Composition
The Federal Assembly is made up of two chambers:
- the National Council, with 200 seats
- the Council of States, with 46 councillors.
Seats in the National Council are allocated to the cantons proportionally, based on population. In the Council of States, every canton has two seats (except for the former "half-cantons", which have one seat each).
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