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This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Geneva.
This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Geneva.
| Councillor (Party) | Election | Councillor (Party) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antoine Carteret Free Democratic Party 1848–1849 | Appointed |  James Fazy Free Democratic Party 1848–1849 | ||
| Jean-Henri Duchosal Free Democratic Party 1849–1850 | Abraham-L. Tourte Free Democratic Party 1849–1851 | |||
| Philippe Camperio Free Democratic Party 1850–1851 | ||||
| Jean-Henri Duchosal Free Democratic Party 1851–1853 | James Fazy Free Democratic Party 1851–1854 | |||
| Jean-Adolphe-Ch. Fontanel Free Democratic Party 1853–1853 | ||||
| Joseph Girard Free Democratic Party 1854–1854 | ||||
| A.-Théodore Lissignol Free Democratic Party 1854–1855 | Théodore-Ami Piguet Indépendant (rad.diss.) (GE) 1854–1855 | |||
| François-Jules Pictet Independent 1856–1856 | ||||
| James Fazy Free Democratic Party 1856–1857 | Carl-Ch. Vogt Free Democratic Party 1856–1861 | |||
| Jules-J.-F.-M. Vuy Free Democratic Party 1857–1859 | ||||
| Alexandre Félix Alméras Free Democratic Party 1860–1862 | ||||
| Moïse Vautier Free Democratic Party 1861–1862 | ||||
| Charles-M. Friderich Free Democratic Party 1863–1863 | ||||
| Philippe Camperio Free Democratic Party 1863–1866 | Guillaume-Henri Dufour Conservative 1863–1866 | |||
| Jean Ch., dit John Braillard Free Democratic Party 1866–1869 | Auguste-E. Turrettini Liberal Party 1866–1870 | |||
| Philippe Camperio Free Democratic Party 1869–1870 | ||||
| Carl-Ch. Vogt Free Democratic Party 1870–1871 | Gaspard-J. Zurlinden Free Democratic Party 1870–1872 | |||
| James Fazy Free Democratic Party 1871–1872 | ||||
| Charles-Amédée Girod Party unknown 1872–1872 | ||||
| Emile Cambessedès Free Democratic Party 1872–1875 | J.-H.-Alfred Vaucher Free Democratic Party 1872–1876 | |||
| B.-Benjamin Dufernex Free Democratic Party 1875–1878 | ||||
| J.-Pierre Moriaud Free Democratic Party 1876–1878 | ||||
| Gustave Ador Swiss Democrats 1878–1880 | J.-M.-Albert Wessel Liberal Party 1878–1880 | |||
| Georges-S. Favon Free Democratic Party 1880–1881 | Moïse Vautier Free Democratic Party 1880–1881 | |||
| B.-Benjamin Dufernex Free Democratic Party 1881–1883 | L. Adrien Lachenal Free Democratic Party 1881–1884 | |||
| Marc Héridier Free Democratic Party 1883–1884 | ||||
| P.-Alexandre Gavard Free Democratic Party 1884–1891 | J.-Pierre Moriaud Free Democratic Party 1884–1890 | |||
| Frédéric-P. Raisin Liberal Party 1890–1892 | ||||
| A.-Edouard Odier Liberal Party 1891–1892 | ||||
| Eberhard A. Binder Free Democratic Party 1892–1893 | Marc Héridier Free Democratic Party 1892–1893 | |||
| A.-Edouard Odier Liberal Party 1893–1896 | M.-Eugène Richard Liberal Party 1893–1914 | |||
| P.-Alexandre Gavard Free Democratic Party 1896–1898 | ||||
| M.-Eugène Ritzchel Free Democratic Party 1899–1899 | ||||
| L. Adrien Lachenal Free Democratic Party 1900–1918 | ||||
| Jacques-S. Rutty Liberal Party 1914–1922 | ||||
