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Pour une politique juste et durable des transports publics (pour des transports publics gratuits) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 512 days left Pour un État transparent en vue de renforcer la confiance dans les autorités (initiative pour la confiance) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 505 days left Pour la sécurité numérique de la Suisse 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 491 days left Pour la préservation de la pollinisation des plantes cultivées et sauvages par les insectes (initiative abeilles) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 478 days left Non aux F-35 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 456 days left Pour des transports publics forts et des tarifs aériens équitables (initiative pour des bons de mobilité) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 456 days left Pour un juste équilibre entre administration fédérale et population (frein à l’administration) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 442 days left Pour la protection des droits fondamentaux et de la démocratie dans l’espace numérique (Initiative Internet) 2026 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 401 days left Pour l’encouragement du pouvoir d’achat (initiative sur le pouvoir d’achat) 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 308 days left Pour la protection contre les rayonnements nuisibles! (initiative ondes millimétriques) 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 286 days left Pour la reconnaissance de l’État de Palestine 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 259 days left Pour une aide et une protection en faveur des personnes en fuite financées par des dons (initiative sur l’aide aux personnes en fuite) 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 198 days left Oui à la protection contre les loyers abusifs (initiative sur les loyers) 2025 · In the counting phase Pour des installations solaires non soumises à autorisation 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 71 days left Une société et une économie fortes grâce au congé parental (initiative pour un congé familial) 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 64 days left Pour une politique au service du peuple (non au lobbying) 2025 · In the signature collection phase · ⏳ 58 days left Pour des grandes entreprises responsables – pour la protection de l’être humain et de l’environnement 2025 · Pending in the Federal Council Pour une Suisse financièrement solide, souveraine et responsable (initiative Bitcoin) 2024 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une place financière suisse durable et tournée vers l’avenir (initiative sur la place financière) 2024 · Pending in the Federal Council Pour la démocratie directe et la compétitivité de notre pays – Contre une Suisse membre passif de l’UE (initiative boussole) 2024 · Pending in the Federal Council Pour des aliments sans organismes génétiquement modifiés (initiative pour la protection des aliments) 2024 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour l’adhésion de la Suisse au Traité des Nations Unies sur l’interdiction des armes nucléaires (initiative pour l’interdiction des armes nucléaires) 2024 · Pending in the Federal Council Pour un approvisionnement sûr en énergies renouvelables (initiative sur le solaire) 2024 · Pending in the Federal Council Stop aux abus de l'asile! (initiative pour la protection des frontières) 2024 · Pending in the Federal Council Légaliser le cannabis : une chance pour l’économie, la santé et l’égalité 2024 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une Suisse forte en Europe (initiative Europe) 2024 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Contre la destruction de nos forêts par des éoliennes (initiative pour la protection des forêts) 2024 · Pending in Parliament Pour la protection de la démocratie directe par rapport aux parcs éoliens (initiative pour la protection des communes) 2024 · Pending in Parliament Pour des mesures de régulation efficaces contre une propagation incontrôlée du loup, du lynx, de l’ours et des rapaces de toutes sortes 2024 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une protection efficace des droits constitutionnels (initiative pour la souveraineté) 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pas de Suisse à 10 millions ! (initiative pour la durabilité) 2023 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2026-06-14 Pour une alimentation sûre – grâce au renforcement de la production indigène durable, à davantage de denrées alimentaires végétales et à une eau potable propre (initiative sur l’alimentation) 2023 · Ready for voting · 🗳️ 2026-09-27 Pour un droit de la nationalité moderne (initiative pour la démocratie) 2023 · Pending in Parliament Confirmation des membres du Conseil fédéral par le peuple et les cantons 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui à un avenir sans expérimentation animale 2023 · Pending in Parliament Pour la protection de l’homme, des animaux domestiques et des animaux de rente contre le loup 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour l’égalité des personnes handicapées (initiative pour l’inclusion) 2023 · Pending in Parliament Oui à la sécurité de l’approvisionnement médical 2023 · Pending in Parliament Qui veut payer en argent liquide doit pouvoir le faire! 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Reconstruction analytique des dessous de la pandémie de COVID-19 (initiative de reconstruction analytique) 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Chaque kilowattheure indigène et renouvelable compte! 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Refonte de l’économie en un système communautaire de contingents 2023 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Sauvegarder la neutralité suisse (initiative sur la neutralité) 2022 · Ready for voting · 🗳️ 2026-09-27 Oui à une médecine naturelle indépendante 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui à une prévoyance individuelle indépendante 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui à des rentes AVS équitables pour les couples mariés – Pour enfin en finir avec la discrimination du mariage! 2022 · Pending in Parliament Oui à des impôts fédéraux équitables pour les couples mariés – Pour enfin en finir avec la discrimination du mariage! 2022 · Ready for voting · 🗳️ 2026-11-29 Protection contre le rayonnement de la téléphonie mobile – Un progrès pour la santé et l’environnement (initiative Saferphone) 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une politique énergétique et climatique équitable: investir pour la prospérité, le travail et l’environnement (initiative pour un fonds climat) 2022 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2026-03-08 De l’électricité pour tous en tout temps (Stop au blackout) 2022 · Conditional withdrawal Pour une politique climatique sociale financée de manière juste fiscalement (initiative pour l’avenir) 2022 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2025-11-30 Conditions de travail équitables pour les chauffeurs (initiative sur les chauffeurs) 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui à l’interdiction d’importer des produits en fourrure provenant d’animaux ayant subi de mauvais traitements (initiative fourrure) 2022 · Pending in Parliament Oui à l’interdiction d’importer du foie gras (initiative foie gras) 2022 · Pending in Parliament 200 francs, ça suffit! (initiative SSR) 2022 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2026-03-08 Renforcer l’AVS grâce aux bénéfices de la Banque nationale (initiative sur la BNS) 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une limitation des feux d’artifice 2022 · Ready for voting · 🗳️ 2026-11-29 Pour une Suisse qui s’engage (initiative service citoyen) 2022 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2025-11-30 pour une nouvelle Constitution fédérale 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour des dédommagements réglementés en cas d’épidémie (initiative sur les dédommagements) 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour un accueil extrafamilial des enfants qui soit de qualité et abordable pour tous (initiative sur les crèches) 2022 · ↩️ Withdrawn Le peuple et les cantons décident des lois fédérales déclarées urgentes! 