Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 22 October 2023 to elect all members of the National Council and Council of States.^{[1][2][lower-alpha 1]} The elections were followed by elections to the Federal Council, Switzerland's government and collegial presidency, on 13 December.

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2023 Swiss federal election

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National Council
All 200 seats in the National Council 101 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	46.6% (1.5pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– Swiss People's Marco Chiesa 27.93 62 +9 Social Democrats C. Wermuth & M. Meyer 18.27 41 +2 FDP.The Liberals Thierry Burkart 14.25 28 −1 The Centre Gerhard Pfister 14.06 29 +1 Greens Balthasar Glättli 9.78 23 −5 Green Liberals Jürg Grossen 7.55 10 −6 Evangelical People's Lilian Studer 1.95 2 −1 Federal Democrats Daniel Frischknecht 1.23 2 +1 Ticino League A. Bignasca & B. Bignasca 0.55 1 0 Geneva Citizens' Ana Roch 0.51 2 +2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Council of States
All 46 seats in the Council of States 24 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/– The Centre 15 +2 FDP.The Liberals 11 −1 Social Democrats 9 0 Swiss People's 6 0 Greens 3 −2 Geneva Citizens' 1 +1 Green Liberals 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. National Council

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The Swiss People's Party (SVP), which campaigned against migration, performed strongly, while Green and Green Liberal Parties saw their vote share decline.^[3][4][5]

The election timeline is:^[6]

• Mid-October 2022: Official information to the cantons and parties
• 31 December 2022: Deadline for party registration
• 1 March 2023: Publication of the candidacy deadlines for the National Council
• 30 April: Landsgemeinde in Appenzell-Innerrhoden (Council of States election in the canton)^[7]
• 1 May: Update of the party register
• August: Candidacy deadline for the National Council in the cantons using proportional representation
• September: Delivery of the electoral guide to the cantons
• 4 September: Candidacy deadline for the cantons using majoritarian vote with possibility of walkover
• Late September: Delivery of the voting material
• 22 October: Election day (National Council & 1st round for the Council of States)
• Late October: Publication of the official results
• 12 November: Eventual runoffs for the Council of States in six cantons representing 12 seats (FR, GE, GR, TG, VD, VS)^[8]
• 19 November: Eventual runoffs for the Council of States in ten cantons representing 19 seats (AG, BE, BL, GL, SG, SH, SO, TI, ZG, ZH)^[8]
• 26 November: Eventual runoffs for the Council of States in six cantons representing 9 seats (AR, BS, LU, NW, SZ, UR)^[8]
• 4 December: Opening of the new National Council and oath-taking
• 13 December: Election of the Federal Council

The table below lists contesting parties represented in the Federal Assembly before the election.

For this election, the Federal office of statistics reports a record in the number of candidacies. 5909 people (2408 women (41%) and 3501 men (59%)) in total, which is an increase of 1264 or 27% compared to last election, are candidates for the National Council on a total of 618 lists (an increase of 107).

Nearly a third (30%) of the candidates for the national council are younger than 30 years old. The average age is under 40 for the Greens and PS/SP, and it exceeds 50 for the smaller right-wing parties Ticino League and Geneva Citizens Movement.

The SVP, which had campaigned heavily on opposing migration,^[17] performed strongly.^{[3][18][19][20]} The SVP made gains in Romandy, gaining for the first time more national councillors than the FDP in the region.^[21] The Centre notably gained seats, surpassing the FDP — putting the latter's second Federal Council seat in doubt^[22] — while the Green Party and Green Liberal Party performed poorly.^{[4][5][23][24]} The results indicated a stark divide between urban and rural areas.^[25] Although right-wing parties gained seats in the National Council, they did not secure a majority in the chamber.^[26][27] Despite the SVP's gains in the National Council, it did not perform as strongly in the Council of States,^[28] whereas The Centre gained seats.^[29][30] Neither the Left nor Right had a clear majority in the chamber.^[31]

Following the election, SVP President Marco Chiesa stated his party had "a clear mandate" and would seek "less political correctness" and to work with the other parties.^[34] Although smaller right-wing parties gained enough seats to form their own parliamentary group, they opted to remain in the SVP group.^[35]

On 25 October, the Federal Statistical Office announced it had miscalculated the national vote count; this resulted from "a programming error in the data import software for the cantons of Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Appenzell Outer Rhodes and Glarus."^[36] The corrected vote count did not affect the allocation of seats, but found the FDP remained the third largest party by vote share as opposed to The Centre.^[37][38]

The federal elections were followed on 13 December by the 2023 Swiss Federal Council election.