| G.-Ph.-Henri Fazy Free Democratic Party 1918–1920 | ||||
| Jean-C. Sigg Independent 1921–1922 | ||||
| Charles Burklin Social Democratic Party 1922–1928 | Alexandre Moriaud Free Democratic Party 1922–1931 | |||
| Jean-Martin Naef Union de défense économique (GE) 1928–1931 | ||||
| Charles Burklin Social Democratic Party 1931–1932 | Albert Malche Free Democratic Party 1931–1951 | |||
| Auguste-Edouard-Frédéric Martin Liberal Party 1933–1942 | ||||
| Albert-Gustave Pictet Liberal Party 1942–1947 | ||||
| Marcel Raisin Liberal Party 1947–1949 | ||||
| Albert-Edouard Picot Liberal Party 1949–1955 | ||||
| 1951 |  Adrien Lachenal Free Democratic Party 1951–1955 | |||
| Victor Gautier Liberal Party 1955–1963 | 1955 | François Perréard Free Democratic Party 1955–1963 | ||
| 1959 | ||||
| Eric Choisy Liberal Party 1963–1971 | 1963 | Alfred Borel Free Democratic Party 1963–1971 | ||
| 1967 | ||||
| Olivier Reverdin Liberal Party 1971–1979 | 1971 | Lise Girardin Free Democratic Party 1971–1975 | ||
| 1975 | Willy Donzé Social Democratic Party 1975–1983 | |||
| Monique Bauer-Lagier Liberal Party 1979–1987 | 1979 | |||
| 1983 | Robert Ducret Free Democratic Party 1983–1991 | |||
| André Gautier Liberal Party 1987–1991 | 1987 | |||
| Gilbert Coutau Liberal Party 1991–1995 | 1991 | Gilles Petitpierre Free Democratic Party 1991–1995 | ||
 Christiane Brunner Social Democratic Party 1995–2007 | 1995 |  Françoise Saudan Free Democratic Party 1995–2007 | ||
| 1999 | ||||
| 2003 | ||||
 Liliane Maury Pasquier Social Democratic Party 2007–present | 2007 |  Robert Cramer Green Party 2007–2019 | ||
| 2011 | ||||
| 2015 | ||||
 Carlo Sommaruga Social Democratic Party 2019–present | 2019 |  Lisa Mazzone Green Party 2019–2023 | ||
| 2023 |  Mauro Poggia Geneva Citizens' Movement 2023–present |
| Councillor | Party | Term start | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Félix Alméras | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1854 | |
| Jean-Jacques Castoldi | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Joseph Girard | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Philippe Camperio | FDP/PRD | 1851 | 1863 | |
| Abraham-L. Tourte | FDP/PRD | 1851 | 1854 | |
| Jean-Jacques Darier | Conservative | 1854 | 1857 | |
| Guillaume-Henri Dufour | Conservative | 1854 | 1857 | |
| Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel | FDP/PRD | 1857 | 1864 | |
| James Fazy | FDP/PRD | 1857 | 1866 | |
| Moïse Vautier | FDP/PRD | 1863 | 1866 | |
| Jules-J.-F.-M. Vuy | FDP/PRD | 1863 | 1866 | |
| Charles-M. Friderich | FDP/PRD | 1864 | 1872 | |
| Philippe Camperio | FDP/PRD | 1866 | 1869 | |
| François-Jules Pictet | Ind. | 1866 | 1872 | |
| J.-M.-Albert Wessel | LPS/PLS | 1866 | 1869 | |
| Antoine Carteret | FDP/PRD | 1869 | 1878 | |
| Moïse Vautier | FDP/PRD | 1869 | 1878 | |
| Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel | FDP/PRD | 1872 | 1878 | |
| Gustave-Jules Pictet | Ind. | 1872 | 1874 | |
| Charles-L. Chalumeau | FDP/PRD | 1875 | 1878 | |
