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Notes
1. The Swiss VAA (Voting Advice Application) smartvote, allows us to analyse the political issue preferences of more than 80% of the 4600 candidates contesting the national parliament.
2. The dimensions are based on over 70 questions on political issues. For the construction of these dimensions see https://smartvote.ch/en/wiki/methodology-smartspider/19_ch_nr?locale=en_CH [Accessed 18 February 2020].
3. See SRG SSR Wahlbarometer. Hauptbericht – Oktober 2019. Zürich: sotomo, p. 9.
4. See https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/wahlen/nationalratswahlen/parteistaerken.assetdetail.11048441.html (Accessed 3 March 2020).
5. The national government is elected in the second week of December following a national parliamentary election. The electoral body is the National Assembly consisting of the 200 members of the National Council and the 46 members of the Council of States.
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