Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland

Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland
  • Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz (German)
  • Parti évangelique suisse (French)
  • Partito Evangelico Svizzero (Italian)
  • Partida evangelica da la Svizra (Romansh)
Abbreviation
  • EVP
  • PEV
PresidentLilian Studer
Founded
  • 1919; 105 years ago (1919)[a]
  • 1994; 30 years ago (1994)[b]
HeadquartersJosefstrasse 32, Case Postale 3467
8021 Zürich, Zürich Canton
Membership (2023)Decrease 4,400[c]
Ideology
Political position
ReligionChristianity (Protestant)
European affiliationEuropean Christian Political Movement
Colours
  •   Yellow
  •   Blue
National Council
2 / 200
Council of States
0 / 46
Cantonal Executives
1 / 154
Cantonal Legislatures
42 / 2,544
Website
www.evppev.ch Edit this at Wikidata

The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (German: Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz, EVP), Swiss Evangelical Party (French: Parti évangelique suisse, PEV; Italian: Partito Evangelico Svizzero, PEV), or Evangelical Party of Switzerland (Romansh: Partida evangelica da la Svizra, PEV) is a Protestant[7] Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich.[8] "Evangelical" translates as evangelisch, the German term for "Protestant", as opposed to "evangelical" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

Logo of the party before the 100th anniversary redesign (in German)
EVP at district level, 2011

The EVP is conservative on euthanasia, abortion, registered partnerships and other typically Christian issues, centrist on economic issues[9][5] and stands rather centre-left on issues of wealth redistribution, education, environmentalism and immigration.[5][6] Among other things, it claims to be "dedicated to protecting the environment out of a sense of responsibility for Creation" and states that "the ethical values of the Bible should be the foundation of society."[4]

The EVP is a member of the European Christian Political Movement (EPCM) and was previously an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) until 2008. In the Federal Assembly of Switzerland the EVP forms a joint group along with the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) and the Christian Social Party of Obwalden (CSP OW).[10]

In February 2023, in a shock result, Thomi Jourdan of Basel-Landschaft's EVP – which has a voter base of less than 4% in that canton – was elected into the state government, and will join four centrist-leftist-green colleagues. He is the first EVP government member on the state or federal level in Swiss history. This was due to a very active campaign from his side, and a lackluster one of his SVP opponent, national councillor Sandra Sollberger, who only appealed to right-wing voters. She also cited a lack of time which prevented her from campaigning properly.[11]

Election results

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National Council

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Election Votes % Seats +/–
1919 6,031 0.81 (#8)
1 / 200
 New
1922 6,036 0.86 (#9)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1925 6,888 0.93 (#8)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1928 5,618 0.70 (#8)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1931 8,454 0.98 (#8)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1935 6,780 0.74 (#12)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1939 5,726 0.93 (#11)
0 / 200
 Decrease 1
1943 3,627 0.41 (#10)
1 / 200
 Increase 1
1947 9,072 0.94 (#9)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1951 9,559 0.99 (#9)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1955 10,581 1.08 (#9)
1 / 200
 Steady 0
1959 14,038 1.43 (#9)
2 / 200
 Increase 1
1963 15,690 1.63 (#9)
2 / 200
 Steady 0
1967 15,728 1.58 (#8)
3 / 200
 Increase 1
1971 42,778 2.15 (#10)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1975 37,959 1.97 (#10)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1979 40,744 2.22 (#7)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1983 40,837 2.08 (#9)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1987 37,265 1.93 (#11)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1991 38,681 1.89 (#10)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
1995 34,071 1.79 (#10)
2 / 200
 Decrease 1
1999 35,679 1.83 (#8)
3 / 200
 Increase 1
2003 47,838 2.28 (#6)
3 / 200
 Steady 0
2007 56,361 2.42 (#6)
2 / 200
 Decrease 1
2011 48,789 2.00 (#8)
2 / 200
 Steady 0
2015 47,355 1.90 (#8)
2 / 200
 Steady 0
2019 50,317 2.08 (#8)
3 / 200
 Increase 1
2023 49,828 1.95 (#7)
2 / 200
 Decrease 1

Notes

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  1. ^ P. Christian Protestant
  2. ^ Swiss Evangelical P.
  3. ^ Decrease in membership from 4,600 (2015)[1] to 4,400 (2023).[2]

References

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  1. ^ The Swiss Confederation — A Brief Guide. Federal Chancellery. 2015. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "Die zehn grössten Parteien in Kürze" [The ten largest parties in brief]. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (in German). Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. 28 September 2023. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Switzerland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b Mombelli, Armando (July 25, 2015). "Small Parties of Protest and Principle". Swissinfo. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Appendix A3" (PDF). European Social Survey (9th ed.). 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  6. ^ a b "The Swiss Confederation: A Brief Guide". bk.admin.ch (38th ed.). Federal Chancellery. February 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Switzerland—Political Parties". European Election Database (EED). Norwegian Centre for Research Data. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Switzerland (Cantons)". Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  9. ^ Gerber, Marlène; Mueller, Sean (October 23, 2015). "4 Cool Graphs that Explain Sunday's Swiss Elections". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  10. ^ "Parliamentary groups of the 49th legislative period 2011–2015". Archived from the original on April 29, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  11. ^ Künzle, Patrick (2023-02-12). "Fraglich, ob das Wahlergebnis gut für die Baselbieter Politik ist" [Questionable whether this voting result is good for Basel-Landschaft's politics] (in German). Swiss Radio and Television SRF. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
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