2022 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour la protection des bébés viables en dehors de l'utérus (initiative sauver les bébés viables) 2021 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour un jour de réflexion avant tout avortement (initiative la nuit porte conseil) 2021 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Vivre avec dignité - Pour un revenu de base inconditionnel finançable 2021 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui à des rentes pérennes et équitables (initiative générations) 2021 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Contre le F-35 (stop F-35) 2021 · ↩️ Withdrawn Pour une économie responsable respectant les limites planétaires (initiative pour la responsabilité environnementale) 2021 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2025-02-09 Oui à une monnaie suisse libre et indépendante sous forme de pièces ou de billets (l’argent liquide, c’est la liberté) 2021 · 📊 Results being validated · 🗳️ 2026-03-08 Pour des véhicules plus sûrs 2021 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une imposition individuelle indépendante de l'état civil (initiative pour des impôts équitables) 2021 · Conditional withdrawal Pour la liberté et l’intégrité physique 2020 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2024-06-09 Versement de 7500 francs à toute personne de nationalité suisse (initiative pour l'hélicoptère monétaire) 2020 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Mieux vivre à la retraite (initiative pour une 13ᵉ rente AVS) 2020 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2024-03-03 Micro-impôt sur le trafic des paiements sans espèces 2020 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For a secure and sustainable pension system” (Pensions Initiative) 2019 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2024-03-03 Liability for mobile phone radiation 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For a mobile phone system that is health compatible and energy efficient 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Help asylum seekers in their home countries 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Say yes to tax-free OASI and invalidity pensions 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures New funding for care - reduce health insurance premiums! (Care Funding Initiative) 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Yes to giving the public more say in health and accident insurance 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour un climat sain (initiative pour les glaciers) 2019 · ↩️ Withdrawn Oui à l’abolition du changement d’heure 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Pour une prévoyance vieillesse respectueuse de l’équité intergénérationnelle (prévoyance oui – mais équitable) 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Against concreting over our countryside (countryside initiative) 2019 · ↩️ Withdrawn For the future of our natural world and landscape (biodiversity initiative) 2019 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2024-09-22 For a more secure and trustworthy democracy (E-voting moratorium) 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Include the CH-sign on our vehicle number plates (Number plate initiative) 2019 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Keep health insurance premiums to no more than 10 % of income (Premium relief initiative) 2019 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2024-06-09 Contre les exportations d’armes dans des pays en proie à la guerre civile (initiative correctrice) 2018 · ↩️ Withdrawn For lower premiums - a cost brake in the healthcare system 2018 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2024-06-09 Prévoyance professionnelle – Un travail plutôt que la pauvreté 2018 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Non à l’élevage intensif en Suisse (initiative sur l’élevage intensif) 2018 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2022-09-25 Appointing federal judges by random selection (Justice Initiative) 2018 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2021-11-28 Pour l’autonomie de la famille et de l’entreprise (initiative pour la protection de l’enfant et de l’adulte) 2018 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Yes to the protection of children and young people against advertising (children and young people without tobacco advertising) 2018 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2022-02-13 For moderate immigration (Limitation Initiative) 2018 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2020-09-27 Pour sauver des vies en favorisant le don d'organes 2017 · ↩️ Withdrawn Alléger les impôts sur les salaires, imposer équitablement le capital 2017 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2021-09-26 Oui à l’interdiction de l’expérimentation animale et humaine – Oui aux approches de recherche qui favorisent la sécurité et le progrès 2017 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2022-02-13 Pour un Parlement indépendant des caisses-maladie 2017 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Assurance-maladie. Pour une liberté d’organisation des cantons 2017 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Priorité aux travailleurs en Suisse 2017 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Fermer les centrales atomiques – assumer nos responsabilités envers l'environnement 2017 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For a ban on financing war material manufacturers 2017 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2020-11-29 Pour une eau potable propre et une alimentation saine – Pas de subventions pour l'utilisation de pesticides et l'utilisation d'antibiotiques à titre prophylactique 2017 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2021-06-13 For better nursing care (Nursing Care Initiative) 2017 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2021-11-28 For a Switzerland without synthetic pesticides 2016 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2021-06-13 Stop to the high-price island - for fair prices (Initiative for fair prices) 2016 · ↩️ Withdrawn For a reasonable paternity leave - for the benefit of the whole family" Federal popular initiative “For sensible paternity leave – that benefits the entire family 2016 · ↩️ Withdrawn Stop to the excess of Via sicura (For a fair and reasonable santioning system) 2016 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For more transparency in the financing of political life (Transparency Initiative) 2016 · ↩️ Withdrawn Yes to a ban on full facial coverings 2016 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2021-03-07 Yes to medicine of movement 2015 · ✍️ Not enough signatures More affordable homes"/"More affordable housing 2015 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2020-02-09 