| Arthur Chenevière | Conservative | 1878 | 1884 | |
| G.-François-Isaac Mayor | FDP/PRD | 1878 | 1881 | |
| Gustave-Jules Pictet | Ind. | 1878 | 1881 | |
| Carl-Ch. Vogt | FDP/PRD | 1878 | 1881 | |
| Antoine Carteret | FDP/PRD | 1881 | 1889 | |
| Georges-S. Favon | FDP/PRD | 1881 | 1893 | |
| J.-Pierre Moriaud | FDP/PRD | 1881 | 1884 | |
| Moïse Vautier | FDP/PRD | 1881 | 1884 | |
| Jean-Etienne Dufour | LPS/PLS | 1884 | 1893 | |
| L. Adrien Lachenal | FDP/PRD | 1884 | 1892 | |
| Gustave-Jules Pictet | Ind. | 1884 | 1887 | |
| P.-M. Ernest Pictet | LPS/PLS | 1887 | 1890 | |
| Gustave Ador | LPS/PLS | 1889 | 1902 | |
| M.-Eugène Richard | LPS/PLS | 1890 | 1893 | |
| Louis Charrière | FDP/PRD | 1893 | 1896 | |
| P.-M. Ernest Pictet | LPS/PLS | 1893 | 1893 | |
| F.-Alexandre Ramu | LPS/PLS | 1893 | 1896 | |
| Jacques-S. Rutty | LPS/PLS | 1893 | 1896 | |
| Georges-S. Favon | FDP/PRD | 1894 | 1902 | |
| G.-Ph.-Henri Fazy | FDP/PRD | 1896 | 1899 | |
| Alfred-L. Vincent | FDP/PRD | 1896 | 1906 | |
| A.-Edouard Odier | LPS/PLS | 1897 | 1899 | |
| M.-Eugène Ritzchel | FDP/PRD | 1899 | 1902 | |
| Alexandre Triquet | FDP/PRD | 1899 | 1902 | |
| Gustave Ador | LPS/PLS | 1902 | 1917 | |
| Marc-Joseph Bonnet | FDP/PRD | 1902 | 1908 | |
| G.-Ph.-Henri Fazy | FDP/PRD | 1902 | 1918 | |
| J.-P.-Théodore Fontana | Conservative | 1902 | 1907 | |
| A.-Edouard Odier | LPS/PLS | 1902 | 1906 | |
| Jacques-S. Rutty | LPS/PLS | 1902 | 1911 | |
| M.-Eugène Ritzchel | FDP/PRD | 1906 | 1908 | |
| Thédore-E.-B. Turrettini | LPS/PLS | 1906 | 1911 | |
| Alfred P. W. Georg | LPS/PLS | 1907 | 1911 | |
| François Besson | FDP/PRD | 1908 | 1910 | |
| Jules-F. Perréard | FDP/PRD | 1908 | 1911 | |
| M.-Eugène Ritzchel | FDP/PRD | 1910 | 1914 | |
| Victor-Marc Charbonnet | FDP/PRD | 1911 | 1914 | |
| L.-Firmin Ody | Conservative | 1911 | 1920 | |
| Marc-Ernest Peter | FDP/PRD | 1911 | 1919 | |
| Jean-C. Sigg | SP/PS | 1911 | 1919 | |
| J.-Louis Willemin | FDP/PRD | 1911 | 1917 | |
| Albert-Edouard Maunoir | LPS/PLS | 1914 | 1929 | |
| Horace Micheli | LPS/PLS | 1914 | 1919 | |
| Frédéric-Jules De Rabours | LPS/PLS | 1917 | 1925 | |
| John-Marc Rochaix | FDP/PRD | 1917 | 1943 | |
| Edouard Ch. Steinmetz | LPS/PLS | 1918 | 1919 | |
| Léon Nicole | SP/PS | 1919 | 1941 | |
| Emile Nicolet | SP/PS | 1919 | 1921 | |
| B.-Marius Stoessel | FDP/PRD | 1919 | 1922 | |
| Jules-Edouard Gottret | Conservative | 1920 | 1947 | |
| J.-Louis Willemin | FDP/PRD | 1920 | 1922 | |
| Jacques Dicker | SP/PS | 1922 | 1925 | |
| Ernest Joray | SP/PS | 1922 | 1922 | |
| Adrien Lachenal | FDP/PRD | 1922 | 1951 | |
| Horace Micheli | LPS/PLS | 1922 | 1928 | |
| Charles Rosselet | SP/PS | 1922 | 1945 | |
| Paul Logoz | UDE | 1925 | 1930 | |
| Albert-Louis Naine | SP/PS | 1925 | 1928 | |
| Frédéric-Jules De Rabours | LPS/PLS | 1928 | 1928 | |
| Jacques Dicker | SP/PS | 1928 | 1941 | |
| François-Jules Micheli | LPS/PLS | 1928 | 1929 | |
| Gabriel Bonnet | LPS/PLS | 1929 | 1931 | |
| Frédéric-Jules De Rabours | LPS/PLS | 1929 | 1929 | |
