Concerns about immigration and the receding green wave of 2019 were what gave the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and the left-wing Social Democratic Party gains in Switzerland’s 2023 federal elections. Do you want to read our weekly top stories? Subscribe here. The People’s Party was able to better mobilise voters, while the Social Democrats benefited from debates about purchasing power and health insurance premiums. These were the findings of a study presented in Bern on Thursday by the Selects election research project, which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and conducted by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) in Lausanne. People’s Party mobilised more strongly The People’s Party was able to mobilise more strongly than in 2019 and, according to the study, voters remained loyal. Some 55% of people who identified with the right went to the polls, compared to 49% four years earlier. And almost nine out of ten people who voted for ...
