Riddes is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Riddes has an area, as of 2011[update], of 23.9 square kilometers (9.2 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Martigny district, on the left bank of the Rhone.

It consists of the village of Riddes, the hamlet of Auddes, and the vacation resorts of La Tzoumaz in Mayens-de-Riddes and Écône.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Trierced per pale wavy Azure a wheat ear Or in chief two Mullets of Five Argent, Argent a bridge masoned towered Sable and Gules a Grille Or.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,945 or 88.5%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (106 or 4.8%) and German is the third (72 or 3.3%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 30.97% of the vote.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,003 votes were cast, of which 62 or about 6.2% were invalid.

In the tertiary sector; 177 or 40.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 2.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 43 or 9.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 15 or 3.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 29 or 6.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 11 or 2.5% were in education and 81 or 18.3% were in health care.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 1,910 or 86.9% were Roman Catholic, while 98 or 4.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

It was open a total of 160 days with average of 8 hours per week during that year.

[17] Riddes is home to Les Fils Maye, one of the canton of Valais' only 19th-century wineries that remains in the ownership of the original family.