Parliamentary elections on the horizon.

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This October 21 the Swiss electorate will vote on a new federal parliament--an election that takes place every four years--determining the distribution of party seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In the run-up to the election, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation commissioned eight election barometers to be probed by the gfs.institute. The most recent, at press time, indicated that if the vote took place now, the Green Party Switzerland's fifth largest would win 10.3 per cent of seats in the House of Representatives. Currently, the Greens are still waiting to have a party member elected to the Senate.

That forecast is down slightly from a survey taken in June (10.9 per cent), but still at least 2.9 per cent more than the 2003 election result of 7.4 per cent of the house; though perhaps even more telling, the Greens' increased support is larger than any other political party received during the same time period.

For the first time voters have put environmental issues at the top of their list of concerns, hence the Greens' continuing success, the report's authors say.

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The house has 200 seats, which are distributed among the cantons based on the size of their population; each canton has at least one seat. The distribution can change every ten years, when a new census is taken. The rule, at present, is that cantons receive one seat for every...

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