2007 Swiss Federal Council election

2007 Swiss Federal Council election
12 December 2007
All 7 seats to the Swiss Federal Council
  First party Second party
 
Leader Pascal Couchepin Moritz Leuenberger
Party Free Democrats Social Democrats
Seats won 2 2
Seat change ±0 ±0
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Samuel Schmid Doris Leuthard
Party Swiss People's Christian Democrats
Seats won 2 1
Seat change ±0 ±0
President before election

Micheline Calmy-Rey
Social Democrats

 Elected President

Pascal Couchepin
Free Democrats

On December 12, 2007, all seven members of the Swiss Federal Council stood for re-election before the United Federal Assembly for the 2008–2012 term of office. Six were re-elected; Christoph Blocher of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) was not. The Federal Assembly elected Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf in Blocher's place, who accepted her election on the following morning. Pascal Couchepin was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2008, and Hans-Rudolf Merz, instead of Blocher, was elected vice president of the Federal Council for 2008.

As a result of the defeat of their official candidate, Christoph Blocher, the Swiss People's Party declared itself an opposition party and excluded its nominal representatives on the Federal Council, Samuel Schmid and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, from its parliamentary group.

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