When is the Switzerland general election 2027?

Polling day is 2027-10-24 (declared).

When will the final result of the National Council (Nationalrat) race be official?

Expected between 2027-11-22T23:00:00Z and 2027-12-24T22:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. The national final is the Federal Council's report to the National Council with the Federal Chancellery-verified results of all lists and candidates, published in the Federal Gazette (Art. 52(3) BPR). No fixed deadline. Precedent, election day to BBl publication (Fedlex SPARQL publicationDate): 2023 day 30 (decided 15 Nov, published 21 Nov 2023, BBl 2023 2613); 2019 day 37 (26 Nov 2019); 2015 day 37 (24 Nov 2015); 2011 day 30 (22 Nov 2011) plus a supplement on day 44 (6 Dec 2011); 2007 day 37; 2003 day 30; 1999 day 44 (7 Dec 1999). BFS loaded its definitive dataset on 30 Nov 2023, day 39 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023). Window opens at day 30 (Tue 23 Nov 2027, earliest publication) and closes at end of day 61 (Fri 24 Dec 2027), well past the slowest precedent (day 44): it errs late on purpose. Until then BFS figures are provisional.

When will the final result of the Council of States (Ständerat) race be official?

Expected between 2027-11-21T23:00:00Z and 2027-12-24T22:59:59Z (UTC), confidence estimate. The chamber is complete only after the last cantonal second round, and each result becomes official through the canton, not a federal act (the BPR election chapters and its Art. 77 election complaint cover the National Council only). Precedent: last second round 19 Nov 2023 (day 28); BFS loaded definitive results on 30 Nov 2023 (day 39). Window opens after the day-28 equivalent (Sun 21 Nov 2027) and closes at end of Fri 24 Dec 2027 (day 61), after the council's constituent session on the seventh Monday (6 Dec 2027): it errs late on purpose. Caveat: a court can reopen a seat much later - Schaffhausen re-ran its 2023 Council of States election on 29 Jun 2025 after Federal Supreme Court ruling 1C_467/2024 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023).

Where are the official National Council (Nationalrat) results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Federal Chancellery (https://www.bk.admin.ch/).

Where are the official Council of States (Ständerat) results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Federal Chancellery (https://www.bk.admin.ch/).

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Switzerland general election 2027

Name: Switzerland general election 2027
Start: 2027-10-24
Location: Switzerland

Polling day Sun, 24 Oct 2027. 2 races. Counted by Federal Chancellery. Times are Zurich time; hover for UTC.

National Council (Nationalrat) Scheduled

23 Nov – 24 Dec 2027

Final result window, derived from the last election. Treat as final after Fri 24 Dec, 23:59 Zurich time.

Polls close: Sun 24 Oct, 12:00
First count by: Mon 25 Oct, 23:59
Counted by: Federal Chancellery
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: bk.admin.ch

Council of States (Ständerat) Scheduled

22 Nov – 24 Dec 2027

Final result window, our estimate: treat with care. Treat as final after Fri 24 Dec, 23:59 Zurich time.

Polls close: Sun 24 Oct, 12:00
First count by: Mon 25 Oct, 23:59
Counted by: Federal Chancellery
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: bk.admin.ch

National Council (Nationalrat) 200 seats

22 Oct5 Nov19 Nov3 Dec17 Dec

Election-night count

24–25 OctElection-night count: Sun 24 Oct, 12:00 → Mon 25 Oct, 23:59, estimate.

Intermediate count

25 Oct – 1 NovIntermediate count: Mon 25 Oct, 00:00 → Mon 1 Nov, 23:59, announced.

Final result

23 Nov – 24 DecFinal result: Tue 23 Nov, 00:00 → Fri 24 Dec, 23:59, precedent.

Court validation

6–10 DecCourt validation: Mon 6 Dec, 00:00 → Fri 10 Dec, 23:59, announced.

announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateZurich time. Polls close in 394 days.

Government. No coalition formation: the Federal Assembly elects the seven Federal Council members one by one on a single day of the winter session. Only 2023 (day 52) was checked; earlier cycles not verified here. Not before Wed 15 Dec. Precedents: 52 days from polling day.

