Table 2.4 Popular votes with different majorities between the people and the cantons

			Cantons
Issue	Year	People (% for)	For	Against
Federal measures and weights	1866	50.5	9.5	12.5
Proportional representation	1910	47.5	12.0	10.0
Protection for tenants	1955	50.2	7.0	15.0
Civil defence	1957	48.1	14.0	8.0
Federal finances	1970	55.4	9.0	13.0
Federal education	1973	52.8	10.5	11.5
Federal economic policy	1975	52.8	11.0	11.0
Federal energy policy	1983	50.9	11.0	12.01

1 Beginning in 1978, the Jura brought to number of counting votes of the cantons to 23.

Source: Raimund E. Germann, 'Die Europatauglichkeit der direktdemokratischen Institutionen in der Schweiz', in Schweizerisches Jahrbuch fur Politische Wissenshaft, no. 31 (Bern: Haupt).