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This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of St. Gallen.
This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of St. Gallen.
| Councillor (Party) | Election | Councillor (Party) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm Matthias Näff Free Democratic Party 1848–1848 | Appointed | Georg Peter Friedrich Steiger Liberal Party 1848–1850 | ||
 Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1849–1849 | ||||
| Jakob Ulrich Ritter Free Democratic Party 1849–1850 | ||||
| Felix Helbling Free Democratic Party 1850–1851 | Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1850–1851 | |||
| Basil Ferdinand Curti Free Democratic Party 1851–1851 | Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1851–1852 | |||
| Jos. Felix Marin Würth Free Democratic Party 1851–1852 | ||||
| Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1853–1853 | Georg Peter Friedrich Steiger Liberal Party 1853–1853 | |||
| Johann Jakob L. Zingg Liberal Party 1853–1855 | ||||
| Carl Georg Jakob Sailer Free Democratic Party 1854–1857 | ||||
| Johann Baptist Weder Free Democratic Party 1855–1857 | ||||
| Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1857–1864 | Gallus Jakob Baumgartner Conservative 1857–1861 | |||
| Benedikt Anton Wolfgang Hoefliger Conservative 1861–1864 | ||||
| Daniel Wirth Free Democratic Party 1864–1865 | Leonhard Gmür Conservative 1864–1867 | |||
| Arnold Otto Aepli Liberal Party 1865–1872 | ||||
| Daniel Wirth Free Democratic Party 1867–1869 | ||||
| Joseph Karl Pankraz Morel Free Democratic Party 1869–1874 | ||||
| Gustav Adolf Saxer Free Democratic Party 1872–1872 | ||||
| Huldrich Arnold Seifert Liberal Party 1872–1873 | ||||
| Karl J. Hoffmann Free Democratic Party 1873–1890 | ||||
| Franz Anton Real Free Democratic Party 1874–1877 | ||||
| Nikl. Friedrich von Tschudi Liberal Party 1877–1885 | ||||
| Jakob Hermann Wartmann Liberal Party 1885–1886 | ||||
| Karl Friedrich Good Free Democratic Party 1886–1896 | ||||
| Emil Schubiger Liberal Party 1891–1896 | ||||
| Johannes G. jun. Geel Free Democratic Party 1896–1931 | H. Arthur Hoffmann Free Democratic Party 1896–1911 | |||
| Heinrich Scherrer Social Democratic Party 1911–1919 | ||||
| Anton August Messmer Conservative 1919–1935 | ||||
| Ernst Löpfe Free Democratic Party 1931–1945 | ||||
| Josef Schöbi Conservative 1935–1936 | ||||
| Johann Schmuki Conservative 1936–1957 | ||||
| Ernst Flükiger Free Democratic Party 1945–1952 | ||||
| Willi Rohner Free Democratic Party 1952–1971 | ||||
| Rudolf Mäder Christian Social Conservative Party 1957–1966 | ||||
| Paul Hofmann Christian Social Conservative Party 1966–1979 | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| Matthias Eggenberger Social Democratic Party 1971–1975 | 1971 | |||
| Paul Bürgi Free Democratic Party 1975–1987 | 1975 | |||
| 1979 | Jakob Schönenberger Christian Democratic People's Party 1979–1991 | |||