Stop urban sprawl - for sustainable residential development (urban sprawl initiative) 2015 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2019-02-10 For corporate responsibility - for the protection of people and the environment" Federal Popular Initiative “For responsible businesses – protecting human rights and the environment 2015 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2020-11-29 Swiss law instead of foreign judges (sel-determination initiative) 2015 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-11-25 Promoting cycling, foot and hiking paths (cycling initiative) 2015 · ↩️ Withdrawn Out of the cul-de-sac - avoid reintroduction of immigration quotas 2014 · ↩️ Withdrawn For the deportation of male criminals 2014 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For food sovereignty. Agriculture affects us all 2014 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-09-23 For the dignity of livestock (horned cow initative) 2014 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-11-25 Yes to the abolition of radio and television licence fees 2014 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-03-04 For crisis-safe money: Money creation by the National Bank only! (Sovereign Money Initiative) 2014 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-06-10 For healthy food produced in an eco-friendly and fair way 2014 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2018-09-23 Maximum speed of 140 kmph on motorways 2014 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Central Swiss register for convicted sexual and violent offenders 2014 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Liability for recidivism among sexual and violent offenders 2014 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Compensation for contract children and victims of compulsory social welfare measures - compensation initiative 2014 · ↩️ Withdrawn For food security 2014 · ↩️ Withdrawn Radio and television - without Billag 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Yes to protection of privacy 2013 · ↩️ Withdrawn Free-flowing traffic instead of congestion 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Road traffic charges belong to the road 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Yes to reasonable speed limits 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures More training places in human medicine - stop the impending shortage of doctors! 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures AHVplus: for a strong old-age and survivors´ insurance system 2013 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-09-25 For fair financing of transport 2013 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-06-05 Protection of life to plug the billion-franc hole 2013 · ✍️ Not enough signatures No food speculation 2012 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-02-28 For safe and cost-effective energy supply (energy efficiency initiative) 2012 · ↩️ Withdrawn For reasonable financing of healthcare costs 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For the enforcement of the expulsion of foreign criminals - (enforcement initiative) 2012 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-02-28 Pour la protection des grands prédateurs (ours, loup et lynx) 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Protection contre la sexualisation à l’école maternelle et à l’école primaire 2012 · ↩️ Withdrawn Protection de la santé contre la fumée passive - Pour une protection véritablement efficace et sans discrimination, selon les normes de l'OMS 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Initiative populaire fédérale 'Protection contre la sexualisation à l’école maternelle et à l’école primaire' 1 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For an unconditional basic income 2012 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-06-05 In favour of public service 2012 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-06-05 Fluidifier le trafic, diminuer les bouchons (Initiative sur les motocycles et les scooters) 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Oui au contrôle des votes 2012 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Récompenser la participation aux élections et aux votations par une déduction fiscale 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For an economy that benefits everyone 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Wolf, bear and lynx 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Save our Swiss gold 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-11-30 Federal popular initiative 'For a neutral, humanitarian Switzerland that is open to the world (neutrality initiative) 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Tax million-franc inheritances for our old-age and survivors' insurance (AHV) - (inheritance tax reform) 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2015-06-14 Against mass immigration 2011 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2014-02-09 Pour la stabilisation de la population totale 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Mettre les centrales nucléaires hors service 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Radio et télévision - la Confédération ne perçoit pas de redevance de réception 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Energy tax instead of VAT 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2015-03-08 Pour la publication des revenus de la classe politique (initiative sur la transparence) 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Popular initiative of 16 November 2012 : "For an orderly exit from nuclear energy" (Atomausstiegsinitiative) 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-11-27 Stop overpopulation - safeguard natural resources 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-11-30 Strengthen families! Tax-free child and educational allowances 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2015-03-08 For marriage and families - against the marriage penalty 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-02-28 Stop the tax privileges for millionaires 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-11-30 For an economy based on sustainability and efficient resource management - green economy 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2016-09-25 For a system of public health insurance 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-09-28 For the protection of fair wages - minimum wage initiative 2011 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-05-18 The Swiss National Bank belongs to us all! 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Clarify competences in respect of real engagements of the armed forces 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Stop the misuse of our pension funds 2011 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For a moratorium on member-ship of the EU 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Stop the bureaucracy! 