smartvote[1] is a Swiss voting advice application (VAA) similar to Stemwijzer in the Netherlands or Wahl-o-Mat in Germany.
In Switzerland, smartvote has been offering its services since 2003, and since 2005 it has been operated in collaboration with local partners in other countries (e.g. Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Austria).
The methodological principles behind the calculations for the conformity ratings and for the graphical evaluations are made transparent on the smartvote website.
For each national election the voters made use of smartvote some 1.2 million times (not an indication of the number of users, as a single individual can engage in multiple usage).
[2] On the basis of the results of the official Swiss Election Study,[3] some 15% of the voters in 2011 appeared to have used smartvote as an aid in decision making.