Editing Basel (section)

== Politics ==
The city of Basel functions as the capital of the [[Cantons of Switzerland|Swiss half-canton]] of [[Basel-Stadt]].

=== Canton ===
The canton Basel-Stadt consists of three municipalities: [[Riehen]], [[Bettingen]], and the city Basel itself. The political structure and agencies of the city and the canton are identical.

=== City ===

==== Quarters ====
The city itself has 19 quarters:

* ''Grossbasel'' (Greater Basel):

{{div col|colwidth=14em}}
:1 Altstadt Grossbasel
:2 Vorstädte
:3 Am Ring
:4 Breite
:5 St. Alban
:6 [[Gundeldingen]]
:7 Bruderholz
:8 Bachletten
:9 Gotthelf
:10 Iselin
:11 St. Johann
{{div col end}}

* ''Kleinbasel'' (Lesser Basel):

{{div col|colwidth=14em}}
:12 Altstadt Kleinbasel
:13 Clara
:14 Wettstein
:15 Hirzbrunnen
:16 Rosental
:17 Matthäus
:18 Klybeck
:19 Kleinhüningen
{{div col end}}

=== Government ===
The city's and canton's executive, the Executive Council (''Regierungsrat''), consists of seven members for a mandate period of 4 years. They are elected by any inhabitant valid to vote on the same day as the parliament,{{clarify|date=August 2018}} but by means of a system of [[Majorz]],{{clarify|date=August 2018}} and operates as a [[collegiate authority]]. The president ({{langx|de|link=no|Regierungspräsident(in)}}) is elected as such by a public election, while the heads of the other departments are appointed by the collegiate. The current president is [[Beat Jans]]. The executive body holds its meetings in the red [[Basel Town Hall|Town Hall]] ({{langx|de|link=no|Rathaus}}) on the central ''Marktplatz''. The building was built in 1504–14.

{{As of|2021}}, Basel's Executive Council is made up of three representatives of the SP ([[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party]]) including the president, two LDP ([[Liberal-Demokratische Partei of Basel]]), and one member each of [[Green Liberal Party of Switzerland|Green Liberals (glp)]], and CVP ([[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|Christian Democratic Party]]).<ref name=Regrat>{{cite web |url=http://www.regierungsrat.bs.ch/mitglieder.html |title=Mitglieder |publisher=Regierungsrat des Kantons Basel-Stadt |location=Basel |type=official site |date=2021 |language=de |access-date=2021-10-25 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231213221/http://www.regierungsrat.bs.ch/mitglieder.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The last election was held on 25 October and 29 November 2020 and four new members have been elected.<ref name=Elect20/>

{|class="wikitable"
|+ The ''Regierungsrat'' of Basel<ref name=Regrat/> for the mandate period 2021–25
! Councillor (''Regierungsrat/ -rätin'') !! Party !! Head of Office (''Departement'', since) of !! 
elected since
|-
| [[Beat Jans]]<ref group=RR>President (''Regierungspräsident'')</ref> || {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} SP || President's Office (''Präsidialdepartement (PD)'', 2021) || 2020
|-
|[[Tanja Soland]]|| {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} SP || Finance (''Finanzdepartement (FD)'')|| 2019
|-
| [[Stephanie Eymann]]|| {{color box|#3265FF|border=silver}} LDP || Justice and Security (''Justiz- und Sicherheitsdepartement (JSD)'', 2021) || 2020
|-
| [[Kaspar Sutter]]|| {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} SP || Economics, Social Services, and Environment (''Departement für Wirtschaft, Soziales und Umwelt (WSU)'', 2021) || 2020
|-
| [[Conradin Cramer]] || {{color box|#3265FF|border=silver}} LDP || Education (''Erziehungsdepartement (ED)'', 2017) || 2016
|-
| [[Esther Keller]]|| {{color box|{{party color|Green Liberal Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} glp || Construction and Transportation (''Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement (BVD)'', 2021) || 2020
|-
| [[Lukas Engelberger]]|| {{color box|{{party color|Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} CVP || Health (''Gesundheitsdepartement (GD)'', June 2014) || June 2014
|}
{{reflist|group=RR}}

Barbara Schüpbach-Guggenbühlis is State Chronicler (''Staatsschreiberin'') since 2009, and Marco Greiner is Head of Communication (''Regierungssprecher'') and Vice State Chronicler (''Vizestaatsschreiber'') since 2007 for the Executive Council.