Stage windows and their sources 5 stages, each cited

Election-night count
Sun 24 Oct, 12:00 → Mon 25 Oct, 23:59
estimate

BFS publishes "laufend die offiziellen provisorischen Ergebnisse" on election Sunday via opendata.swiss (dataset eidg-wahlen-2023 description), municipality by municipality as cantons deliver (2023 intervals: from final results only up to every 5-30 minutes; BFS news 25 Sep 2023). Opening = last ballot boxes close at 12:00 local (CEST, UTC+2; DST ends 31 Oct 2027), as for federal votes. Close = end of Monday 25 Oct 2027 CEST is an ESTIMATE: no official deadline for the provisional count found. The provisional feed is corrected afterwards: in 2023 BFS fixed an aggregation error in national party strengths on 25 Oct 2023 and loaded cantonal corrections later (bfspoku.github.io/wd-poku/Info.html).
Replaced on the live page by the final result from Tue 23 Nov, 00:00.
Intermediate count
Mon 25 Oct, 00:00 → Mon 1 Nov, 23:59
announced

Art. 52(2) BPR: each canton publishes the results of all candidates and lists, with notice of the right to complain, "spätestens innert acht Tagen nach dem Wahltag im kantonalen Amtsblatt" - by Mon 1 Nov 2027 (CET, UTC+1). These are 26 separate cantonal official results, not a national final; complaints to the cantonal government are due by the third day after that publication (Art. 77(2) BPR), then appeal to the Federal Supreme Court (Art. 80 BPR). Opening (the day after the vote) is an estimate.
Final result
Tue 23 Nov, 00:00 → Fri 24 Dec, 23:59
precedent

The national final is the Federal Council's report to the National Council with the Federal Chancellery-verified results of all lists and candidates, published in the Federal Gazette (Art. 52(3) BPR). No fixed deadline. Precedent, election day to BBl publication (Fedlex SPARQL publicationDate): 2023 day 30 (decided 15 Nov, published 21 Nov 2023, BBl 2023 2613); 2019 day 37 (26 Nov 2019); 2015 day 37 (24 Nov 2015); 2011 day 30 (22 Nov 2011) plus a supplement on day 44 (6 Dec 2011); 2007 day 37; 2003 day 30; 1999 day 44 (7 Dec 1999). BFS loaded its definitive dataset on 30 Nov 2023, day 39 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023). Window opens at day 30 (Tue 23 Nov 2027, earliest publication) and closes at end of day 61 (Fri 24 Dec 2027), well past the slowest precedent (day 44): it errs late on purpose. Until then BFS figures are provisional.
Court validation
Mon 6 Dec, 00:00 → Fri 10 Dec, 23:59
announced

Not a court: the new National Council validates its own election (Wahlprüfung). Art. 53(1) BPR: the constituent session "findet am siebenten Montag nach der Wahl statt" and first establishes the validity of the elections; the council is constituted once a majority of its members' elections are declared valid - Mon 6 Dec 2027, consistent with the 52nd legislature ending 5 Dec 2027 (AS 2025 541). Precedent: 4 Dec 2023. The close (end of Fri 10 Dec 2027) is an estimate allowing for seats held back by pending complaints.
Government formed
Wed 15 Dec, 00:00 → —
precedent

The Federal Assembly (both chambers) re-elects all seven Federal Council members after each National Council election, "jeweils am Mittwoch der zweiten Sessionswoche" (parlament.ch, Legislaturwechsel): Wed 15 Dec 2027 if the winter session opens with the constituent session on 6 Dec 2027 (2027 session dates not yet checked). Precedent: 13 Dec 2023, day 52 (Wikipedia, Schweizer Parlamentswahlen 2023). Members take office on 1 January.

Results sources 8 pages, 0 can answer a results question

URL	Role	Kind	Can answer a results question	Last check
fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1978/688_688_688/de	timetable	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
fedlex.admin.ch/eli/oc/2025/541/de	timetable	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/legislatur-legislaturwechsel	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
fedlex.admin.ch/eli/fga/2023/2613/de	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Swiss_federal_election	see-also	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abstimmungen.html	results-index	other	no (no election or results marker)	broken
ckan.opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_show	open-data	results index	no (results section without an election code)	OK 2026-09-25
bk.admin.ch	authority-home	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	OK 2026-09-25

Council of States (Ständerat) 46 seats

22 Oct5 Nov19 Nov3 Dec17 Dec

Election-night count

24–25 OctElection-night count: Sun 24 Oct, 12:00 → Mon 25 Oct, 23:59, estimate.

Final result

22 Nov – 24 DecFinal result: Mon 22 Nov, 00:00 → Fri 24 Dec, 23:59, estimate.

announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateZurich time. Polls close in 394 days.

