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This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. As one of the cantons defined until 1999 as "half-cantons", Basel-Landschaft elects only one member to the Council of States [1]
This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. As one of the cantons defined until 1999 as "half-cantons", Basel-Landschaft elects only one member to the Council of States [1]
| Election | Councillor (Party) | |
|---|---|---|
| Appointed |  Stephan Gutzwiller Free Democratic Party 1848–1851 | |
| Eugen Madeux Free Democratic Party 1851–1855 | ||
| August Gysin Free Democratic Party 1855–1856 | ||
| Rudolf Riggenbach Free Democratic Party 1856–1862 | ||
 Anton von Blarer Free Democratic Party 1862–1864 | ||
| Emil Remig. Frey Free Democratic Party 1864–1868 | ||
| Emanuel Löw Free Democratic Party 1868–1869 | ||
 Martin Birmann Liberal Party 1869–1890 | ||
| Johann Jakob Stutz Free Democratic Party 1890–1913 | ||
| Jakob Buser Free Democratic Party 1913–1914 | ||
| Gustav Joh. Schneider Free Democratic Party 1914–1932 | ||
| Emil Rudin Free Democratic Party 1932–1935 | ||
| 1935 | Walter Schaub Social Democratic Party 1935–1947 | |
| 1939 | ||
| 1943 | ||
| 1947 | Paul Brodbeck Free Democratic Party 1947–1955 | |
| 1951 | ||
| 1955 | Emil Müller Social Democratic Party 1955–1967 | |
| 1959 | ||
| 1963 | ||
| 1967 |  Werner Jauslin Free Democratic Party 1967–1979 | |
| 1971 | ||
| 1975 | ||
| 1979 |  Eduard Belser Social Democratic Party 1979–1987 | |
| 1983 | ||
| 1987 |  René Rhinow Free Democratic Party 1987–1999 | |
| 1991 | ||
| 1995 | ||
| 1999 |  Hans Fünfschilling Free Democratic Party 1999–2007 | |
| 2003 | ||
| 2007 |  Claude Janiak Social Democratic Party 2007–2019 | |
| 2011 | ||
| 2015 | ||
| 2019 |  Maya Graf Green Party 2019–present | |
| 2023 |
| Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1848 | Emil Remig. Frey (FDP/PRD) | Johann Jakob Matt (FDP/PRD) | 2 seats 1848–1863 | |||||||||||
| 1849 | Joh. Heinrich Plattner (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1851 | Stephan Gutzwiller (FDP/PRD) | Johann Mesmer (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||
| 1854 | Johann Bussinger (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1857 | Daniel Bieder (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1860 | ||||||||||||||
| 1863 | Jakob Josef Adam (FDP/PRD) | Jakob B. Graf (FDP/PRD) | 3 seats 1863–1911 | |||||||||||
| 1866 | Johann Jakob Baader (Liberal) | |||||||||||||
| 1868 | Martin Bider (Liberal) | |||||||||||||
| 1869 | Emanuel Löw (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1872 | Emil Joh. Rud. Frey (FDP/PRD) | Jakob B. Graf (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||
| 1875 | Gedeon Thommen (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1878 | ||||||||||||||
| 1881 | ||||||||||||||
| 1882 | Ambrosius Rosenmund (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1884 | ||||||||||||||
| 1887 | Johann Jakob Stutz (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1890 | Jakob Buser (FDP/PRD) | Emil Joh. Rud. Frey (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||
| 1891 | Johannes Suter (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1893 | ||||||||||||||
| 1894 | Walter F. Meyer (BAB*) | |||||||||||||
| 1896 | ||||||||||||||
| 1899 | Stephan Gschwind (Grut&PS*) | |||||||||||||
| 1902 | ||||||||||||||
| 1904 | Albert Schwander (proc Soc*) | |||||||||||||
| 1905 | ||||||||||||||
| 1908 | ||||||||||||||
| 1911 | Hermann Straumann (FDP/PRD) | 4 seats 1911–1963 | ||||||||||||
| 1912 | Albert Grieder (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1914 | Gustav Adolf Seiler (FDP/PRD) | Heinrich O. Strub (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||
| 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| 1919 | Karl Adolf Brodtbeck (SP/PS) | Karl Stohler (FDP/PRD) | Carl Tanner (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||
| 1922 | Adolf Ast (PAB) | |||||||||||||
| 1924 | Johann Surbeck (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1925 | ||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Karl von Blarer (Conservative) | |||||||||||||
| 1931 | Karl Stohler (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1932 | Arnold Meyer (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1935 | Rudolf Scheibler (FDP/PRD) | Leo Mann (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | Hugo Gschwind (Conservative) | Hans-Konrad Sonderegger (Ind.) | ||||||||||||
| 1943 | Ernst Boerlin (FDP/PRD) | Walter Hilfiker (SP/PS) | Kurt Leupin (SD/DS) | |||||||||||
| 1945 | Albert Ryser (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1947 | Walter Degen (PAB) | |||||||||||||
| 1951 | Albert Ryser (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1952 | Josef Tschopp (Conservative) | |||||||||||||
| 1955 | Leo Lejeune (SP/PS) | Fritz Waldner (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||
| 1959 | Walter Degen (PAB) | |||||||||||||
| 1963 | Fritz Maurer (FDP/PRD) | Paul Wagner (SP/PS) | 5 seats 1963–1971 | |||||||||||
| 1967 | Karl Flubacher (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1971 | Claudius Alder (LDU/LdI) | Felix Auer (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | Hans-Rudolf Feigenwinter (CVP/PDC) | Hans-Rudolf Nebiker (SVP/UDC) | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | Heinrich Ott (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | Angeline Fankhauser (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | Hans Rudolf Gysin (FDP/PRD) | Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer (POCH) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Theo Meyer (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | Ruth Gonseth (GPS/PES) | Rudolf Keller (SD/DS) | Christian Miesch (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||
| 1995 | Rudolf Imhof (CVP/PDC) | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Caspar Baader (SVP/UDC) | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | Claude Janiak (SP/PS) | Paul Kurrus (FDP/PRD) | Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer (SP/PS) | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Maya Graf (GPS/PES) | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | 6 seats 2003–2011 | Christian Miesch (SVP/UDC) | Walter Jermann (CVP/PDC) | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Eric Nussbaumer (SP/PS) | Kathrin Amacker-Amann (CVP/PDC) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter (CVP/PDC) | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Daniela Schneeberger (FDP.The Liberals) | Thomas de Courten (SVP/UDC) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Christian Miesch (SVP/UDC) | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Sandra Sollberger (SVP/UDC) | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Florence Brenzikofer [n 1] (GPS/PES) | Samira Marti (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||
| 2023 | Thomas de Courten (SVP/UDC) | |||||||||||||
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