Barcelona City Council election, 2011
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All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout |
616,537 (53.0%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2011 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2011 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th 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 thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
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. 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.[1][2][3]
Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2][3] 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 case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[3]
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election. For the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[1][2]
Results
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| Convergence and Union (CiU) | 174,122 | 28.73 | +3.27 | 14 | +2 | |
| Socialists' Party of Catalonia–Municipal Progress (PSC–PM) | 134,193 | 22.14 | –7.77 | 11 | –3 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 104,475 | 17.24 | +1.63 | 9 | +2 | |
| Initiative for Catalonia Greens–EUiA–Agreement (ICV–EUiA–E) | 62,979 | 10.39 | +1.04 | 5 | +1 | |
| Unity for Barcelona–Republican Left–Rally (UpB–ERC–RI.cat–DCat) | 33,900 | 5.59 | –3.22 | 2 | –2 | |
| Popular Unity Candidacy–Alternative for Barcelona (CUP–AxB) | 11,833 | 1.95 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) | 11,742 | 1.94 | –1.94 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank Seats–Citizens for Blank Votes (EB–CenB) | 10,115 | 1.67 | +1.29 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI) | 6,823 | 1.13 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens–European Green Group (EV–GVE) | 6,128 | 1.01 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Pirates of Catalonia (Pirata.cat) | 4,675 | 0.77 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 4,308 | 0.71 | +0.21 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Platform for Catalonia (PxC) | 3,405 | 0.56 | +0.50 | 0 | ±0 | |
| For a Fairer World (PUM+J) | 1,593 | 0.26 | +0.14 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 1,463 | 0.24 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Pensioners in Action Party (PDLPEA) | 1,382 | 0.23 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Barcelona of Neighborhoods (LBB) | 1,189 | 0.20 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Party of the Catalan People (PCPC) | 979 | 0.16 | ±0.00 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Open Your Eyes Party (PATO) | 954 | 0.16 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Left Republican Party–Republican Left (PRE–IR) | 710 | 0.12 | –0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Party (PH) | 624 | 0.10 | +0.03 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Family and Life Party (PFiV) | 533 | 0.09 | +0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 349 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) | 246 | 0.04 | +0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) | 219 | 0.04 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 27,107 | 4.47 | +0.37 | |||
| Total | 606,046 | 41 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 606,046 | 98.30 | –1.18 | |||
| Invalid votes | 10,491 | 1.70 | +1.18 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 616,537 | 52.99 | +3.37 | |||
| Abstentions | 547,057 | 47.01 | –3.37 | |||
| Registered voters | 1,163,594 | |||||
| Sources[4][5][6][7] | ||||||
References
- 1 2 3 "General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Regulation of the Basis of Local Regimes Law of 1985". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ "Election Results. Municipal Elections 2011. Barcelona". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ↑ "Local election results, 22 May 2011, in Barcelona, Burgos, Cáceres, Cádiz, Cantabria, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Córdoba, A Coruña, Cuenca, Girona, Granada, Guadalajara, Gipuzkoa, Huelva, Huesca and Jaén provinces" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2011. Barcelona Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ↑ "Municipal elections in Barcelona since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.