=== Parliament ===
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The city's and canton's parliament, the [[Grand Council of Basel-Stadt]] ('''Grosser Rat'''), consists of 100 seats, with members (called in German: ''Grossrat/Grossrätin'') elected every 4 years. The sessions of the Grand Council are public. Unlike the members of the Executive Council, the members of the Grand Council are not politicians by profession, but they are paid a fee based on their attendance. Any resident of Basel allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the parliament. The delegates are elected by means of a system of [[Proportional representation|Proporz]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grosserrat.bs.ch/parlament/wahlen/proporz |title=Proporzwahl |type=official site |publisher=Grosser Rat des Kantons Basel-Stadt |language=de |location=Basel |access-date=2021-10-25}}</ref> The legislative body holds its meetings in the red Town Hall (''Rathaus'').

The last election was held on 25 October 2020 for the mandate period (''Legislatur'') of 2021–2025.<ref name=Elect20>{{cite web |url=https://www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch/politische-rechte/wahlen-abstimmungen/resultate-archiv/wahlen-2020.html |title=Wahlen 2020 |type=official site |publisher=Staatskanzlei, Kanton Basel-Stadt |language=de |location=Basel |access-date=2021-10-25 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160708/https://www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch/politische-rechte/wahlen-abstimmungen/resultate-archiv/wahlen-2020.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of|2021|02|01}}, the Grand Council consist of 30 (−5) members of the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party (SP)]], 18 (+5) ''Grün-Alternatives Bündnis (GAB)'' (a collaboration of the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party (GPS)]], its junior party, and [[Basels starke Alternative]] (BastA!)), 14 (−1) [[Liberal-Demokratische Partei of Basel|Liberal-Demokratische Partei (LDP)]], 11 (−4) members of the [[Swiss People's Party]] (SVP), 8 (+5) [[Green Liberal Party of Switzerland|Green Liberal Party (glp)]], 7 (−3) [[FDP.The Liberals|The Liberals (FDP)]], 7 (-) [[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP)]], 3 (+2) [[Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland|Evangelical People's Party (EVP)]], and one each representative of the ''Aktive Bettingen (AB)'' and ''Volks-Aktion gegen zuviele Ausländer und Asylanten in unserer Heimat'' (VA).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grosserrat.bs.ch/de/mitglieder-gremien/kraefteverhaeltnis |title=Politisches Kräfteverhältnis |type=official site |publisher=Grosser Rat des Kantons Basel-Stadt |language=de |location=Basel |access-date=2021-10-25 |archive-date=19 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419155904/http://www.grosserrat.bs.ch/de/mitglieder-gremien/kraefteverhaeltnis |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The left parties missed an absolute majority by two seats.

=== Federal elections ===

==== National Council ====
In the [[2019 Swiss federal election|2019 federal election]] the most popular party was the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party (SP)]] which received two seats with 34% (−1) of the votes. The next five most popular parties were the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party (GPS)]] (19.4%, +7.3), the [[Liberal Party of Switzerland|LPS]] (14.5%, +3.6) and the [[FDP Basel|FDP]] (5.8, −3.5), which are chained together at 20.3%, (+0.1), the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] (11.3%, -5.5), and the [[Green Liberal Party of Switzerland|Green Liberal Party (GLP)]] (5%, +0.6), [[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|CVP]] (4.1%, -1.9).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/9386461/appendix |title=NR – Ergebnisse Parteien (Gemeinden) (INT1) |format=CSV |editor=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO |type=official statistics |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO |via=opendata.swiss |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |date=28 November 2019 |language=de, fr, it |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=11 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811013939/https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/9386461/appendix |url-status=live }}</ref> In the federal election, a total of 44,628 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 49.4%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/9386463/appendix |title=NR – Wahlbeteiligung (Gemeinden) (INT1) |format=CSV |editor=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO |type=official statistics |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO |via=opendata.swiss |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |date=28 November 2019 |language=de, fr, it |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=11 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811014252/https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfsstatic/dam/assets/9386463/appendix |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 18 October 2015, in the [[2015 Swiss federal election|federal election]] the most popular party was the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party (SP)]] which received two seats with 35% of the votes. The next three most popular parties were the [[FDP.The Liberals|FDP]] (20.2%), the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] (16.8%), and the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party (GPS)]] (12.2%), each with one seat. In the federal election, a total of 57,304 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 50.4%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politik-stat.ch/nrw2015BS_de.html |title=Kanton Basel-Stadt, Nationalrat, 5 Sitze |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |language=de, fr, it |date=18 October 2015 |access-date=28 October 2015}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ National Councillors (''Nationalrat/ -rätin'') of Basel-Town 2019–2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ch.ch/en/elections2015/results-national-council/resultate-kanton/cantonal-results/?canton=bs |title=National Council – Results: Basel-Town |publisher=Swiss Federal Confederation |date=18 October 2015 |access-date=28 October 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113742/https://www.ch.ch/en/elections2015/results-national-council/resultate-kanton/cantonal-results/?canton=bs |url-status=dead }}</ref>
! Councillor !! Party !! part of the [[National Council (Switzerland)|National Council]] since || no. of votes
|-
| [[Beat Jans]] || {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} SP || 2010 || 21,869
|-
| [[Mustafa Atici]] || {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} SP || 2019 || 18,210<ref group="note">Since [[Eva Herzog]] also got elected as a [[State Councillor (Switzerland)|State Councillor]], she got replaced by Mustafa Atici of the same party.</ref>
|-
| [[Sibel Arslan]] || {{color box|{{party color|Green Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} GPS || 2015 || 13,582
|-
| [[Christoph Eymann]]|| {{color box|{{party color|FDP.The Liberals}}|border=silver}} LDP || 2015 (1991–2001) || 13,220
|-
| [[Katja Christ]] || {{color box|{{party color|Green Liberal Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} GLP || 2019 || 13,816
|}

