Lausanne

==Politics==
===Coat of arms===
The [[blazon]] of the municipal [[coat of arms]] is ''Gules, chief argent''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ch-vd134.html |title=Lausanne commune (Vaud canton, Switzerland) |website=Crwflags.com |access-date=18 January 2016}}</ref>

===Administrative divisions===
The city is divided into 18 ''quartiers'', or districts, sometimes composed of several neighborhoods. They are: Centre (1), Maupas/Valency (2), Sébeillon/Malley (3), Montoie/Bourdonnette (4), Montriond/Cour (5), Sous-Gare/Ouchy (6), Montchoisi (7), Florimont/Chissiez (8), Mousquines/Bellevue (9), Vallon/Béthusy (10), Chailly/Rovéréaz (11), Sallaz/Vennes/Séchaud (12), Sauvabelin (13), Borde/Bellevaux (14), Vinet/Pontaise (15), Bossons/Blécherette (16), Beaulieu/Grey/Boisy (17), and Les Zones foraines (90).

===Government===
The municipality (''la Municipalité'') constitutes the executive government of the City of Lausanne and operates as a collegiate authority. It is composed of seven councilors ({{lang-fr|link=no|conseiller municipal/conseillère municipale}}), each presiding over a directorate. One of the members act as mayor (''syndic''). In the mandate period 2021–2026 (''la législature'') the Municipality is presided by le Syndic Grégoire Junod. Directoral tasks, coordination measures and implementation of laws decreed by the Communal Council are carried by the Municipality. The regular election of the Municipality by any inhabitant valid to vote is held every five years. Any resident of Lausanne allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the Municipality. Since 14 April 2003, due to the constitution by canton of Vaud not only Swiss citizen have the right to vote and elect and being elected on communal level, but also foreigners with a residence permit of at least 10 years in Switzerland and 3 years in the canton of Vaud.<ref name="Qui peut voter">{{cite web |url=http://www.lausanne.ch/en/lausanne-officielle/votations-elections/qui-vote-comment-et-ou/qui-peut-voter.html |title=Qui peut voter? |publisher=Secrétariat municipal, Ville de Lausanne |type=official site |location=Geneva, Switzerland |language=fr |access-date=1 November 2015}}</ref> The current mandate period is from 1&nbsp;Jue&nbsp;2021 to 30&nbsp;May&nbsp;2026. The delegates are elected by means of a system of Majorz. The mayor is later on elected as such by a public election as well by a system of Majorz, while the heads of the other departments are assigned by the collegiate. The executive body holds its meetings in the Town Hall (''L'Hôtel de Ville''), in the old city on ''Place de la Palud''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lausanne.ch/lausanne-officielle/municipalite.html |title=Municipalité |publisher=Hôtel de Ville de Lausanne |type=official site |language=fr |location=Lausanne, Switzerland |access-date=17 November 2016}}</ref>

{{As of|2021}}, Lausanne's Municipality is made up of three representatives of the PS ([[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party]], of whom one is also the mayor), and two members of PES ([[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party]]), and one each of [[Swiss Party of Labour|le Parti Ouvrier et Populaire Vaudois (POP)]], and PLR ([[FDP.The Liberals|Les Libéraux-Radicaux (PLR)]]), giving the left parties a very strong six out of seven seats. The last regular election was held on 7 and 28 March 2021.<ref name=CA>{{cite web |url=https://www.lausanne.ch/officiel/municipalite/composition/organisation.html |title=Organisation de la Municipalité pour 2022 |type=official site |language=fr |location=Lausanne, Switzerland |date=2021-03-28 |access-date=2022-08-01}}</ref><ref name=election>{{cite web |url=https://www.lausanne.ch/officiel/votations-elections/elections/elections-communales/elections-resultats.html |title=Résultats des élections communales |publisher=Hôtel de Ville de Lausanne |type=official site |language=fr |location=Lausanne, Switzerland |date=2021-03-07 |access-date=2022-08-01}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
|+ ''La Municipalité'' of Lausanne for the mandate period 2021–2026<ref name=CA/>
! Councilor<br />(''conseiller municipal/ conseillère municipale'') !! Party !! Directorate (''Direction de(s)'', since) of !! elected since
|-
| '''Grégoire Junod'''<ref group=CM>Mayor (''Syndic'')</ref> || {{Color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=darkgray}} PS || Culture and Urban Development (''Culture et dévelopment urbain'', 2016) || 2011
|-
| Pierre-Antoine Hildbrand || {{Color box|{{party color|FDP.The Liberals}}|border=darkgray}} PLR || Security and Economy (''Sécurité et économie'', 2016) || 2016
|-
|  Émilie Moeschler || {{Color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=darkgray}} PS || Sports and Social Cohesion (''Sports et cohésion sociale'', 2021) || 2021
|-
| Natacha Litzistorf<ref group=CM>Vice-Mayor (''Vice-syndique'') 2022</ref> || {{Color box|{{party color|Green Party of Switzerland}}|border=darkgray}} PES || Housing, Environmental Development, and Building/Architecture (''Logement, environnement et architecture'', 2016) || 2016
|-
| David Payot || {{Color box|{{party color|Swiss Party of Labour}}|border=darkgray}} POP || Childhood, Youth, and Quarters (''Enfance, jeunesse et quartiers'', 2016) || 2016
|-
| Florence Germond  || {{Color box|{{party color|Social Democratic Party of Switzerland}}|border=darkgray}} PS || Finances and Mobility (''Finances et mobilité'', 2011) || 2011
|-
| Xavier Company || {{Color box|{{party color|Green Party of Switzerland}}|border=darkgray}} PES || Industrial Services (''Services industriels'', 2021) || 2021
|}
{{reflist|group=CM}}

Simon Affolter is Town Chancellor (chancelier municipal) since and Patrizia Marzullo Darbellay is Deputy Town Chancellor since for the Municipality.