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For health insurance transparency - stop the confusion between basic and supplementary insurance 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures The death penalty for murder in conjunction with sexual abuse 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures grants initiative 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2015-06-14 Yes to the abolition of compulsory military service 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2013-09-22 For an unconditional basic income financed by energy incentive taxes 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Let's apply human rights to men and women = Switzerland 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Protection against speeding drivers 2010 · ↩️ Withdrawn End to VAT discrimination in the hotel and catering industry 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-09-28 New employment thanks to renewable energies (Cleantech Initiative) 2010 · ↩️ Withdrawn For a liberal smoking law 2010 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Family initiative: tax relief for parents who look after their children themselves 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2013-11-24 Election of the Federal Council by the people 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2013-06-09 The funding of abortion is a private matter - relief for health insurance through the removal of abortion costs from mandatory basic insurance 2010 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2014-02-09 For a better postal service 2009 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Paedophiles should no longer be allowed to work with children' (until 20 april 2011) 2009 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2014-05-18 1:12 - for fair pay 2009 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2013-11-24 Yes to family medicine 2009 · ↩️ Withdrawn Popular federal initiative '68 billion for social security' (until 26 November 2010) 2009 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Popular federal initiative 'Protection against passive smoking' (until 19 November 2010) 2009 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-09-23 Federal popular initiative 'Let us defend Switzerland! Banking confidentiality must be enshrined in the Federal Constitution' (until 1 October 2010) 2009 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Federal popular initiative 'In favour of public transport' (until 17 September 2010) 2009 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Against new fighter planes' (until 10 December 2009) 2008 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Ensuring gambling provides benefits for public welfare' (until 22 October 2009) 2008 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Increasing popular rights in foreign policy' (treaties before the people) (until 4 September 2009) 2008 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-06-17 Federal popular initiative 'Six weeks holiday for everyone' (until 15 July 2009) 2008 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-03-11 Federal popular initiative 'For protection against gun-related violence' (until 4 March 2009) 2007 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2011-02-13 Federal popular initiative 'For freedom of expression - No to censorship!' (until 7 February 2009) 2007 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Federal popular initiative 'Home ownership through building society savings' (until 7 February 2009) 2007 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-06-17 Federal popular initiative 'Secure housing in old age' (until 7 February 2009) 2007 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-09-23 Federal popular initiative 'Room for people and nature' (until 10 January 2009) (countryside initiative) 2007 · ↩️ Withdrawn For the expulsion of foreign criminals 2007 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2010-11-28 Federal popular initiative 'Youth and music' (until 19 December 2008) 2007 · ↩️ Withdrawn For a healthy climate 2007 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Against the construction of minarets' (until 1 November 2008) 2007 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2009-11-29 Federal popular initiative 'For tax relief on building society savings for purchasing owner-occuppied property and funding energy-saving or environmentally friendly construction' (the Building Society Saving Initiative; until 27 September 2008) 2007 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2012-03-11 Federal popular initiative 'For people-friendly cars' (until 27 August 2008) 2007 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal popular initiative 'Prevention rather than milking the public - For a rethink of the tobacco tax' (the tobacco initiative) 2006 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Federal popular initiative 'For fair taxes. Stop abuses of tax competition' (the fiscal justice initiative) 2006 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2010-11-28 Against fat-cat payouts' / "against fat-cat bonuses 2006 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2013-03-03 For a ban on exports of military equipment 2006 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2009-11-29 Against the excessive construction of factories that damage the landscape and the environment 2006 · ↩️ Withdrawn No more unbridled construction of second homes! 2006 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2012-03-11 Federal popular initiative 'For a solidarity tax' (against a two-tier society) 2006 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Federal popular initiative 'Against animal cruelty and for better legal rights for animals' (animal protection lawyers initiative) 2006 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2010-03-07 For sensible financing of the health-care policy 2006 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Tax non-renewable energy, not work 2006 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For a flexible retirement age 2005 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-11-30 Federal popular initiative 'Living Water' (Renaturation Initiative) 2005 · ↩️ Withdrawn Associations right of appeal: For an end to obstructionist policy - more growth for Switzerland! 2004 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-11-30 Yes to complementary medicine 2004 · ↩️ Withdrawn Initiative for the abolition of hunting 2004 · ✍️ Not enough signatures For the abolition of statutory limitations on pornographic crimes against children 2004 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2008-11-30 for a sensible cannabis policy with effective protection for young people 2004 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-11-30 for democratic naturalisation 2004 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-06-01 Against fighter-jet noise in tourist regions 2004 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-02-24 for unrestricted access to nutritional supplement (Vitamin-Initiative) 2004 · ✍️ Not enough signatures save the Swiss Forest 2004 · ↩️ Withdrawn Against fur imports 2003 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for the family - children secure the future! 2003 · ✍️ Not enough signatures on penal persecution of war criminals 2003 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a social, unified health insurance plan 2003 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2007-03-11 on limiting immigration from non-EU-countries 2003 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for food from non-genetic producing agriculture 2003 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2005-11-27 on people's sovereignty instead of authorities propaganda 2003 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2008-06-01 on lower illness insurance taxes in the basic illness insurance 2003 · ↩️ Withdrawn for the abolition of obligatory health insurance 2002 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a complete revision of the federal constitution by the new Parliament (initiative spring) 2002 · ✍️ Not enough signatures against ritual slaughter without an anaesthetic 2002 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Moratorium on mobile communications antennae 2002 · ✍️ Not enough signatures more control over health insurance premiums 2002 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for modern animal welfare (Yes to animal protection!) 