Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 55.92% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.34%), the SVP (13.91%) and the Green Party (6.21%). In the federal election, a total of 50 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.8%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat election a total of 50 votes were cast, of which 6 or about 12.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 66.7%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election election a total of 49 votes were cast, of which 4 or about 8.2% were invalid. The voter participation was 59.0%, which is similar to the cantonal average of 59.88%.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)