| 1983 | ||||
| Ernst Rüesch Free Democratic Party 1987–1995 | 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Paul Gemperli Christian Democratic People's Party 1991–1999 | |||
 Erika Forster-Vannini Free Democratic Party 1995–2009 FDP.The Liberals 2009–2011 | 1995 | |||
| 1999 |  Eugen David Christian Democratic People's Party 1999–2011 | |||
| 2003 | ||||
| 2007 | ||||
| 2009 | ||||
 Karin Keller-Sutter FDP.The Liberals 2011–present | 2011 |  Paul Rechsteiner Social Democratic Party 2011–2023 | ||
| 2015 | ||||
 Benedikt Würth Christian Democratic People's Party 2019–2023 The Centre 2023–present | 2019 | |||
| 2023 |  Esther Friedli FDP.The Liberals 2023–present |
| Councillor | Party | Term start | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johann Georg Anderegg | Liberal | 1848 | 1856 | |
| Joseph Leonhard Bernold | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1857 | |
| Franz Eduard Erpf | Liberal | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Dominik Gmür | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Johann Matthias Hungerbühler | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1875 | |
| Joh. Jakob Steger | Conservative | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Joseph Marzell von Hoffmann | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1866 | |
| Johann Baptist Weder | FDP/PRD | 1848 | 1851 | |
| Abraham Raschle | FDP/PRD | 1851 | 1860 | |
| Jakob Ulrich Ritter | FDP/PRD | 1851 | 1851 | |
| Christian Rohrer | Liberal | 1851 | 1860 | |
| Johann Benedikt Schubiger | FDP/PRD | 1851 | 1859 | |
| Jakob Ulrich Ritter | FDP/PRD | 1852 | 1854 | |
| Jakob Ulrich Ritter | FDP/PRD | 1855 | 1857 | |
| Johann Josef Müller | Conservative | 1856 | 1860 | |
| Josef Guldin | Conservative | 1857 | 1860 | |
| Johann Baptist Weder | FDP/PRD | 1858 | 1860 | |
| Joseph Leonhard Bernold | FDP/PRD | 1860 | 1872 | |
| Basil Ferdinand Curti | FDP/PRD | 1860 | 1866 | |
| Paravizin Hilty | FDP/PRD | 1860 | 1866 | |
| Joh. Rudolf Raschle | FDP/PRD | 1860 | 1863 | |
| Carl Georg Jakob Sailer | FDP/PRD | 1860 | 1870 | |
| Johann Baptist Weder | FDP/PRD | 1861 | 1872 | |
| Georg Friedrich Anderegg | Liberal | 1863 | 1875 | |
| Friedrich Bernet | Grut* | 1864 | 1869 | |
| Johann Baptist Gaudy | SD/DS | 1866 | 1881 | |
| G. August Suter | Grut* | 1866 | 1869 | |
| Johannes Zündt | Conservative | 1866 | 1872 | |
| Johann Ulrich Ambühl | Liberal | 1869 | 1872 | |
| Daniel Wirth | FDP/PRD | 1869 | 1878 | |
| Joh. Fridolin Müller | Conservative | 1870 | 1888 | |
| Arnold Otto Aepli | Liberal | 1872 | 1883 | |
| Johannes G. sen. Geel | Liberal | 1872 | 1875 | |
| Johann Ulrich Hafner | Liberal | 1872 | 1874 | |
| Rudolf Hilty | FDP/PRD | 1872 | 1884 | |
| Gustav Adolf Saxer | FDP/PRD | 1872 | 1878 | |
| Thomas Thoma | Liberal | 1874 | 1884 | |
| Johann Josef Huber | FDP/PRD | 1875 | 1878 | |
