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This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Basel-Stadt. As one of the cantons defined until 1999 as "half-cantons", Basel-Stadt elects only one member to the Council of States
This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Basel-Stadt. As one of the cantons defined until 1999 as "half-cantons", Basel-Stadt elects only one member to the Council of States
| Election | Councillor (Party) | |
|---|---|---|
| Appointed |  Johann Jakob Stehlin Liberal Party 1848–1853 | |
| Joh. Rudolf Merian Basel-Stadt Centre right 1853–1855 | ||
 August Stähelin Basel-Stadt Centre right 1855–1860 | ||
| Georg Felber Basel-Stadt Centre right 1860–1861 | ||
| August Stähelin Basel-Stadt Centre right 1861–1866 | ||
 Alphons Koechlin Basel-Stadt Centre right 1866–1875 | ||
 Karl Rudolf Stehlin Basel-Stadt Centre right 1875–1881 | ||
 Chr. Friedrich Göttisheim Free Democratic Party 1881–1881 | ||
| Wilhelm Klein Free Democratic Party 1881–1896 | ||
| Paul Scherrer Free Democratic Party 1896–1919 | ||
| Victor Emil Scherer Free Democratic Party 1919–1925 | ||
| Eugen Wullschleger Social Democratic Party 1925–1928 | ||
| Ernst-Alfred Thalmann Free Democratic Party 1928–1935 | ||
 Gustav Wenk Social Democratic Party 1935–1956 | ||
 Hans-Peter Tschudi Social Democratic Party 1956–1959 | ||
 Eugen Dietschi Free Democratic Party 1960–1967 | ||
| 1963 | ||
| 1967 | Willi Wenk Social Democratic Party 1967–1979 | |
| 1971 | ||
| 1975 | ||
| 1979 | Carl jun. Miville Social Democratic Party 1979–1991 | |
| 1983 | ||
| 1987 | ||
| 1991 |  Gian-Reto Plattner Social Democratic Party 1991–2003 | |
| 1995 | ||
| 1999 | ||
| 2003 |  Anita Fetz Social Democratic Party 2003–2019 | |
| 2007 | ||
| 2011 | ||
| 2015 | ||
| 2019 |  Eva Herzog Social Democratic Party 2019–present | |
| 2023 |
| Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1848 | Achilles Bischoff (Basel-Stadt Centre right) | 1 seat 1848–1863 | ||||||||||||||
| 1851 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1853 | Johann Jakob Stehlin (Liberal) | |||||||||||||||
| 1854 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1857 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1860 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1863 | Wilhelm Klein (FDP/PRD) | 2 seats 1863–1863 | ||||||||||||||
| 1866 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1869 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1872 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1875 | Karl Burckhardt (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1878 | Joh. Rudolf Geigy (Zent) | |||||||||||||||
| 1881 | Wilhelm Klein (FDP/PRD) | 3 seats 1881–1890 | ||||||||||||||
| 1884 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1887 | Ernst Brenner (FDP/PRD) | Eduard Eckenstein (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||||
| 1889 | Paul Speiser (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1890 | Hermann G. D. Kinkelin (FDP/PRD) | 4 seats 1890–1899 | ||||||||||||||
| 1893 | Emil Bischoff (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1896 | Isaac A. Iselin (LPS/PLS) | Eugen Wullschleger (Grut&PS*) | ||||||||||||||
| 1897 | Carl Koechlin (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1899 | Heinrich David (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1902 | Paul Speiser (LPS/PLS) | Alfred Brüstlein (SRF (BS)*) | Joh. Emil Müry (FDP/PRD) | Otto Zoller (FDP/PRD) | 6 seats 1902–1912 | |||||||||||
| 1905 | Emil Göttisheim (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1908 | Christian Rothenberger (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1911 | Carl Christoph Burckhardt (LPS/PLS) | Johannes L. Frei (SP/PS) | Bernhard Jäggi (Grut&PS) | |||||||||||||
| 1912 | Eugen Wullschleger (SP/PS) | 1 seats 1912–1947 | ||||||||||||||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1915 | Paul Speiser (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1917 | Ernst Feigenwinter (Conservative) | Rudolf Arnold Gelpke (FP*) | Karl-Oskar Schär (SD/DS) | |||||||||||||
| 1919 | Max Johann Z'graggen (Conservative) | Rudolf Miescher (LPS/PLS) | Fritz E. Hauser (SP/PS) | Friedrich Schneider (SP/PS) | Albert Belmont (SP/PS) | |||||||||||
