Open Politics data

We are collecting sources for the September 2015 National Elections Hackday on this page. We aim to facilitate access and provide the most usable versions of open data resources applicable to Swiss elections here. If you have any other suggestions, please leave us a note in the forums. Many thanks to the data journalism teams working on preparing the hackdays for their inputs.

Also see Politics category in the federal pilot Swiss Open Government Data Portal.

Election Process & Results

• https://www.ch.ch/de/wahlen2015/
• Historic National Election Results
• Web Services of the Swiss Parliament
• Ranking of Motions (Vorstösse NRSR)

Watchdogs, Communities, Analysis

• FreedomVote API
• Politnetz API (use token: opendata)

Population, Society, Geography

• Statistik der Schweizer Städte 2015
• Mensch nach Mass
• FORS Social Science (* requires registration; under Institution select 'Election Hackdays')

Local Datasets

The City of Zürich provides a range of relevant datasets on their Open Data Portal. We particularly recommend: Beteiligung Kantonsratswahlen 2015, Sitzverteilung in den städtischen Legislativen und Exekutiven, Gemeinderatskandidaten - Herkunft der Stimmen 2014, Steuerbares Einkommen in der Stadt Zürich, Bevölkerung Stadt Zürich.