| Johann Joseph Keel | Conservative | 1875 | 1902 | |
| Samuel Friedrich Rikli | Conservative | 1875 | 1878 | |
| Wilhelm Good | Conservative | 1878 | 1897 | |
| Joh. Gebhard Lutz | Conservative | 1878 | 1909 | |
| Joh. Rudolf Moser | Liberal | 1878 | 1882 | |
| Karl Emil V. von Gonzenbach | Conservative | 1878 | 1884 | |
| Theodor Curti | DAP* | 1881 | 1902 | |
| Laurenz Schönenberger | Conservative | 1882 | 1890 | |
| Roderich Albert Kunkler | Liberal | 1883 | 1886 | |
| Adolf Grubenmann | Liberal | 1884 | 1890 | |
| G. August Suter | FDP/PRD | 1884 | 1890 | |
| Christoph Tobler | Liberal | 1884 | 1899 | |
| Joh. Jakob Müller | FDP/PRD | 1886 | 1887 | |
| Johannes Blumer | FDP/PRD | 1887 | 1893 | |
| Jos. Othmar Staub | Conservative | 1888 | 1919 | |
| Johann Georg Berlinger | FDP/PRD | 1890 | 1900 | |
| Carl Hilty | FDP/PRD | 1890 | 1909 | |
| Joseph Anton Scherrer-Füllemann | SD/DS | 1890 | 1922 | |
| Johann Bapt. Schubiger | Conservative | 1890 | 1919 | |
| Eduard Steiger | SD/DS | 1891 | 1896 | |
| Karl Emil Wild | FDP/PRD | 1893 | 1919 | |
| J. K. Ferdinand Hidber | Conservative | 1898 | 1905 | |
| Johann Jakob Gächter | Conservative | 1899 | 1905 | |
| Ernst Wagner | FDP/PRD | 1900 | 1919 | |
| Johann Jakob Bösch | FDP/PRD | 1902 | 1908 | |
| Paul J. Brandt | DAP* | 1902 | 1905 | |
| Thomas Holenstein | Conservative | 1902 | 1928 | |
| Heinrich Scherrer | SP/PS | 1902 | 1911 | |
| Emil Grünenfelder | Conservative | 1905 | 1943 | |
| Albert Mächler | FDP/PRD | 1905 | 1934 | |
| Karl A. Zurburg | Conservative | 1905 | 1925 | |
| Robert Forrer | FDP/PRD | 1908 | 1924 | |
| Johann B. Eisenring | Conservative | 1909 | 1919 | |
| Gallus Schwendener | FDP/PRD | 1909 | 1919 | |
| Eduard Scherrer | FDP/PRD | 1911 | 1919 | |
| Ernst Schmidheiny | FDP/PRD | 1911 | 1919 | |
| Heinrich Otto Weber | SD/DS | 1911 | 1928 | |
| Johannes Duft | Conservative | 1919 | 1939 | |
| Johann Jakob Gabathuler | FDP/PRD | 1919 | 1929 | |
| Johannes Huber | SP/PS | 1919 | 1947 | |
| Valentin Keel | SP/PS | 1919 | 1931 | |
| Joseph Anton Scherrer-Brisig | Conservative | 1919 | 1951 | |
| L. August Schirmer | FDP/PRD | 1919 | 1941 | |
| Jakob-Dionys Steiner | Conservative | 1919 | 1928 | |
| Johannes Züblin | FDP/PRD | 1919 | 1925 | |
| Johann-Jakob Biroll | Conservative | 1922 | 1931 | |
| Anton Brügger | FDP/PRD | 1924 | 1931 | |
| Jakob Fenk | SP/PS | 1925 | 1947 | |
| Bruno Pfister | FDP/PRD | 1925 | 1935 | |
| Eduard Guntli | Conservative | 1928 | 1933 | |
| Emil Mäder | Conservative | 1928 | 1936 | |
| Paul Müller | Conservative | 1928 | 1935 | |
| Friedrich Pestalozzi | FDP/PRD | 1929 | 1933 | |
| Emil Hardegger | SP/PS | 1931 | 1935 | |
| Albert Geser | Conservative | 1933 | 1935 | |
| Arnold Saxer | FDP/PRD | 1933 | 1938 | |
| Jakob Schmidheiny | FDP/PRD | 1934 | 1935 | |
| Ulrich Eggenberger | LDU/LdI | 1935 | 1939 | |
| Johann Jakob Gabathuler | FDP/PRD | 1935 | 1947 | |
