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How Swiss cantons voted on two pension proposals in March 2024
Swiss voters backed a thirteenth annual old-age pension payment with 58.25% of valid votes on 3 March 2024. A separate initiative to raise the retirement age received 25.25% support and failed to win a majority in any canton.
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- Zürich52.09%
- Bern / Berne56.3%
- Luzern46.57%
- Fribourg / Freiburg72.33%
- Basel-Stadt64.45%
- St. Gallen48.74%
- Ticino70.98%
- Vaud74.35%
- Valais / Wallis64.83%
- Genève75.47%
- Jura82.54%
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Switch proposals to compare yes shares of valid ballots. Each marker shows the whole canton’s result.
The two proposals had separate totals
The pension-payment initiative recorded 1,884,096 yes votes out of 3,234,621 valid votes. The retirement-age proposal recorded 808,578 yes votes out of 3,202,508. The ballots took place on the same day. Each proposal has its own count of valid votes. Source 1 Source 2
Cantonal votes are weighted separately
Article 142 gives six cantons half a vote each and the other 20 one each. A canton’s popular result determines its vote. Sixteen cantons backed the additional pension payment, including two half-vote cantons. That produced 15 of the 23 weighted cantonal votes. Source 3 Source 1
The canton results varied across the country
Jura gave the additional payment the highest yes share at 82.54%. Appenzell Innerrhoden had the lowest at 31.45%. On the retirement-age initiative, Zürich had the highest yes share at 30.46%, still below a majority. Source 1
Switch measures while keeping the same map locations
Vaud recorded 74.35% support for the extra payment and 14.91% for the retirement-age initiative. The map shows those shares by switching the proposal at the same marker. The table supplies both exact vote counts for each canton, including those outside the map selection. Source 1 Source 4