2002 · ↩️ Withdrawn for fairer child allowances! 2001 · ↩️ Withdrawn Postal service for all 2001 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2004-09-26 National Bank profits for the old-age insurance 2001 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2006-09-24 for a minimum basic insurance at affordable health insurance premiums ('mini-Max' Initiative) 2001 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for better animal rights (animal initiative) 2000 · ↩️ Withdrawn Animals are not objects 2000 · ↩️ Withdrawn Avanti – for safe and efficient motorways 2000 · ↩️ Withdrawn Moratorium on taxes 1999 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Surplus gold reserves for the old-age insurance fund (Gold Initiative) 1999 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2002-09-22 for popular initiatives to be put to the vote within six months, excluding the Federal Council and Parliament 1999 · ✍️ Not enough signatures against the abuse of asylum rights 1999 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2002-11-24 Lifelong internment for perpetrators of sexual or violent crimes who are judged to be highly dangerous and untreatable 1998 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2004-02-08 for the safe and wholesome provision of medication (Medication Initiative) 1998 · ↩️ Withdrawn for Switzerland's membership of the United Nations (UN) 1998 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 2002-03-03 Equal rights for the disabled 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 for a secure income in the event of illness (daily allowance initiative) 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for mother and child – for the protection of the unborn child and counselling for mothers in need 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2002-06-02 for freedom of expression and simultaneous lifting of the prohibition on race discrimination 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures the individual sovereignty of citizens (installation, as a supreme judicial body, of a Technical Commission of the Senate of a Swiss Academy for Technology, Vital Questions and Science) 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a shorter working week 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2002-03-03 for a capital gains tax 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-12-02 for adequate vocational training (Apprenticeship Initiative) 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 Moratorium Plus – for an extension of the moratorium on nuclear power plant construction and a reduction of the nuclear risk (MoratoriumPlus) 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 Non-nuclear energy – for an energy reform and the gradual decommissioning of nuclear power plants (Non-nuclear energy) 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 Solidarity creates security: For a voluntary civil peace service (CPS) 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-12-02 for a credible security policy and a Switzerland without an army 1998 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-12-02 Six lanes for the A1 motorway between Geneva and Lausanne 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Six lanes for the A1 motorway between Zurich and Berne 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures a second motorway tunnel for the Gotthard 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for the suppression of the right of appeal of associations at federal level 1998 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Healthcare must be affordable (Health Initiative) 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 exemplary hospital wards 1997 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for lower hospital costs 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-11-26 for greater traffic safety based on a speed limit of 30 km/h for built-up areas with exeptions (Roads for everyone) 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-03-04 Work distribution 1997 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for lower-priced medicines 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-03-04 for the acceleration of direct democracy (processing times for popular initiatives in the form of a detailed draft) 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-03-12 Property rights to be transformed into usufruct or building rights 1997 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for sickness insurance premiums proportional to income and fortune 1997 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for one car-free Sunday per season – a 4-year trial (Sunday Initiative) 1997 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 for a free choice of doctors and hospitals 1996 · ↩️ Withdrawn Yes to fair rents 1996 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2003-05-18 on financing of expensive longtime infrastructure projects 1996 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Freedom instead of laws (Deregulations' Initiative) 1995 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Saving on army and defence spending – for more peace and forward-looking jobs (Redistribution Initiative) 1995 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-11-26 Increased citizens' rights through referendums with counter-proposals (Constructive Referendum) 1995 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-09-24 Moderation in immigration 1995 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a people's value added tax 1995 · ✍️ Not enough signatures against an unjust value added tax on sport and in the social field (the Swiss sport and charities initiative) 1995 · ↩️ Withdrawn for a Swiss army equipped with livestock (the carrier pigeon initiative) 1995 · ✍️ Not enough signatures no hydroplanes on Swiss lakes 1995 · ↩️ Withdrawn Yes to Europe 1995 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-03-04 Halt to the dept economy 1995 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for the 10th revision of the old-age insurance without raising the pensionable age 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1998-09-27 for a flexible retirement age from 62 for women and men 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-11-26 for a secure old-age insurance – tax energy, not work! 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2001-12-02 for a more flexible old-age insurance – against raising the retirement age for women 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-11-26 to halve motorised road traffic for the preservation and improvement of living space (Traffic halving initiative) 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-03-12 for regulation of immigration 1994 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-09-24 for a solar cent (Solar Initiative) 1993 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-09-24 Energy environment initiative 1993 · ↩️ Withdrawn for the fair representation of women in the federal authorities (3rd May Initiative) 1993 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-03-12 for cheap food products and ecological farming 1993 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1998-09-27 for a reasonable drugs policy 1993 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1998-11-29 for a Switzerland without a tax substitute for military service 1993 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for our future at the heart of Europe 1993 · ↩️ Withdrawn Youth without drugs 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1997-09-28 for the protection of humans against reproductive technology manipulations (Initiative for humane reproduction) 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 2000-03-12 Swiss grass (to legalise soft drugs) 1992 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for media freedom without media monopoly 1992 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Negotiations on joining the EU: let the people decide! 