Stage windows and their sources 2 stages, each cited

Election-night count
Sun 24 Oct, 12:00 → Mon 25 Oct, 23:59
estimate

First round only. The Council of States is elected under cantonal law; 45 of 46 seats are voted on 24 Oct 2027 (Appenzell Innerrhoden elects at its Landsgemeinde in spring, SRF 2023). BFS publishes the cantons' provisional first-round results with the National Council feed (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023). Opening = 12:00 local ballot close (CEST, UTC+2); close = end of Mon 25 Oct 2027 is an ESTIMATE. Seats without an absolute majority go to cantonal second rounds in November (2023: 13 seats, rounds on 12 and 19 Nov 2023). There is no national runoff and no separate runoff file: second-round dates are set canton by canton and are not researched here.
Replaced on the live page by the final result from Mon 22 Nov, 00:00.
Final result
Mon 22 Nov, 00:00 → Fri 24 Dec, 23:59
estimate

The chamber is complete only after the last cantonal second round, and each result becomes official through the canton, not a federal act (the BPR election chapters and its Art. 77 election complaint cover the National Council only). Precedent: last second round 19 Nov 2023 (day 28); BFS loaded definitive results on 30 Nov 2023 (day 39). Window opens after the day-28 equivalent (Sun 21 Nov 2027) and closes at end of Fri 24 Dec 2027 (day 61), after the council's constituent session on the seventh Monday (6 Dec 2027): it errs late on purpose. Caveat: a court can reopen a seat much later - Schaffhausen re-ran its 2023 Council of States election on 29 Jun 2025 after Federal Supreme Court ruling 1C_467/2024 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023).

Results sources 6 pages, 0 can answer a results question

URL	Role	Kind	Can answer a results question	Last check
srf.ch/news/schweiz/wahlen-2023/wahlen-2023-innerrhoden/staenderat-kanton-ai-innerrhoder-staenderat-faessler-bereits-an-landsgemeinde-gewaehlt	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_Parlamentswahlen_2023	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Swiss_federal_election	see-also	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abstimmungen.html	results-index	other	no (no election or results marker)	broken
ckan.opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_show	open-data	results index	no (results section without an election code)	OK 2026-09-25
bk.admin.ch	authority-home	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	OK 2026-09-25

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-09-25: BPR (SR 161.1) arts. 19, 52, 53, 77, 80 (Fedlex, consolidated 23 Oct 2022); Federal Council ordinance AS 2025 541 on seat distribution; Fedlex SPARQL (Federal Council election reports 1999-2023); opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023 and BFS news page bfspoku.github.io; parlament.ch Legislaturwechsel; SRF on Appenzell Innerrhoden (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)). Last verified 2026-09-25.

Questions and answers

When is the Switzerland general election 2027?: Polling day is 2027-10-24 (declared).
When will the final result of the National Council (Nationalrat) race be official?: Expected between 2027-11-22T23:00:00Z and 2027-12-24T22:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. The national final is the Federal Council's report to the National Council with the Federal Chancellery-verified results of all lists and candidates, published in the Federal Gazette (Art. 52(3) BPR). No fixed deadline. Precedent, election day to BBl publication (Fedlex SPARQL publicationDate): 2023 day 30 (decided 15 Nov, published 21 Nov 2023, BBl 2023 2613); 2019 day 37 (26 Nov 2019); 2015 day 37 (24 Nov 2015); 2011 day 30 (22 Nov 2011) plus a supplement on day 44 (6 Dec 2011); 2007 day 37; 2003 day 30; 1999 day 44 (7 Dec 1999). BFS loaded its definitive dataset on 30 Nov 2023, day 39 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023). Window opens at day 30 (Tue 23 Nov 2027, earliest publication) and closes at end of day 61 (Fri 24 Dec 2027), well past the slowest precedent (day 44): it errs late on purpose. Until then BFS figures are provisional.
When will the final result of the Council of States (Ständerat) race be official?: Expected between 2027-11-21T23:00:00Z and 2027-12-24T22:59:59Z (UTC), confidence estimate. The chamber is complete only after the last cantonal second round, and each result becomes official through the canton, not a federal act (the BPR election chapters and its Art. 77 election complaint cover the National Council only). Precedent: last second round 19 Nov 2023 (day 28); BFS loaded definitive results on 30 Nov 2023 (day 39). Window opens after the day-28 equivalent (Sun 21 Nov 2027) and closes at end of Fri 24 Dec 2027 (day 61), after the council's constituent session on the seventh Monday (6 Dec 2027): it errs late on purpose. Caveat: a court can reopen a seat much later - Schaffhausen re-ran its 2023 Council of States election on 29 Jun 2025 after Federal Supreme Court ruling 1C_467/2024 (opendata.swiss eidg-wahlen-2023).
Where are the official National Council (Nationalrat) results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Federal Chancellery (https://www.bk.admin.ch/).
Where are the official Council of States (Ständerat) results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Federal Chancellery (https://www.bk.admin.ch/).