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List of members of the Swiss Council of States (2011–2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ523426 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of members of the Swiss Council of States of the 49th legislature (2011-2015). Most members were elected in the 2011 election.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of members of the Swiss Council of States (2011–2015)” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, members and Swiss, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, members and Swiss is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q523426. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of members of the Swiss Council of States (2011–2015)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.