2019 Zürich cantonal elections

The 2019 Zürich cantonal elections were held on 24 March 2019, to elect the seven members of the cantonal Executive Council and the 180 members of the Cantonal Council. All five incumbents running were re-elected to the Executive Council, as well as green candidate Martin Neukom and Swiss People's Party candidate Natalie Rickli.

2019 Zürich cantonal elections
24 March 2019
All 7 seats in the Executive Council of Zürich
All 180 seats in the Cantonal Council of Zürich (91 seats needed for a majority)
Executive Council
  First party Second party
 
Party Social Democrats Swiss People's
Elected Mario Fehr
173,231, 83.80%		 Ernst Stocker
140,951, 68.19%
  Jacqueline Fehr
149,104, 72.13%		 Natalie Rickli
116,096, 56.16%
  Third party Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Christian Democrats FDP.The Liberals Greens
Elected Sylvia Steiner
135,481, 65.54%		 Carmen W. Späh
126,229, 61.06%		 Martin Neukom
121,823, 58.93%
Cantonal Council
Party % Seats +/–
Swiss People's 24.46% 45 −9
Social Democrats 19.31% 35 −1
FDP.The Liberals 15.66% 29 −2
Green Liberals 12.91% 23 +9
Greens 11.91% 22 +9
Christian Democrats 4.29% 8 −1
Evangelical People's 4.24% 8 0
Alternative List 3.15% 6 +1
Federal Democrats 2.27% 4 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The election was an upset for the left-wing and green parties. The Green Party re-gained an executive councilor as Neukom was elected and both social-democratic candidates topped the polls, although the right-of-center parties maintained a majority in the Executive Council. Both the Greens and Green-Liberals made important gains in the Cantonal Council, ending the right-of-center parties' overall majority.

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