2009 Grand Council of Geneva election

The 2009 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 October 2009. All 100 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms.

The Liberal Party remained the largest party, with twenty seats, having lost three since 2005. The centre-right 'Entente', between the Liberals, Free Democratic Party, and Christian Democrats lost a total of five seats. The main winners were the populist Geneva Citizens' Movement,[1] who almost doubled their number of seats to draw level with the Green Party as the second-largest contingent. The far left alliance between solidaritéS and the Swiss Party of Labour failed to overcome the 7% threshold for representation, despite each having each separately received more than 6% at the 2005 election.

Results
 Summary of the 11 October 2009 Geneva Grand Council election results
Party Ideology Vote % Vote % ± Seats Seats ±
Liberal Party Classical liberalism 16.71 –1.71 20 –3
Green Party Green politics 15.34 +1.51 17 +1
Geneva Citizens' Movement Populism 14.74 +7.01 17 +8
Social Democratic Party Social democracy 12.91 –1.71 15 –2
Christian Democratic People's Party Christian democracy 9.91 +0.07 11 –1
Free Democratic Party Classical liberalism 9.59 –0.90 11 –1
Swiss People's Party National conservatism 8.56 –1.04 9 –2
solidaritéS–Swiss Party of Labour Socialism 6.40 –7.171 0 ±0
Defence of the Elderly Pensioners' party 5.85 N/A 0 N/A
Total (turnout 39.66%) 100.00 – 100 –
1 Compared to total of separate solidaritéS (6.67%) and 'Alliance of the Left' (6.90%) lists in 2005
Source: Republic and Canton of Geneva

Footnotes
  1. Ruetschi, Pierre (12 October 2009). "Stauffer et le génie de la rue". Tribune de Genève.


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