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1997-06-08 Home-ownership for all 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1999-02-07 to protect life and the environment from gene manipulation (Gene protection initiative) 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1998-06-07 for a Switzerland without new war-planes 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1993-06-06 against illegal immigration 1992 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1996-12-01 for the abolition of the direct federal tax 1992 · ↩️ Withdrawn Formation pour tous - harmonisation des bourses 1991 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a speed maximum of 80 on landroads 1991 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a speed maximum of 130 on highways 1991 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a prohibition exporting war materials 1991 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1997-06-08 pour moins de dépenses militaires et davantage de politique de paix 1991 · ⛔ Declared invalid pour l'égalité des droits entre femmes et hommes lors du choix du nom de famille (Initiative concernant le nom de famille) 1991 · ✍️ Not enough signatures National Council 2000 1991 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a reasonable asylum policy 1991 · ⛔ Declared invalid Euro-initiative 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Egalité des droits dans l'assurance sociale 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Women and men 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures civil service for the community 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures to expand the state old-age and disability pension scheme (AHV/IV) 1990 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1995-06-25 40 army training camps are enough – protection of the environment by the military 1990 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1993-06-06 farmers and consumers – for an agriculture in line with nature 1990 · ↩️ Withdrawn S.o.S. – Switzerland without police snooping 1990 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1998-06-07 pour une compensation intégrale du renchérissement pour les rentes en cours de la prévoyance professionelle 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures contre l'immigration massive d'étrangers et de requérants d'asile 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for the abolition of the direct federal tax 1990 · ✍️ Not enough signatures to abolish experiments on animals 1989 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1993-03-07 pour l'égalité des époux lors du choix du nom de famille (Initiative en faveur de la transmission du nom de l'épouse) 1989 · ✍️ Not enough signatures transport public gratuit pour les jeunes avec les CFF et les PTT 1989 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for an environment-friendly and competitive agricultural industry 1989 · ↩️ Withdrawn contre les manoeuvres dilatoires dans le traitement des initiatives populaires 1989 · ✍️ Not enough signatures to protect the Alpine region from transit traffic 1989 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1994-02-20 Federal work-free holiday on 1 August (1st August Initiative) 1989 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1993-09-26 Cité-colline Sonnenberg 1989 · ✍️ Not enough signatures pour le libre passage intégral dans le cadre de la prévoyance professionnelle 1988 · ↩️ Withdrawn to reduce the problem of tabacco 1988 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1993-11-28 to reduce the problem of alcohol 1988 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1993-11-28 pour la réalisation de la seconde galerie autoroutière du Saint-Gothard 1988 · ✍️ Not enough signatures pour un tunnel ferroviaire de base au Saint-Gothard 1988 · ✍️ Not enough signatures contre l'exploitation mercantile de la violence et de la sexualité dans les médias 1987 · ✍️ Not enough signatures pour l'éducation aux valeurs inhérentes à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme dans l'enseignement public et privé 1987 · ✍️ Not enough signatures on limiting the admission of asylum requests 1987 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Initiative for peace 1987 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for a district of Knonau without any motorway 1987 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1990-04-01 for an area without motorway between Morat and Yverdon 1987 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1990-04-01 for a motorway-free zone between Biel an Solothurn/Zuchwil 1987 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1990-04-01 for a canton of Jura without any motorway 1987 · ↩️ Withdrawn stop using nuclear power 1986 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1990-09-23 Moratorium on nuclear power station construction 1986 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1990-09-23 pour l'élimination des excréments de chiens sur le domaine public 1986 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Save our woods 1986 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Sur la surveillance des prix et des intérêts des crédits 1986 · ↩️ Withdrawn Foreigners, reduction of number 1986 · ✍️ Not enough signatures to abolish vivisection and experiments on animals 1985 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Federal popular initiative 'against misuses of reproductive and genetic technology in humans 1985 · ↩️ Withdrawn en faveur d'impôts fédéraux plus équitables pour les couples mariés et pour la famille 1985 · ↩️ Withdrawn for a gradual but drastic reduction in animal experiments (away with animal experimentation) 1985 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1992-02-16 on army abolition and for global peace-keeping policy 1985 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1989-11-26 on abolishing the heavy transport tax 1985 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la suppression de la vignette routière 1985 · ↩️ Withdrawn contre une taxe fédérale inappropriée sur les poids lourds 1985 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Halte à la mort des forêts! 1984 · ✍️ Not enough signatures for sound sickness insurance 1984 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1994-12-04 on promotion of public transport 1984 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1991-03-03 for an affordable health insurance 1984 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1992-02-16 no more concrete – limitation of road construction! 