Minor Groups
The following groups or parties are not represented at either the cantonal or national level (but may hold positions in municipal parliaments).
| Abbr. | Name | W | Leader | Ideology | Founded | Popular vote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPS/PSL | Freedom Party |
Peter Commarmot | Right-wing, National liberalism | 1984 | n/a | ||
| HPS/PHS | Swiss Humanist Party |
Daniel Horowitz | Humanist Movement | 1984 | n/a | ||
| KVP | Catholic People's Party |
Lukas Brühwiler-Frésey | Catholic social teaching | 1994 | n/a | ||
| PNOS | Swiss Nationalist Party |
Dominic Lüthard | Far-right, Ethnic nationalism | 2000 | 0.05% | ||
| PPS | Pirate Party |
Denis Simonet | Freedom of Information, Information privacy | 2009 | 0.48% | ||
| TPS/PSpA | Tierpartei Schweiz | Thomas Märki | Animal rights | 2010 | 0.15% | ||
| parteifrei.ch | Lukas Harder | Voluntary association of independent politicians formed for the 2011 elections; opposing party politics | 2011 | 0.19% | |||
| MontagnaViva | Germano Mattei | Regionalism (Alpine Ticino) | 2011 | 0.08% | |||
| Alpenparlament | Alternative medicine | 2011 | 0.06% | ||||
| Konfessionslose.ch | Separation of church and state | 2011 | 0.05% | ||||
| Volksaktion | right-wing populism (Basel-Stadt) | 2002 | 0.03% | ||||
| La gauche combative | Communism (Geneva) | 2002 | 0.03% | ||||
| Les Rauraques | Separatism (Bernese Jura) | 2011 | 0.03% | ||||
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