National
Member of the Council of States
- French: Membre du Conseil des États
- German: Mitglied des Ständerates
- Italian: Membro del Consiglio degli Stati
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Federal Constitution Art. 150: 46 members, two per canton and one per half-canton (Obwalden, Nidwalden, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden). Each canton regulates its own election (Art. 150(3)); all except Jura and Neuchâtel use majority voting.
- Seats
- 46
Who holds these seats now
Each seat with its own constituency.
| Seat | Held by |
|---|---|
| Aargau | Marianne Binder-Keller Mitte since December 2023 ReportThierry Burkart FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | Andrea Caroni FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | Daniel Fässler Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| Basel-Landschaft | Maya Graf GRÜNE since December 2023 Report |
| Basel-Stadt | Eva Herzog SP since December 2023 Report |
| Bern | Flavia Wasserfallen SP since December 2023 ReportWerner Salzmann SVP since December 2023 Report |
| Fribourg | Isabelle Chassot Mitte since December 2023 ReportJohanna Gapany FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Genève | Carlo Sommaruga SP since December 2023 ReportMauro Poggia MCG since December 2023 Report |
| Glarus | Benjamin Mühlemann FDP since December 2023 ReportMathias Zopfi GRÜNE since December 2023 Report |
| Graubünden | Martin Schmid FDP since December 2023 ReportStefan Engler Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| Jura | Charles Juillard Mitte since December 2023 ReportMathilde Crevoisier Crelier SP since December 2023 Report |
| Luzern | Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger Mitte since December 2023 ReportDamian Müller FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Neuchâtel | Baptiste Hurni SP since December 2023 ReportFabien Fivaz GRÜNE since October 2026 Report |
| Nidwalden | Hans Wicki FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Obwalden | Erich Ettlin Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| Schaffhausen | Hannes Germann SVP since December 2023 ReportSeverin Brüngger FDP since September 2025 Report |
| Schwyz | Petra Gössi FDP since December 2023 ReportPirmin Schwander SVP since December 2023 Report |
| Solothurn | Franziska Roth SP since December 2023 ReportPirmin Bischof Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| St. Gallen | Benedikt Würth Mitte since December 2023 ReportEsther Friedli SVP since December 2023 Report |
| Thurgau | Brigitte Häberli-Koller Mitte since December 2023 ReportJakob Stark SVP since December 2023 Report |
| Ticino | Fabio Regazzi Mitte since December 2023 ReportMarco Chiesa SVP since December 2023 Report |
| Uri | Heidi Z'graggen Mitte since December 2023 ReportJosef Dittli FDP since December 2023 Report |
| Valais | Beat Rieder Mitte since December 2023 ReportMarianne Maret Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| Vaud | Pascal Broulis FDP since December 2023 ReportPierre-Yves Maillard SP since December 2023 Report |
| Zug | Matthias Michel FDP since December 2023 ReportPeter Hegglin Mitte since December 2023 Report |
| Zürich | Daniel Jositsch since June 2026 ReportTiana Angelina Moser glp since December 2023 Report |
Next vote
Sources
- fedlex.admin.ch · checked Federal Chancellery / Fedlex, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), read 2026-10-12: sizes and selection of the offices (Art. 149, 150, 152, 168, 175, 176, 188). Federal Supreme Court size from Federal Supreme Court Act (SR 173.110) Art. 1. For: Member of the Council of States
- fedlex.admin.ch · checked Federal Constitution (authentic German, French, Italian texts; Romansh translation), read 2026-10-12; party names from parlament.ch web service MemberCouncil (Party names, DE/FR), read 2026-10-12. For: Member of the Council of States in French, Member of the Council of States in German, Member of the Council of States in Italian
- ws.parlament.ch · checked Federal Assembly, Parliament web service MemberCouncil / MemberCouncilHistory, read 2026-10-12: member, party, canton, start date (DateJoining); Federal Council start dates from contiguous MemberCouncilHistory entries; departments from admin.ch (Members of the Federal Council). For: Andrea Caroni, current term, Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger, current term, Baptiste Hurni, current term, Beat Rieder, current term, Benedikt Würth, current term and 41 more
- bk.admin.ch · checked Federal Chancellery, list of election dates (Droits politiques / Votes for the next 20 years): federal election 2027-10-24, as cited by Wikipedia List of elections in 2027, read 2026-10-12. Fallback: the Chancellery page itself returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-12, so the date is not confirmed directly from the official page. For: General election, October 24, 2027
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