1984 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1990-04-01 for a speed maximum of 130 and 100 1984 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1989-11-26 on consumers' protection 1984 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour sauver notre jeunesse: réintroduction de la peine capitale pour les personnes qui font le commerce des drogues dures 1983 · ✍️ Not enough signatures pour la réouverture des maisons closes dites de tolérance 1983 · ✍️ Not enough signatures on restriction of immigration 1983 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1988-12-04 Forty-hour workweek 1983 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1988-12-04 Small farmers initiative 1983 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1989-06-04 Save our waters 1983 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1992-05-17 concernant l'affectation des impôts et des droits de douane sur le tabac 1983 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Propriété pour tous 1983 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Rothenthurm' initiative 'for the protection of moorlands 1983 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1987-12-06 pour la suppression de l'heure d'été 1982 · ✍️ Not enough signatures concernant les droits de douane les carburants et leur affectation obligatoire 1982 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la compensation de la progression à froid 1982 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour sauver le Simmental des routes nationales 1982 · ↩️ Withdrawn Right to referendum on all military expenditures 1981 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1987-04-05 Town-country initiative against land speculation 1981 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1988-12-04 on lowering retirement age 1981 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1988-06-12 Taxation of heavy trucks 1981 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1986-12-07 péages pour tunnels routiers alpins 1981 · ✍️ Not enough signatures on apprenticeships and guaranteed vocational training 1981 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1986-09-28 Tenants' protection 1980 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la protection des travailleurs contre les licenciements dans le droit du contrat de travail 1980 · ↩️ Withdrawn for a safe energy policy 1980 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-09-23 End atomic development 1980 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-09-23 Prohibition of vivisection 1980 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1985-12-01 pour l'interruption du programme d'exploitation de l'énergie nucléaire 1980 · ✍️ Not enough signatures en faveur de la liberté et l'indépendance de la radio et de la télévision 1980 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Culture initiative 1980 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1986-09-28 Standardized school terms 1979 · ↩️ Withdrawn visant à garantir l'approvisionnement de la population en biens de première nécessité, et à lutter contre le dépérissement des petits commerces 1979 · ↩️ Withdrawn Help for victims of violence 1979 · ↩️ Withdrawn Un emploi pour tous 1979 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Right to life 1979 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1985-06-09 No selling of land to foreigners 1978 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-05-20 Protection of motherhood 1978 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-12-02 Length of paid vacation 1978 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1985-03-10 Banking 1978 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-05-20 Control of prices 1978 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1982-11-28 contre les importations excessives de denrées fourragères et les fabriques d'animaux ainsi que pour l'utilisation optimale de notre sol 1978 · ↩️ Withdrawn Civilian service 1977 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1984-02-26 Protection of consumer rights 1977 · ↩️ Withdrawn Free abortion in first 12 weeks 1975 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-09-25 Nuclear plants 1975 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1979-02-18 Equal rights for men and women 1975 · ↩️ Withdrawn Policy toward foreign residents 1974 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1981-04-05 contre la vie chère et l'inflation 1974 · ⛔ Declared invalid Ban liquor and tobacco advertising 1974 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1979-02-18 Age of retirement 1974 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1978-02-26 Twelve Sundays a year without motor traffic 1974 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1978-05-28 contre le bruit des routes 1973 · ↩️ Withdrawn en vue de la lutte contre le renchérissement 1973 · ↩️ Withdrawn Higher taxes on big incomes 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-12-04 Pedestrian trails 1973 · ↩️ Withdrawn Democracy in highway construction 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1978-02-26 Separation of church and state 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1980-03-02 Air pollution from cars 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-09-25 More equal taxes 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1976-03-21 Naturalization of foreigners 1973 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-03-13 Protection of lessees 1972 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-09-25 Foreigners, reduction of number 1972 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-03-13 Forty-hours workweek 1971 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1976-12-05 Federal liability insurance for cars 1971 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1976-09-26 concernant la décriminalisation de l'avortement 1971 · ↩️ Withdrawn Foreigners, reduction of number 1971 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1974-10-20 Referendum on international treaties 1971 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1977-03-13 Workers' participation 1971 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1976-03-21 Nouveau régime de financement des études 1971 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la création d'un service civil 1970 · 🏁 Concluded Construction of lodgings 1970 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1972-03-05 Health insurance 1969 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1974-12-08 introducing an old-age and sickness pension 1969 · ↩️ Withdrawn Initiative populaire fédérale 'Régime moderne de prévoyance vieillesse, survivants et invalidité 1969 · ↩️ Withdrawn contre le bang supersonique des avions civils 1969 · ↩️ Withdrawn Exportation of arms 1969 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1972-09-24 on standardized school rules 1969 · 🗑️ Written off for a real old-age and sickness pension 1969 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1972-12-03 Foreigners, reduction of number 1968 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1970-06-07 sur la protection des eaux contre la pollution 1967 · ↩️ Withdrawn Housing and family 1967 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1970-09-27 to expand the state old-age and disability pension scheme 1966 · ↩️ Withdrawn Foreigners, reduction of number 1964 · ↩️ Withdrawn Fight against alcoholism 1963 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1966-10-16 relative à une réduction de l'impôt pour la défense nationale 1963/1964 1962 · ↩️ Withdrawn Speculation on real estate 1962 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1967-07-02 en faveur de rentes d'assurance-vieillesse et survivants et d'assurance-invalidité tenant compte du renchérissement 1962 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour