The Swiss government has corrected figures on the aggregate strength of political parties from the federal elections held on Sunday. The errors were discovered during quality controls.
The correction has no impact on the distribution of seats and the elected members of the House of Representatives. However, according to the corrected figures, the Radical-Liberals remain the third strongest political force in the country. Their share was corrected downward by 0.13 percentage points to 14.3%.
The strength of the Centre party was overstated by 0.52 percentage points on Sunday, so it therefore falls behind the Radical-Liberals. According to the corrected figures, the Centre comes to a voter share of 14.1%. The Centre, however, still has more seats in the House than the Radical-Liberals.
The difference is greatest for the Swiss People’s Party, which has 27.9% of the vote instead of 28.6% as stated on Sunday. The Social Democratic Party comes to 18.3% - instead of 18.0% as indicated. ...