Emmen is a village and municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality Emmen consists of the village Emmen, the town Emmenbrücke, and several hamlets. History Emmen is first mentioned in 840 as Emau in a document of King Lothair I of Bavaria.For centuries the region was ruled by the Murbach Abbey in Vosges. In 1291 the municipality came under Habsburg rule. After the Battle of Sempach in 1386 the Habsburg's lost Emmen and it became part of the Canton of Lucerne. Emmen also took part in the in the Swiss peasant war of 1653. Since 1803, Emmen is part of the Hochdorf District and is its most populous municipality. In 2008, the municipality of Emmen as well as Adligenswil, Ebikon, Horw and Kriens participated in the «Starke Stadtregion Luzern» project. In it, the merger of individual or several municipalities with the city of Lucerne was examined. In 2011, the merger was proposed by the project management as the most suitable means for the further development of the region around Lucerne. However, the voters of the municipality of Emmen rejected such a proposal in 2012 - as did voters in Adligenswil, Ebikon and Kriens. That meant that Emmen remained a independent municipality. As a result, Thomas Willi who was the president of the municipality at the time and strongly advocated for a merger resigned. Politics As every Swiss municipality Emmen has a legislative and executive body, the Einwohnerrat and the Gemeinderat. Einwohnerrat (legislative) The Einwohnerrat has 40 members who are elected every four years. Gemeinderat (executive) The five-member Gemeinderat is the executive body. Each of them heads a directorate. In the legislative period 2020-2024, it consists of: Ramona Gut-Rogger FDP, Gemeindepräsidentin; Directorate of Security and Sport Patrick Schnellmann Die Mitte, Directorate of Finance and Human Resources Thomas Lehmann FDP, Directorate of Social Affairs and Society Josef Schmidli Die Mitte, Directorate for Construction and Environment Brahim Aakti SP, Directorate of School and Culture Elections Cantonal Council elections In the 2019 Cantonal Council elections in the Canton of Lucerne, the voter percentages in Emmen were: FDP 23.5 %, SVP 22.0 %, CVP 19.6 %, SP 16.7 %, GPS 13.4 %, glp 5.1 %. Swiss federal elections In the 2019 Swiss federal elections, the voter percentages in Emmen were: SVP 30.5%, SP 18.4%, CVP 16.4%, FDP 14.9%, GPS 12.4%, glp 6.0%, EVP 1.0%. Geography Emmen has