===Parliament===
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The Communal Council (''Conseil communal'') holds [[legislative power]]. It is made up of 100 members, with elections held every five years. The Communal Council decrees regulations and by-laws that are executed by the Municipality and the administration. The sessions of the Communal Council are public. Unlike members of the Municipality, members of the Communal Council are not politicians by profession, and they are paid a fee based on their attendance. Any resident of Lausanne allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the Communal Council. Since 14 April 2003, due to the constitution by canton of Vaud not only Swiss citizen have the right to vote and elect and being elected on communal level, but also foreigners with a residence permit of at least 10 years in Switzerland and 3 years in the canton of Vaud.<ref name="Qui peut voter"/> The Parliament holds its meetings in the Town Hall (''Hôtel de Ville''), in the old city on ''Place de la Palud''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lausanne.ch/lausanne-officielle/conseil-communal/a-propos.html |title=Conseil communal |publisher=Conseil communal, Ville de Lausanne |type=official site |location=Geneva, Switzerland |language=fr |access-date=1 November 2015}}</ref>

The last election of the Communal Council was held on 7 March 2021 for the mandate period (''la législature'') from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2026. As of this election the Communal Council consist of 29 (-4) members of the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party (PS)]], 24 (+7) [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party (PES)]], 21 (0) [[FDP.The Liberals|Les Libéraux-Radicaux (PLR)]], 13 (+2) ''Ensemble à Gauche'' (an alliance of the left parties [[Swiss Party of Labour|POP]] (''Parti Suisse du Travail – Parti Ouvrier et Populaire'') and [[Solidarity (Switzerland)|solidaritéS]] and ''indépendant.e.s''), 7 (-5) [[Swiss People's Party]] (UDC), and 6 (0) members of the [[Green Liberal Party of Switzerland|Green Liberal Party (pvl)]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lausanne.ch/officiel/conseil-communal/a-propos/composition-du-conseil-communal.html |title=Composition du Conseil communal |publisher=Conseil communal, Ville de Lausanne |type=official site |location=Lausanne, Switzerland |language=fr |date=2021-03-21 |access-date=2022-08-01}}</ref><ref name=election/>

===Elections===
====National Council====
In the [[2019 Swiss federal election|2019 federal election]] for the [[National Council (Switzerland)|Swiss National Council]] the most popular party was the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party]] which received 27.3% (+11.4) of the vote. The next five most popular parties were the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|PS]] (26.7%, -4.2), [[FDP.The Liberals|PLR]] (15.1%, -3.6), the [[Swiss People's Party|UDC]] (9.3%, -6), the [[Swiss Party of Labour|POP]]/[[Solidarity (Switzerland)|solidaritéS]] (9%, +1.9), the [[Green Liberal Party of Switzerland|pvl]] (6.9%, +3.4).<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}}</ref> In the federal election a total of 26,070 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 39.7%.<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 |via=opendata.swiss |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |date=28 November 2019 |language=de, fr, it |access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref>

In the [[2015 Swiss federal election|2015 federal election]] for the [[National Council (Switzerland)|Swiss National Council]] the most popular party was the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|PS]] which received 30.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the [[FDP.The Liberals|PLR]] (18.7%), the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party]] (15.9%), and the [[Swiss People's Party|UDC]] (15.4%). In the federal election, a total of 26,116 voters were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 41.0%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html |title=Nationalratswahlen 2015: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung nach Gemeinden |format=XLS |type=official statistics |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |date=4 March 2016 |language=de, fr |access-date=3 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802003536/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html |archive-date=2 August 2016}}</ref>

===Twin towns and sister cities===
* {{flagicon|Turkey}} [[Akhisar]], Turkey<ref name="COE">{{Cite web |url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/europe-prize-exhibition/lausanne |title=The Lausanne town |website=Council of Europe / Europe Prize Exhibition |language=en-GB |access-date=18 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=FAO>{{cite web |title=Lausanne |url=https://faovd.ch/commune/detail/id/19 |website=faovd.ch |publisher=Feuille des avis officiels du canton de Vaud |language=fr |access-date=21 May 2020 |archive-date=6 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206132547/https://faovd.ch/commune/detail/id/19 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|CRO}} [[Osijek]], Croatia<ref name="COE"/><ref name=FAO />
* {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} [[Pernik Municipality|Pernik]], Bulgaria<ref name="COE"/><ref name=FAO />