved
December 14,
2016
.
- ^
a
b
Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019).
"Switzerland"
.
Parties and Elections in Europe
. Retrieved
9 November
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Mombelli, Armando (July 25, 2015).
"Small Parties of Protest and Principle"
.
Swissinfo
. Retrieved
December 15,
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
"Appendix A3"
(PDF)
.
European Social Survey
(9th ed.). 2018. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 31 December 2022
. Retrieved
10 October
2021
.
- ^
"Switzerland?Political Parties"
.
European Election Database (EED)
. Norwegian Centre for Research Data
. Retrieved
31 March
2018
.
- ^
"Switzerland (Cantons)"
. Archived from
the original
on November 3, 2014
. Retrieved
August 19,
2014
.
- ^
Gerber, Marlene; Mueller, Sean (October 23, 2015).
"4 Cool Graphs that Explain Sunday's Swiss Elections"
.
The Washington Post
. Retrieved
December 13,
2016
.
- ^
The Swiss Confederation ? a brief guide
(PDF)
. Switzerland: Swiss Confederation. 2016. p. 18
. Retrieved
December 11,
2016
.
[
dead link
]
- ^
"Parliamentary groups of the 49th legislative period 2011?2015"
. Archived from
the original
on April 29, 2014
. Retrieved
April 28,
2014
.
- ^
Kunzle, Patrick (2023-02-12).
"Fraglich, ob das Wahlergebnis gut fur die Baselbieter Politik ist"
[Questionable whether this voting result is good for Basel-Landschaft's politics] (in German). Swiss Radio and Television SRF
. Retrieved
2023-02-12
.
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