2015 Swiss Federal Council election

[2][3] The SVP/UDC was widely expected to fill her seat in the election; it chose Thomas Aeschi (Zug), Guy Parmelin (Vaud) and Norman Gobbi (Ticino) as candidates for the seat, with Aeschi being the favourite at the time.

[4][5] Guy Parmelin, of the SVP/UDC, was ultimately elected by the Federal Assembly on 9 December 2015.

[1] Parmelin, a farmer and winegrower from Bursins in the canton of Vaud, became the first Federal Councillor of the Swiss People's Party from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

[7] The SVP/UDC regained its second seat on the Federal Council, which it had lost in 2008, when the newly created BDP/PBD split from the SVP/UDC.

Incumbents, in descending order of seniority, including political party affiliation and department at the time of the election: Source showing only the final tallies in favour of the winner of each seat:[1] Doris Leuthard (CVP/PDC) was reelected in the first round of voting.