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Chronological, global
Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC) Liberal Party (LPS/PLS) Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) Social Democratic Party (SPS/PSS) Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD)Timeline
- Members are elected by federal parliament for a four-year term and traditionally re-elected. If the predecessor died in office, date of election, otherwise – if available – first day in office.
- ^ Not reelected (Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Ulrich Ochsenbein, Ruth Metzler, Christoph Blocher)
- ^ The office was previously declined by the first person elected:
- 11 July 1855 Johann Jakob Stehlin (1803–1879) BS;
- 18 December 1875 Charles Estoppey (1820–1888) VD;
- 10 December 1875 Louis Ruchonnet (1834–1893) VD, accepted later;
- 22 February 1881 Karl Hoffmann (1820–1895) SG;
- 3 March 1993 Francis Matthey (1942–) NE.
- ^ Exceptionally low representation of the French and Italian speaking cantons, compared to the German speaking ones (1:6). In recent years, those were overrepresented 3:4 (proportional to their population). Currently, the 2:5 proportion is close to the population proportion.
- Traditional "magic formula" of the Council's composition established: FDP/PRD 2, CVP/PDC 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 1.
- Government composition changed for the first time since 1959: FDP/PRD 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 2, CVP/PDC 1.
- In June 2008, parts of the SVP/UDC broke away to later form the new BDP/PBD. In this process, the two Federal Councillors who had been elected for the SVP/UDC became members of the BDP/PBD.