| Edouard Ch. Steinmetz | LPS/PLS | 1929 | 1935 | |
| David Revaclier | UDE | 1931 | 1931 | |
| François Joseph Rossiaud | SP/PS | 1931 | 1933 | |
| André Ehrler | SP/PS | 1933 | 1933 | |
| François Joseph Rossiaud | SP/PS | 1934 | 1935 | |
| Théodore Aubert | LPS/PLS | 1935 | 1939 | |
| Albert-Edouard Picot | LPS/PLS | 1935 | 1949 | |
| François Perréard | FDP/PRD | 1939 | 1955 | |
| Georges-Paul Randon | FDP/PRD | 1941 | 1942 | |
| William Rappard | LDU/LdI | 1941 | 1943 | |
| Georges Haldenwang | LPS/PLS | 1942 | 1943 | |
| Aymon de Senarclens | LPS/PLS | 1943 | 1955 | |
| André Guinand | FDP/PRD | 1943 | 1963 | |
| Antoine Pugin | Conservative | 1943 | 1947 | |
| André Oltramare | SP/PS | 1946 | 1947 | |
| Fernand Cottier | Conservative | 1947 | 1959 | |
| Marius Maillard | SP/PS | 1947 | 1947 | |
| Léon Nicole | PdA/PST | 1947 | 1955 | |
| Jean Vincent | PdA/PST | 1947 | 1980 | |
| Raymond Deonna | LPS/PLS | 1949 | 1951 | |
| Georges Borel | SP/PS | 1951 | 1967 | |
| Alfred Borel | FDP/PRD | 1951 | 1963 | |
| Charles Primborgne | Conservative | 1955 | 1975 | |
| François Revaclier | FDP/PRD | 1955 | 1971 | |
| Olivier Reverdin | LPS/PLS | 1955 | 1971 | |
| Raymond Bertholet | SP/PS | 1963 | 1967 | |
| Raymond Deonna | LPS/PLS | 1963 | 1972 | |
| Yves Maitre | CCS | 1963 | 1966 | |
| Henri Schmitt | FDP/PRD | 1963 | 1975 | |
| Jean Babel | CCS | 1966 | 1967 | |
| André Chavanne | SP/PS | 1967 | 1977 | |
| Roger Dafflon | PdA/PST | 1967 | 1984 | |
| Alfred Gehrig | LDU/LdI | 1967 | 1971 | |
| Jean Ziegler | SP/PS | 1967 | 1983 | |
| Fernand Corbat | FDP/PRD | 1971 | 1979 | |
| Guy Fontanet | CVP/PDC | 1971 | 1978 | |
| François Peyrot | LPS/PLS | 1971 | 1975 | |
| Nelly Wicky | PdA/PST | 1971 | 1975 | |
| André Gautier | LPS/PLS | 1972 | 1987 | |
| Monique Bauer-Lagier | LPS/PLS | 1975 | 1979 | |
| Gilbert Duboule | FDP/PRD | 1975 | 1983 | |
| Christian Grobet | SP/PS | 1975 | 1982 | |
| Amélia Christinat | SP/PS | 1978 | 1987 | |
| Robert Tochon | CVP/PDC | 1978 | 1983 | |
| Gilbert Coutau | LPS/PLS | 1979 | 1991 | |
| Gilles Petitpierre | FDP/PRD | 1979 | 1991 | |
| Armand Magnin | PdA/PST | 1981 | 1987 | |
| René Longet | SP/PS | 1982 | 1991 | |
| Jacques-Simon Eggly | LPS/PLS | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Jean-Philippe Maitre | CVP/PDC | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Laurent Rebeaud | GPS/PES | 1983 | 1994 | |
| Jean Revaclier | FDP/PRD | 1983 | 1987 | |
| Mario Soldini | Vig./GE | 1986 | 1987 | |
| Dominique Ducret | CVP/PDC | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Jean-Michel Gros | LPS/PLS | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Guy-Olivier Segond | FDP/PRD | 1987 | 1990 | |
| Jean Spielmann | PdA/PST | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Jean Ziegler | SP/PS | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Jean Revaclier | FDP/PRD | 1990 | 1991 | |