==== Council of States ====
On 20 October 2019, in the [[2019 Swiss federal election|federal election]] [[Eva Herzog]], member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} (SP)]], was elected for the first time as a State Councillor ({{lang|de|Ständerätin}}) in the first round as single representative of the canton of Basel-Town and successor of Anita Fetz in the national [[Council of States (Switzerland)|Council of States]] ({{lang|de|Ständerat}}) with an absolute majority of 37'210 votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/wahlen/staenderatswahlen.assetdetail.11048405.html |title=Ständeratswahlen: Ergebnisse der Kandidierenden |type=official site |format=XLSX |language=de, fr |publisher=Swiss Federal Confederation |location=Berne, Switzerland |date=29 November 2015 |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=28 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328202402/https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/wahlen/staenderatswahlen.assetdetail.11048405.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 18 October 2015, in the [[2015 Swiss federal election|federal election]] State Councillor ({{langx|de|link=no|Ständerätin}}) [[Anita Fetz]], member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party {{color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=silver}} (SP)]], was re-elected in the first round as single representative of the canton of Basel-Town in the national [[Council of States (Switzerland)|Council of States]] ({{lang|de|Ständerat}}) with an absolute majority of 35'842 votes. She has been a member of it since 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ch.ch/en/elections2015/resultate-staenderat/resultate-kanton/kanton/?canton=bs |title=Council of States – Results: Basel-Town |publisher=Swiss Federal Confederation |type=official site |location=Berne, Switzerland |date=18 October 2015 |access-date=28 October 2015 |archive-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123211213/https://www.ch.ch/en/elections2015/resultate-staenderat/resultate-kanton/kanton/?canton=bs |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== International relations ===

==== Twin towns, sister cities and partner regions ====
Basel has two [[Twin towns and sister cities|sister cities]] and a twinning among two states:<ref name=TT>{{cite web |url=https://www.marketing.bs.ch/en/external-affairs/city-partnerships.html |title=City Partnerships |publisher=Kanton Basel-Stadt |access-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209200217/https://www.marketing.bs.ch/en/external-affairs/city-partnerships.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

* {{flagicon|USA}} US state of [[Massachusetts]], since 2002<ref name=TT/>
* {{flagicon|PRC}} [[Shanghai]], China, since 2007<ref name=TT/>
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Toyama Prefecture]], Japan, since 2009<ref name=TT/>
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Miami Beach]], US, since 2011<ref name=TT/>
* {{flagicon|CIV}} [[Abidjan]], Ivory Coast, since 2021<ref name=TT/>
* {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Seoul]], South Korea, since 2022<ref name=TT/>

==== Partner cities ====
* {{flagdeco|NLD}} [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands, since 1945<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotterdam.nl/CMO/Document/Merkstrategie%20NL%20nov%202008.pdf |title=Rotterdam Een Sterk Internationaal Merk |website=www.rotterdam.nl |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629134252/http://www.rotterdam.nl/CMO/Document/Merkstrategie%20NL%20nov%202008.pdf |archive-date=29 June 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>