| Johannes Müller | Conservative | 1935 | 1937 | |
| Jakob Nüesch | AVL | 1935 | 1939 | |
| Ludwig Rittmeyer | FDP/PRD | 1935 | 1944 | |
| Otto Huber | Conservative | 1936 | 1939 | |
| Thomas Holenstein | Conservative | 1937 | 1954 | |
| Bruno Pfister | FDP/PRD | 1938 | 1939 | |
| Gallus Eugster | Conservative | 1939 | 1959 | |
| Arnold Kappler | Conservative | 1939 | 1947 | |
| Karl Kobelt | FDP/PRD | 1939 | 1940 | |
| Otto Pfändler | LDU/LdI | 1939 | 1943 | |
| Josef Riedener | Conservative | 1939 | 1947 | |
| Rolf Theodor Bühler | FDP/PRD | 1941 | 1943 | |
| Alfred Baumgartner | FDP/PRD | 1942 | 1944 | |
| Emil Anderegg | FDP/PRD | 1943 | 1951 | |
| Ulrich Eggenberger | LDU/LdI | 1943 | 1946 | |
| Albert Spindler | JB | 1943 | 1947 | |
| Rolf Theodor Bühler | FDP/PRD | 1944 | 1947 | |
| Johann Jakob Schwendener | FDP/PRD | 1944 | 1951 | |
| Christian Eggenberger | LDU/LdI | 1946 | 1951 | |
| Matthias Eggenberger | SP/PS | 1947 | 1971 | |
| Theodor Eisenring | Conservative | 1947 | 1961 | |
| Albert Gemperli | Conservative | 1947 | 1963 | |
| Harald Huber | SP/PS | 1947 | 1962 | |
| Jean Pozzi | FDP/PRD | 1947 | 1959 | |
| Alfons Schwizer | Conservative | 1947 | 1963 | |
| Andreas Zeller | FDP/PRD | 1947 | 1951 | |
| Emil Bösch | LDU/LdI | 1951 | 1963 | |
| René Bühler | FDP/PRD | 1951 | 1959 | |
| Johann Jakob Gabathuler | FDP/PRD | 1951 | 1951 | |
| Walter Klingler | Conservative | 1951 | 1955 | |
| Willi Rohner | FDP/PRD | 1951 | 1952 | |
| Michael Schwendener | FDP/PRD | 1951 | 1963 | |
| Hans Albrecht | FDP/PRD | 1952 | 1959 | |
| Kurt Furgler | Conservative | 1954 | 1971 | |
| Andreas Zeller | Conservative | 1955 | 1970 | |
| Paul Bürgi | FDP/PRD | 1959 | 1975 | |
| Ernst Grob | FDP/PRD | 1959 | 1971 | |
| Walter Klingler | CCS | 1959 | 1967 | |
| Max Schmidheiny | FDP/PRD | 1959 | 1963 | |
| Anton Stadler | CCS | 1961 | 1963 | |
| Remigius Bärlocher | CCS | 1963 | 1971 | |
| Simon Frick | FDP/PRD | 1963 | 1967 | |
| Walter Gerosa | LDU/LdI | 1963 | 1971 | |
| Walter Hagmann | CCS | 1963 | 1975 | |
| Alfred Hummler | FDP/PRD | 1963 | 1971 | |
| Hans Schregenberger | CCS | 1963 | 1971 | |
| Florian Vetsch | SP/PS | 1963 | 1969 | |
| Hans Hofer | FDP/PRD | 1967 | 1975 | |
| Anton Stadler | CCS | 1967 | 1975 | |
| Florian Schlegel | SP/PS | 1969 | 1972 | |
| Andreas Dürr | CCS | 1970 | 1983 | |
| Georg Nef | FDP/PRD | 1971 | 1987 | |
| Edgar Oehler | CVP/PDC | 1971 | 1995 | |
| Hanna Sahlfeld-Singer | SP/PS | 1971 | 1975 | |
| Hanny Thalmann | CVP/PDC | 1971 | 1979 | |
| Remigius Kaufmann | CVP/PDC | 1972 | 1983 | |
| Hans Schmid | SP/PS | 1972 | 1985 | |
| Kurt Bürer | CVP/PDC | 1975 | 1987 | |
| Traugott Hungerbühler | CVP/PDC | 1975 | 1979 | |
| Ruedi Schatz | FDP/PRD | 1975 | 1979 | |
| Burkhard Vetsch | FDP/PRD | 1975 | 1984 | |
| Walter Ammann | SP/PS | 1976 | 1991 | |
| Susi Eppenberger | FDP/PRD | 1979 | 1991 | |
| Josef Kühne | CVP/PDC | 1979 | 1995 | |
| Eva Segmüller | CVP/PDC | 1979 | 1995 | |