| 1922 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1925 | Franz Welti (Communist) | |||||||||||||||
| 1928 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1929 | Victor Emil Scherer (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1931 | Albert Oeri (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1932 | Emil Arnold (Communist) | |||||||||||||||
| 1934 | Marino Bodenmann (Communist) | |||||||||||||||
| 1935 | Wilhelm Meile (Conservative) | Ernst Herzog (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Rudolf Niederhauser (Conservative) | |||||||||||||||
| 1939 | Arnold Gfeller (LDU/LdI) | Walter Muschg (LDU/LdI) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941 | Friedrich Schneider (SP/PS) | Eugen Dietschi (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||||
| 1943 | Carl Miville (SP/PS) | Nicolas Jaquet (LPS/PLS) | ||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Theodor Brogle (Conservative) | Hans Bernoulli (LDU/LdI) | Alfred Schaller (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1949 | Nicolas Jaquet (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1951 | Fritz Berger (Conservative) | Emil Arnold (PdA/PST) | Fritz Brechbühl (SP/PS) | Arnold Gfeller (LDU/LdI) | ||||||||||||
| 1953 | Marino Bodenmann (PdA/PST) | |||||||||||||||
| 1955 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Peter Dürrenmatt (LPS/PLS) | Edmund Wyss (SP/PS) | Rudolf Suter (LDU/LdI) | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Alfred Gasser (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Albin Breitenmoser (CCS) | Helmut Hubacher (SP/PS) | Walter Allgöwer (LDU/LdI) | |||||||||||||
| 1965 | Max Imboden (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Andreas Gerwig (SP/PS) | Arnold Schneider (FDP/PRD) | ||||||||||||||
| 1971 | Walter Jaeger (N) | 7 seats 1871–1983 | ||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Karl Schnyder (SP/PS) | Gertrud Spiess (CVP/PDC) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Paul Wyss (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Carl jun. Miville (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Alexander Euler (SP/PS) | David Linder (LPS/PLS) | Ruth Mascarin-Bircher (PdA/PST) | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | Hansjürg Weder (LDU/LdI) | Hugo Wick (CVP/PDC) | 6 seats 1983–2003 | 6 seats 1983–2003 | ||||||||||||
| 1985 | Anita Fetz (POCH) | |||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Martin Burckhardt (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Thomas Baerlocher (PdA/PST) | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Margrith von Felten (SP/PS) | Christoph Eymann (LPS/PLS) | Hugo Wick (CVP/PDC) | |||||||||||||
| 1994 | Stefan Cornaz (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Remo Gysin (SP/PS) | Rudolf Rechsteiner (SP/PS) | Johannes Randegger (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Christine Keller (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Jean Henri Dunant (SVP/UDC) | Anita Fetz (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Christine Wirz-von Planta (LPS/PLS) | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | 5 seats 2003-2023 | Silvia Schenker (SP/PS) | 5 seats 2003-2023 | 5 seats 2003-2023 | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | Urs Schweizer (FDP/PRD) | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Anita Lachenmeier-Thüring (GPS/PES) | Peter Malama (FDP/PRD / FDP.The Liberals) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Sebastian Frehner (SVP/UDC) | Beat Jans (SP/PS) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Markus Lehmann (CVP/PDC) | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Daniel Stolz (FDP.The Liberals) | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Sibel Arslan (BastA) | Christoph Eymann (PLD) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Sibel Arslan (GP/PV) | Katja Christ (GLP/PVL) | Mustafa Atici (SP/PS) | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 4 seats 2023-present | Sarah Wyss (SP/PS) | 4 seats 2023-present | Patricia von Falkenstein (FDP.The Liberals) | ||||||||||||
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