[1] Alain Berset was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2023, as expected following the informal rotation agreement, but with a narrower margin than usual.

On 30 September 2022, SVP councillor Ueli Maurer (elected to the council in 2008) announced he would resign effective 31 December, after serving for 13 years.

For the first time, Alain Berset (PS-FR) will rank highest in seniority after heading Home Affairs for ten years; the departments left open by the resignations of Maurer and Sommaruga were Finance and of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.

[5] The vacancy opened the question of whether the SVP would field a woman on their ticket for the first time (Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf had been elected in 2007 but was not the party's official candidate).

[3] The Green Party envisioned standing a candidate as well, citing their absence from the magic formula despite their popular support and the SVP's "flouting of collegiality" in the Council, but ultimately did not run.

[8][9] Vogt distinguished himself on being a more urban figure and surprising candidate for the SVP while being more independent from lobbies, hard-line on national sovereignty, and if elected would have been the first openly homosexual member of the Federal Council.

[9][11] States Councillor for Bern Werner Salzmann declared his candidacy but was ultimately not nominated by the SVP party after being narrowly defeated by Vogt.

[9][15] Baume-Schneider represented a more left-wing side of the social-democrats, but she gained support within the other "bourgeois parties" (SVP and Die Mitte) after her interview by the important peasant group in the parliament and from her rural background; she also benefited from a warmer image compared to "glacial" Herzog.

[18] The national councilor Franziska Roth of Solothurn argued that all politicians were allowed to present themselves as candidates in a democratic party, while Hans Stöckli, a fellow MP of Jositsch from Zürich deemed it clear that a second seat for the SP should be reserved for a woman.

[19] Alain Berset and Viola Amherd were as expected selected, respectively, president and vice-president for the year 2023, shortly after the election of the new federal councillors.

[19] Martin Candinas (DM-GR) was comfortably elected as president of the National Council for the year, succeeding Irène Kälin.

The German-speaking press largely deplored it, as the German-language newspaper Tages-Anzeiger expects both to be resolved in the regular election in 2023 and called for Alain Berset and Guy Parmelin, from Fribourg and Vaud respectively, to both retire.