| Titus Giger | FDP/PRD | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Hans Ruckstuhl | CVP/PDC | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Walter Zwingli | FDP/PRD | 1984 | 1991 | |
| Hans Rohrer | SP/PS | 1985 | 1986 | |
| Paul Rechsteiner | SP/PS | 1986 | 1995 | |
| Eugen David | CVP/PDC | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Hans Werner Widrig | CVP/PDC | 1987 | 1991 | |
| Elisabeth Caspar-Hutter | SP/PS | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Pia Hollenstein | GPS/PES | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Franz Jaeger | LDU/LdI | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Walter Steinemann | 0 | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Milli Wittenwiler | FDP/PRD | 1991 | 1995 | |
| Fredi Alder | SP/PS | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Toni Brunner | SVP/UDC | 1995 | Incumbent | |
| Eugen David | CVP/PDC | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Barbara Eberhard-Halter | LDU/LdI | 1995 | 1995 | |
| Kathrin Hilber | SP/PS | 1995 | 1996 | |
| Pia Hollenstein | GPS/PES | 1995 | 2006 | |
| Josef Kühne | CVP/PDC | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Paul Rechsteiner | SP/PS | 1995 | 2011 | |
| Hans Ruckstuhl | CVP/PDC | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Walter Steinemann | 0 | 1995 | 1999 | |
| Peter Weigelt | FDP/PRD | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Hans Werner Widrig | CVP/PDC | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Milli Wittenwiler | FDP/PRD | 1995 | 2003 | |
| Hildegard Fässler-Osterwalder | SP/PS | 1997 | 2003 | |
| Elmar Bigger | SVP/UDC | 1999 | 2011 | |
| Walter Hess | CVP/PDC | 1999 | 2003 | |
| Lucrezia Meier-Schatz | CVP/PDC | 1999 | 2015 | |
| Theophil Pfister | SVP/UDC | 1999 | 2011 | |
| Felix Walker | CVP/PDC | 1999 | 2006 | |
| Jakob Büchler | CVP/PDC | 2003 | 2018 | |
| Hildegard Fässler-Osterwalder | SP/PS | 2003 | 2013 | |
| Jasmin Hutter | SVP/UDC | 2003 | 2009 | |
| Walter Müller | FDP/PRD | 2003 | Incumbent | |
| Peter Weigelt | FDP/PRD | 2003 | 2006 | |
| Urs Bernhardsgrütter | GPS/PES | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Thomas Müller | CVP/PDC | 2006 | Incumbent | |
| Andreas Zeller | FDP/PRD | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Yvonne Gilli | GPS/PES | 2007 | 2015 | |
| Lukas Reimann | SVP/UDC | 2007 | Incumbent | |
| Roland Rino Büchel | SVP/UDC | 2010 | Incumbent | |
| Barbara Gysi | SP/PS | 2011 | Incumbent | |
| Margrit Kessler | GLP/PVL | 2011 | 2015 | |
| Markus Ritter | CVP/PDC | 2011 | Incumbent | |
| Claudia Friedl | SP/PS | 2013 | Incumbent | |
| Thomas Ammann | CVP/PDC | 2015 | Incumbent | |
| Marcel Dobler | FDP/PLR | 2015 | Incumbent | |
| Barbara Keller-Inhelder | SVP/UDC | 2015 | Incumbent | |
| Nicolo Paganini | CVP/PDC | 2018 | Incumbent |
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