Parties – Federal Assembly reference data
parl-parties
- Publisher
- Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly
- Access method
odata- Table id
Party- Licence
- Parliamentary Services conditions of use: source "Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern" must be named; content must not be altered; the download date must always be visible; no use may suggest an official publication.
- Coverage
- Geography national · rows every party the information system knows (current, historical and cantonal parties), 83 on 2026-10-31
- Gaps
- No English names (see transformations). The service's StartDate/EndDate are not kept — many are placeholders (1848-01-01, 2007-02-27) and CVP (14) has no end date despite the 2021 merger into Die Mitte (1586). No colours, logos or websites.
- Used on
- AGORA-17, STEER-01, STEER-02, STEER-05, PLAT-08
- Known limits
- Abbreviations are the Parliamentary Services' (e.g. "FDP-Liberale", "M-E" for Die Mitte in all languages, "glp"/"pvl"); the Federal Chancellery's party register uses other short forms (FDP, PS, GLP/PVL). Differences with the register on 2026-10-31: Die Mitte IT "Alleanza del Centro" here vs "il Centro" there; GLP "Grünliberale Partei" vs "Grünliberale Partei Schweiz"; EDU FR "Union Démocratique Féderale" vs "Fédérale"; SVP, EVP, GRÜNE differ only in capitalisation.
- Verification
- verification date: 2026-10-31 · method: Fetched Party from ws.parlament.ch (83 parties). Compared names with the Federal Chancellery's party register (LINDAS cube https://politics.ld.admin.ch/political-rights/political-party-register/1, observedBy FCh, 9 parties): German, French and Italian names identical for SP (12), FDP (15) and Lega (23); the other differences are listed in knownLimits. · checkedValue: party 15: FDP.Die Liberalen / PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux / PLR.I Liberali Radicali · checkedAgainst: https://www.bk.admin.ch/bk/de/home/politische-rechte/parteienregister.html
- Processed file
- data/processed/parl-parties.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- Not a time series
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Irregular
Ledger note (in English): Rarely — when a party is created, renamed or merged.
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
The state is computed each time the site is built; this page shows it as of . Results of the accuracy checks
Transformations
- OData GET Party, languages DE, FR, IT and EN. Script: scripts/fetch/parl-opendata.ts
- party_id = ID (= PartyNumber); abbr_* = PartyAbbreviation and name_* = PartyName of each language, as published.
- DECISION — the service answers Language EN with a copy of the French text (all 83 parties on 2026-10-31). abbr_en/name_en are filled only where the EN value differs from the French one, so they are empty today.
- Rows sorted by party_id.