Grand Council of Vaud

The Grand Council of Vaud (French: Grand Conseil de Vaud) is the legislature of the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. Vaud has a unicameral legislature. The Great Council has 150 seats, with members elected every four years.

In the last election, on 11 March 2007, the Social Democratic Party won a plurality, with 39 of the 150 seats. The Free Democrats (29 seats), Swiss People's Party (26 seats), Green Party (24 seats), and Liberal Party (20 seats) also won significant blocs. Since then, one Social Democrat and one Liberal have defected to the heterogeneous 'Alliance of the Centre'.