2019 Barcelona City Council election

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2019 Barcelona City Council election
← 2015 26 May 2019
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,142,444 Red Arrow Down.svg1.6%
Turnout755,983 (66.2%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg5.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
  Ernest Maragall 2018 (cropped).jpg (Ada Colau) 2019 (cropped).jpg Jaume Collboni 2020 (cropped).jpg
Leader Ernest Maragall Ada Colau Jaume Collboni
Party ERC+BCN–Nova–AM BComú–ECG PSC–CP
Leader since 27 October 2018 5 February 2015 5 May 2014
Last election 5 seats, 11.0% 11 seats, 25.2% 4 seats, 9.6%
Seats won 10 10 8
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg5 Red Arrow Down.svg1 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg4
Popular vote 161,189 156,493 138,885
Percentage 21.4% 20.7% 18.4%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg10.4 pp Red Arrow Down.svg4.5 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg8.8 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  (Manuel Valls) Dinar Cambra amb Manuel Valls, candidat a l'alcaldia de Barcelona (cropped) (cropped).jpg Joaquim Forn 2017 (cropped).jpg (Josep Bou) Segunda jornada de la Convención 2019 del Partido Popular en Madrid. (31887604837) (cropped) (bis).jpg
Leader Manuel Valls Joaquim Forn[a]
Party BCN Canvi–Cs Junts PP
Leader since 25 September 2018 23 January 2019 12 December 2018
Last election 5 seats, 11.1% 10 seats, 22.8% 3 seats, 8.7%
Seats won 6 5 2
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1 Red Arrow Down.svg5 Red Arrow Down.svg1
Popular vote 99,452 79,280 37,786
Percentage 13.2% 10.5% 5.0%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2.1 pp Red Arrow Down.svg12.3 pp Red Arrow Down.svg3.7 pp
Mayor before election

Ada Colau
BComú

Elected Mayor

Ada Colau
BComú

The 2019 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2019 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 41 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

Electoral system[]

The City Council of Barcelona (Catalan: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2]

Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Barcelona and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population Councillors
<100 3
101–250 5
251–1,000 7
1,001–2,000 9
2,001–5,000 11
5,001–10,000 13
10,001–20,000 17
20,001–50,000 21
50,001–100,000 25
>100,001 +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[1]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[2]

Parliamentary status[]

The table below shows the status of the different political groups in the City Council at the time of dissolution.[3]

Parliamentary composition in April 2019
Groups Parties Councillors
Seats Total
Barcelona in Common's Municipal Group BComú 7 11
ICV 3
EUiA 1
Democratic Municipal Group PDeCAT 8 9
INDEP 1[b]
Citizens's Municipal Group Cs 5 5
Republican Municipal Group ERC 4 4
Socialist Municipal Group PSC 4 4
People's Party's Municipal Group PP 3 3
Popular Unity Candidacy–Let's Reverse
Barcelona Municipal Group 		CUP 3 3
Non-Inscrits DC 1[c] 2
INDEP 1[d]

Campaign budget[]

Parties and alliances Budget
(self-reported)[6]
BComú–ECG €425,000
PSC–CP €416,701
Junts €320,000
ERC+BCN–Nova–AM €246,250
Capgirem BCN–AMunt €200,000
BCN Canvi–Cs €170,000
PP No data

According to a report from the Catalan newspaper Diari Ara, Manuel Valls, the candidate of Citizens, would have received funds from a group of businessmen to prepare the campaign, that would have included a salary of €20,000 monthly for him.[7][8] Valls rejected those accusations and said all funds he received for the campaign were declared.[9]

Opinion polls[]

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 21 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

Results[]

← Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Barcelona election results
BarcelonaCouncilDiagram2019.svg
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
ERC–Mayor Ernest Maragall+BCN–Nova–AM (ERC+BCN–Nova–AM) 161,189 21.37 +10.36 10 +5
Barcelona in Common–In Common We Win (BComú–ECG) 156,493 20.74 –4.47 10 –1
PSC–Commitment to Barcelona–United–Progress Candidacy (PSC–CP) 138,885 18.41 +8.78 8 +4
Barcelona for Change–Citizens (BCN Canvi–Cs)1 99,452 13.18 +2.15 6 +1
Together (Junts)2 79,280 10.51 –12.24 5 –5
People's Party (PP) 37,786 5.01 –3.70 2 –1
CUP–Let's Reverse Barcelona–Municipalist Alternative (Capgirem BCN–AMunt) 29,318 3.89 –3.53 0 –3
Barcelona is Capital–Primaries (BCAP–Primàries) 28,253 3.74 New 0 ±0
Vox (Vox) 8,751 1.16 +0.94 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 6,181 0.82 ±0.00 0 ±0
The Eco-pacifist Greens (EVEP) 1,891 0.25 New 0 ±0
Citizen Force (FC's) 1,197 0.16 New 0 ±0
United and Socialists+ for Democracy (Unidos SI–DEF) 501 0.07 New 0 ±0
Blank Seats (EB) 432 0.06 –0.22 0 ±0
Convergents (CNV) 379 0.05 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Catalan People (PCPC) 373 0.05 –0.04 0 ±0
European Retirees Social Democratic Party (PDSJE) 313 0.04 New 0 ±0
Act (PACT) 303 0.04 New 0 ±0
Family and Life Party (PFiV) 215 0.03 New 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 195 0.03 New 0 ±0
Libertarian Party (P–LIB) 144 0.02 –0.02 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 132 0.02 –0.05 0 ±0
dCIDE (Of Spanish Centre-Left) (dCIDE) 93 0.01 New 0 ±0
We, Party of Social Regeneration (NPRS) 47 0.01 New 0 ±0
Barcelona is you (BCN ets tú) 5 0.00 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 2,635 0.35 –0.56
Total 754,443 41 ±0
Valid votes 754,443 99.80 +0.24
Invalid votes 1,540 0.20 –0.24
Votes cast / turnout 755,983 66.17 +5.58
Abstentions 386,461 33.83 –5.58
Registered voters 1,142,444
Sources[15][16]
Popular vote
ERC–Nova–AM
 
 21.37%
BComú–ECG
 
 20.74%
PSC–CP
 
 18.41%
BCN Canvi–Cs
 
 13.18%
Junts
 
 10.51%
PP
 
 5.01%
Capgirem BCN
 
 3.89%
BCAP–Primàries
 
 3.74%
Vox
 
 1.16%
Others
 
 1.64%
Blank ballots
 
 0.35%
Seats
ERC–Nova–AM
 
 24.39%
BComú–ECG
 
 24.39%
PSC–CP
 
 19.51%
BCN Canvi–Cs
 
 14.63%
Junts
 
 12.20%
PP
 
 4.88%

Aftermath[]

Investiture
Ballot → 15 June 2019
Required majority → 21 out of 41
21 / 41
 checkY
15 / 41
 ☒N
Josep Bou (PP)
2 / 41
 ☒N
Blank ballots
3 / 41
Absentees
0 / 41
Sources[17]

Notes[]

  1. ^ In preventive detention in Lledoners (Barcelona) at the time of the election.
  2. ^ Sònia Recasens, former UDC councillor.
  3. ^ Gerard Ardanuy, former UDC councillor.[4]
  4. ^ Juanjo Puigcorbé, former ERC councillor.[5]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq Within JxCat.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Within JxSí.

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