| Christiane Brunner | SP/PS | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Jean-Nils de Dardel | SP/PS | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Charles Poncet | LPS/PLS | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Peter Tschopp | FDP/PRD | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Fabienne Bugnon | GPS/PES | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Jean-Nils de Dardel | SP/PS | 1995 | 2003 | |
| John Dupraz | FDP/PRD | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Jacques-Simon Eggly | LPS/PLS | 1995 | 2007 | |
| Christian Grobet | 0 | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Jean-Michel Gros | LPS/PLS | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Jean-Philippe Maitre | CVP/PDC | 1995 | 2005 | |
| Liliane Maury Pasquier | SP/PS | 1995 | 2007 | |
| Maria Roth-Bernasconi | SP/PS | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Jean Spielmann | PdA/PST | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Peter Tschopp | FDP/PRD | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Jean Ziegler | SP/PS | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Madeleine Bernasconi | FDP/PRD | 1999 | 2003 | |
| Patrice Mugny | GPS/PES | 1999 | 2003 | |
| Barbara Polla | LPS/PLS | 1999 | 2003 | |
| Jean-Claude Vaudroz | CVP/PDC | 1999 | 2003 | |
| Martine Brunschwig Graf | LPS/PLS | 2003 | 2011 | |
| John Dupraz | FDP/PRD | 2003 | 2007 | |
| Ueli Leuenberger | GPS/PES | 2003 | 2015 | |
| Jacques Pagan | SVP/UDC | 2003 | 2007 | |
| André Reymond | SVP/UDC | 2003 | 2007 | |
| Maria Roth-Bernasconi | SP/PS | 2003 | 2015 | |
| Carlo Sommaruga | SP/PS | 2003 | 2023 | |
| Pierre Vanek | AdG | 2003 | 2007 | |
| Luc Barthassat | CVP/PDC | 2005 | 2013 | |
| Hugues Hiltpold | FDP/PRD | 2007 | 2023 | |
| Antonio Hodgers | GPS/PES | 2007 | 2013 | |
| Christian Lüscher | LPS/PLS | 2007 | 2023 | |
| Yves Nidegger | SVP/UDC | 2007 | 2023 | |
| André Reymond | SVP/UDC | 2007 | 2011 | |
| Jean-Charles Rielle | SP/PS | 2007 | 2011 | |
| Céline Amaudruz | SVP/UDC | 2011 | Incumbent | |
| Mauro Poggia | MCR | 2011 | 2013 | |
| Manuel Tornare | SP/PS | 2011 | 2023 | |
| Guillaume Barazzone | CVP/PDC | 2013 | 2023 | |
| Roger Golay | MCR | 2013 | 2023 | |
| Anne Mahrer | GPS/PES | 2013 | 2015 | |
| Laurence Fehlmann Rielle | SP/PS | 2015 | 2023 | |
| Benoît Genecand | FDP/PLR | 2015 | 2023 | |
| Lisa Mazzone | GPS/PES | 2015 | 2023 | |
| Delphine Klopfenstein Broggini | GPS/PES | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Nicolas Walder | GPS/PES | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Vincent Maitre | The Centre | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Christian Dandrès | SP/PS | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Laurence Fehlmann Rielle | SP/PS | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Simone De Montmollin | FDP/PLR | 2019 | Incumbent | |
| Charles Poncet | SVP/UDC | 2023 | Incumbent | |
| Cyril Aellen | FDP/PLR | 2023 | Incumbent | |
| Estelle Revaz | SP/PS | 2023 | Incumbent | |
| Mauro Poggia | MCR | 2023 | Incumbent | |
| Roger Golay | MCR | 2023 | Incumbent |
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