l'augmentation des rentes de l'assurance-vieillesse et survivants 1961 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la réduction de la durée du travail 1959 · ↩️ Withdrawn introducing on federal level the Legislative initiative 1958 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1961-10-22 pour l'amélioration des rentes de l'assurance-vieillesse et survivants 1958 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour l'augmentation des rentes de l'assurance-vieillesse et survivants et adoption du principe de la répartition 1958 · ↩️ Withdrawn Nuclear arms 1958 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1963-05-26 Nuclear arms prohibition 1958 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1962-04-01 Sauvegarde du parc national suisse 1957 · ↩️ Withdrawn on social security and international solidarity 1955 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la limitation des dépenses militaires 1955 · ↩️ Withdrawn Highway system 1955 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la réduction des impôts fédéraux 1955 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour l'introduction de l'assurance-invalidité 1954 · ↩️ Withdrawn Forty-four-hour workweek 1954 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1958-10-26 pour la création d'une assurance-invalidité fédérale 1954 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour la réduction de l'impôt pour la défense nationale et de l'impôt sur le chiffre d'affaires 1954 · ↩️ Withdrawn Misuse of economic power 1954 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1958-01-26 pour la réduction temporaire des dépenses militaires (trêve de l'armement) 1954 · ⛔ Declared invalid Consumers' and lessees' protection 1953 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1955-03-13 Referendum on expenses 1953 · ↩️ Withdrawn pour un contrôle de l'administration fédérale 1953 · ↩️ Withdrawn Protection of sites 1952 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1954-12-05 Utilization of hydraulic forces 1952 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1956-05-13 Financing of armaments 1951 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1952-05-18 Emission of banknotes 1949 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1951-04-15 Federal sales tax 1949 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1952-04-20 Return to direct democracy (emergency clause) 1946 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1949-09-11 Taxation of public enterprises 1946 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1951-07-08 Return to direct democracy 1946 · ↩️ Withdrawn Economic reforms and labor legislation 1943 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1947-05-18 Speculation on real estate and labor 1943 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1950-10-01 Right to work 1942 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1946-12-08 pour la transformation des caisses de compensation en caisses d'assurance-vieillesse et survivants 1942 · ↩️ Withdrawn Protection of the family 1941 · ↩️ Withdrawn Reorganisation of the National Council 1940 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1942-05-03 Election of the Federal Council 1939 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1942-01-25 concernant la réglementation constitutionnelle du droit d'urgence 1938 · ↩️ Withdrawn Abuse of the emergency clause 1937 · ↩️ Withdrawn Coordination of public transport 1937 · ↩️ Withdrawn concernant un programme national de création d'occasions de travail 1937 · ↩️ Withdrawn Legislation on liquor 1936 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1941-03-09 Private armaments industry 1936 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1938-02-20 Modification of the optional referendum 1936 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1938-02-20 Assurance-chômage 1936 · ↩️ Withdrawn concernant la liberté de la presse 1934 · 🗑️ Written off Impôt fédéral sur les vins et cidres du pays 1934 · ↩️ Withdrawn Protection de l'armée et agents provocateurs étrangers 1934 · ↩️ Withdrawn Measures against economic crisis 1934 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1935-06-02 Mesures visant à soustraire les chemins de fer fédéraux aux influences politiques 1934 · ↩️ Withdrawn Total revision of the Constitution 1934 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1935-09-08 Prohibition of Freemasonry 1934 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1937-11-28 Développement des routes alpestres et de leurs voies d'accés 1933 · ↩️ Withdrawn Extension of constitutional jurisdiction 1933 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1939-01-22 pour la sauvegarde des droits du peuple en matière fiscale 1933 · ↩️ Withdrawn Impôt de crise fédérale extraordinaire 1932 · ↩️ Withdrawn on old-age and survivors' help 1931 · ↩️ Withdrawn Prohibition of decorations 1927 · ↩️ Withdrawn Federal traffic law 1927 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1929-05-12 Supply of cereals 1926 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1929-03-03 Gambling houses 1926 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1928-12-02 Customs system 1921 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1923-04-15 Civil servants in the National Council 1921 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1922-06-11 Réforme de l'administration fédérale, chemins de fer fédéraux y compris 1921 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Capital tax 1920 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1922-12-03 Prohibition (liquor) 1920 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1929-05-12 Naturalization' and part 2 'Expulsion of foreigners 1919 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1922-06-11 Internal security act 1919 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1923-02-18 Old-age and sickness insurance 1919 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1925-05-24 Federal income tax 1916 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1918-06-02 Abolition of military justice 1916 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1921-01-30 Gambling houses 1913 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1920-03-21 Referendum on treaties 1913 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1921-01-30 Proportional election of the National Council 1913 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1918-10-13 Proportional election of the National Council 1909 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1910-10-23 Extend federal authority over water powers 1906 · ↩️ Withdrawn Ban on absinthe 1905 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1908-07-05 Seats on the National Council 1902 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1903-10-25 Proportional election of the National Council 1898 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1900-11-04 Popular election of the Federal Council 1898 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1900-11-04 Sharing of customs revenue among the cantons 1894 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1894-11-04 sur la gratuité des soins médicaux à donner aux malades et le monopole du tabac 1893 · ✍️ Not enough signatures Impose duty on the state to provide 1893 · ❌ Rejected at vote · 🗳️ 1894-06-03 Forbid slaughter of cattle by bleeding 1892 · ✅ Accepted at vote · 🗳️ 1893-08-20

Federal data from the Federal Chancellery via LINDAS

Canton populations from the Federal Statistical Office and the Historical Statistics of Switzerland (HSSO)

Cantonal registers