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Zurich knows it, and so does Bern: city governments are left-wing. Meanwhile, the phenomenon also applies to smaller cities.
The green wave has passed over the Aargau. The Greens and the Green Liberals win seats: 10 in total. The Greens win at the expense of the SP, but the Liberal Greens, who are also positioned to the left on some issues, win seats in the FDP and SVP.
A “green wave” sounds like a temporary phenomenon. Are the votes of the Greens and the Green Liberals and the losses of the FDP and SVP simply zeitgeist or more?
An analysis of the electoral results of recent years shows that, especially in the cities, the right-wing parties lost a lot in the parliamentary elections in Aargau. The size of the city is also irrelevant. SRF’s analysis shows that smaller cities also tend to the left.
Exactly the opposite trend is evident for the FDP and the SVP. The two bourgeois parties have lost significantly in the last two elections. Obviously, they are finding it increasingly difficult to find voters. In the city of Baden, the share of votes for the larger bourgeois parties has dropped by eight percentage points since 2016. But also in smaller cities like Brugg and Lenzburg things are going downhill.
Also in agglomerations, the green on the left tends to be in advance, although it is not the same everywhere. In Suhr, near Aarau, for example, the SP / Greens have caught up with the FDP / SVP. Eight years ago, the two fields were still 16 percentage points apart. So there was a slip to the left here. In other farming communities, too, the left has won a share of the vote in recent years.
Right-wing parties stay with rural communities. In these, they often still have power. Last weekend, for example, seven out of ten voters at Holderbank AG still vote for the SVP or FDP.
