Swissvotes is a service provided by Année Politique Suisse which, in turn, is a venture of the Schweizerische Akademie für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Our contact information is available here.

This website’s contents and structure, including the logos, are protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. Providing that you indicate the source, you are free to use the contents of this website. We recommend to use the following form of citation:

Swissvotes (20xy). Swissvotes – the Database on the Swiss Popular Votes. Année Politique Suisse, University of Bern. Online: www.swissvotes.ch. Accessed [Date].

Our codebook details the sources of the data, including the original government documents, which are provided by Swissvotes.

The documents provided by Swissvotes, including the excerpts from the Federal Gazette, are not official publications in the sense of art. 49 PublV. The only authoritative publications are the ones by the Swiss Federal Chancellery.

Permission to publish the images of campaign material in Swissvotes was kindly granted by the Museum of Design Zurich, by the Swiss Social Archives, or by the relevant parties and organisations. Any subsequent use of the Museum’s or the Social Archives’ images is subject to their respective guidelines (see the guidelines stipulated by the Museum of Design Zurich and the Social Archives). Notably, any use for the benefit of third parties - publication of the pictures or other commercial use - is not permitted without permission of the copyright holder. Any images with the caption «Swissvotes database» were provided to us by the respective parties and organisations. Please contact the respective party or organisation for any subsequent use of those images.

The brief text descriptions of all votes from 1848 to 2007 were originally published in 2010 in the «Handbuch der eidgenössischen Volksabstimmungen 1848–2007». The handbook was edited by Wolf Linder, Christian Bolliger, and Yvan Rielle, and was published by the publishing house of Haupt. In addition to the vote descriptions which are now available on Swissvotes, this handbook also contains chapters with background information on the institutions of direct democracy, the parties, and the politically relevant associations of Switzerland. You can order the handbook (in German) from the Haupt publishing house.

We are grateful to the following institutions which have financially supported the technical implementation of Swissvotes’ new website:

Schweizerische Akademie für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

Lotteriefonds des Kantons Bern

Ernst Göhner Stiftung

We are also grateful to Seantis for implementing our website.