2016 Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election

Elections to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt were held on 23 October 2016. The big winners were the Liberal Party of Basel-Stadt, who increased their popular vote from 9.6% in 2012 to 13.8% and gaining four additional seats. Both centre-left parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party also gained ground and won one additional seat each. The losers of the elections were the centrist Christian Democratic People's Party, which lost one seat, the Green Liberal Party who lost one seat and the FDP who lost two seats; the right-wing anti-immigration party "Volksaktion" lost both of their seats.

2016 Grand Council election
23 October 2016
All 100 seats in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt (51 seats needed for a majority)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Brigitte Hollinger Sebastian Frehner Patricia von Falkenstein
Party Social Democrats Swiss People's Liberals
Last election 33 seats, 30.7% 15 seats, 15% 10 seats, 9.6%
Seats before 33 15 10
Seats won 34 15 14
Seat change 1 4
Percentage 32.5% 14.3% 13.8%
Swing 1.8pp 0.7pp 4.2pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Mück / Zürcher (BastA!), Ackermann / Friedl (Greens) Luca Urgese Andrea Strahm
Party Greens FDP.The Liberals Christian Democrats
Last election 13 seats, 11.8% 12 seats, 11.1% 8 seats, 7.3%
Seats before 13 12 8
Seats won 14 10 7
Seat change 1 2 1
Percentage 13.4% 9.2% 5.9%
Swing 1.6pp 1.9pp 1.4pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Katja Christ Beatrice Mahler Gabriella Ess Dahinden
Party Green Liberals Evangelical People's Active Bettingen
Last election 5 seats, 5.0% 1, 1.4% 1, 0.7%
Seats before 5 1 1
Seats won 4 1 1
Seat change 1
Percentage 4.3% 1.4% 0.7%
Swing 0.7pp

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Opinion polls
DateInstitution SPS SVP GPS FDP LDP CVP GLP EVP Other Lead
23 October 2016 Grand council election, 2016 32.5% 14.3% 13.4% 9.2% 13.8% 5.9% 4.3% 1.4% 5.2% 18.2%
14 October 2016Tageswoche/bzBasel30.4%17.4%10.6%10.4%12.8%6.5%4.5%3.9%3.5% 13.0%
9 September 2016Tageswoche/bzBasel30.3%16.9%10.3%11.5%12.8%6.9%3.8%3.9%3.6% 13.4%
28 October 2012Grand council election, 201230.7%15%11.8%11.1%9.6%7.3%5.0%4.2%5.3%[2] 15.7%

References
  1. http://www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch/dms/staatskanzlei/w-a/w-a-2016/w-a-2016-10-23-wahlen/w-a-2016-10-23-sr-gr-web.pdf
  2. Kempf, Felix Michel, Stefan. "Wahlen in Basel 2016". Retrieved 26 February 2017.
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