Projected results show rightwing SVP making gains in Swiss federal elections

Party on track to win 29% of vote, an increase of almost 3.5 percentage points on 2019 after more than half of votes counted

The rightwing populist Swiss People's party (SVP) was set to further strengthen its position as the largest political force in parliament, an early projection suggested, as voters appeared to back the party's hardline stance against mass migration and what it called woke madness".

The SVP was on track to receive 29% of the vote, an increase of nearly 3.5 percentage points over its 2019 results, pollsters GFS Bern predicted, with more than half of the results in.