Chermignon (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁmiɲɔ̃]) is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Chermignon had an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.4 square kilometers (2.1 sq mi).

[4] The former municipality is located in the Sierre district, on the right side of the Rhone river.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, St George argent crined brunatre and haloed Or on a Horse of the second saddled and bridled Gules killing a wyvern Vert with a lance Gules.

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,261 or 83.4%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (127 or 4.7%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (87 or 3.2%).

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 42.84% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,190 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 68.6%.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,175 votes were cast, of which 94 or about 8.0% were invalid.

[7] There were 1,388 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 57, of which 53 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 179 or 32.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 8 or 1.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 143 or 25.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 0.9% were in the information industry, 49 or 8.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 41 or 7.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 1 was in education and 7 or 1.3% were in health care.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 2,155 or 79.5% were Roman Catholic, while 133 or 4.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.