Barcelona City Council election, 2019

Barcelona City Council election, 2019
26 May 2019[1]
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls

 
Leader Ada Colau Neus Munté Manuel Valls
Party BComú JuntsxCat Cs
Leader since 5 February 2015 12 May 2018 25 September 2018
Last election 11 seats, 25.2% 10 seats, 22.8% 5 seats, 11.1%
Current seats 11 9 5
Seats needed 10 12 16
 
Leader Ernest Maragall Jaume Collboni Alberto Fernández Díaz
Party ERC–CatSí PSC–PSOE PP
Leader since 27 October 2018 5 May 2014 16 July 2002
Last election 5 seats, 11.0% 4 seats, 9.6% 3 seats, 8.7%
Current seats 5 4 3
Seats needed 16 17 18
Incumbent Mayor

Ada Colau
BComú

The 2019 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2019 Barcelona municipal election, is scheduled to be held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 41 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.[1]

Electoral system

The City Council of Barcelona (Catalan: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) is 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 is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises 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 allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[2][3][4]

Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold are not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[2][3][4] Councillors are 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 is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[4]

The electoral law provides that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors are allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors are required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they are seeking election. For the case of Barcelona, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures are required. Electors are 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[2][3]

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.

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size Turnout Lead
GAD3/La Vanguardia[p 1] 4–7 Jun 2018 803 ? 21.8
10/11		 11.4
5		 19.9
9/10		 17.6
8		 15.4
7		 4.1
0		 5.0
0/2		 – – – 1.9
GESOP/El Periódico[p 2] 14–16 May 2018 800 ? 20.9
9/10		 13.7
6		 18.0
8/9		 18.0
8/9		 11.6
5		 4.0
0		 9.4
4		 – – – 2.9
Time Consultants/Crónica Global
[p 3][p 4]		 18–27 Apr 2018 800 ? 17.3
8		 17.7
8		 17.5
8		 21.0
9		 13.3
6		 2.7
0		 8.1
2		 – – – 3.3
2017 regional election[5] 21 Dec 2017 N/A 81.6 9.3
4		 w.JxC 24.0
10		 20.9
9		 14.5
6		 5.0
2		 5.3
2		 – – 19.6
8		 3.1
NC Report/La Razón[p 5][p 6] 13–18 Nov 2017 600 56.7 17.6
8		 13.3
6		 17.4
8		 19.3
8		 14.9
6		 7.6
3		 6.2
2		 – – – 1.7
GESOP/El Periódico[p 7][p 8] 15–18 May 2017 800 ? 27.5
12		 13.5
6		 11.5
5		 17.0
8		 11.9
5		 8.0
3		 5.3
2		 – – – 10.5
2016 general election[6] 26 Jun 2016 N/A 67.6 25.7
11		 13.5
6		 11.3
5		 17.4
7		 14.1
6		 15.2
6		 – – – – 8.3
NC Report/La Razón[p 9] 29 May 2016 ? ? 22.6
10		 19.2
8		 13.4
6		 12.7
5		 11.3
5		 9.1
4		 7.9
3		 – – – 3.4
2015 general election[7] 20 Dec 2015 N/A 72.3 26.6
12		 14.5
6		 13.1
6		 15.2
6		 13.2
6		 12.7
5		 – – – – 10.4
2015 regional election[8] 27 Sep 2015 N/A 77.1 – w.JxSí 17.7
8		 w.JxSí 11.5
5		 9.2
4		 10.0
4		 37.2
16		 9.8
4		 – 19.5
NC Report/La Razón[p 10][p 11] 26 Jul–8 Aug 2015 900 52.3 20.9
10		 17.5
8		 14.3
6		 11.1
5		 10.9
5		 8.2
3		 9.5
4		 – – – 3.4
2015 municipal election 24 May 2015 N/A 60.5 25.2
11		 22.8[lower-roman 1]
10		 11.0
5		 11.0
5		 9.6
4		 8.7
3		 7.4
3		 – – – 2.4
  1. ↑ Result for Convergence and Union.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ↑ "Ciudadanos se sitúa casi a la par de BComú en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 13 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Colau pierde fuelle pero volvería a ganar". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 20 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "ERC ganaría hoy las elecciones municipales en Barcelona". Crónica Global (in Spanish). 13 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "BARCELONA. Elecciones municipales. Encuesta Time Consultants para Crónica Global. Abril 2018". Electograph (in Spanish). 13 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "El independentismo castiga a Colau". La Razón (in Spanish). 19 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "BARCELONA. Sondeo NC Report. Municipales. Noviembre 2017". Electograph (in Spanish). 19 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Colau ganaría otra vez las municipales con ERC como segunda fuerza". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 28 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Colau ganaría las municipales otra vez con ERC como principal rival". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 28 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Los barceloneses suspenden la gestión de Colau en los altercados". La Razón (in Spanish). 29 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "PP y C's ganarían hoy en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". La Razón (in Spanish). 25 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Encuesta agosto 2015" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 25 August 2015.
Other
  1. 1 2 "El 26 de mayo de 2019: elecciones europeas, autonómicas y municipales". Telecinco (in Spanish). 20 March 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 3 "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. 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.
  5. ↑ "Election Results. Parliament of Catalonia Election 2017". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 2016. Barcelona Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. December 2015. Barcelona Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Election Results. Parliament of Catalonia Election 2015". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
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