Barcelona City Council election, 2011

Barcelona City Council election, 2011
Barcelona
22 May 2011

All 41 seats in the Barcelona City Council
21 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,163,594 Decrease5.7%
Turnout 616,537 (53.0%)
Increase3.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Xavier Trias Jordi Hereu Alberto Fernández Díaz
Party CiU PSC PPC
Leader since 25 April 2002 8 September 2006 16 July 2002
Last election 12 seats, 25.5% 14 seats, 29.9% 7 seats, 15.6%
Seats won 14 11 9
Seat change Increase2 Decrease3 Increase2
Popular vote 174,122 134,193 104,475
Percentage 28.7% 22.1% 17.2%
Swing Increase3.2 pp Decrease7.8 pp Increase1.6 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Ricard Gomà Jordi Portabella
Party ICV-EUiA ERC
Leader since 8 July 2010 1999
Last election 4 seats, 9.3% 4 seats, 8.8%
Seats won 5 2
Seat change Increase1 Decrease2
Popular vote 62,979 33,900
Percentage 10.4% 5.6%
Swing Increase1.1 pp Decrease3.2 pp

Mayor before election

Jordi Hereu
PSC

Elected Mayor

Xavier Trias
CiU

The 2011 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th Barcelona City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Barcelona. At stake were all 41 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Barcelona.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Barcelona City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Inhabitants Seats
<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

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 2011 election was 1,619,337, the Barcelona City Council size was set to 41 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Barcelona municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.[1]

Results

Summary of the 22 May 2011 Barcelona City Council election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Convergence and Union (CiU) 174,122 28.73 Increase3.27 14 Increase2
Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Municipal Progress (PSC-PM) 134,193 22.14 Decrease7.77 11 Decrease3
People's Party of Catalonia (PPC) 104,475 17.24 Increase1.63 9 Increase2
Initiative for Catalonia Greens-United and Alternative Left (ICV-EUiA) 62,979 10.39 Increase1.04 5 Increase1
Unity for Barcelona-Municipal Agreement (ERC-RI.cat-DCat-AM) 33,900 5.59 Decrease3.22 2 Decrease2
Popular Unity Candidates-Alternative for Barcelona (CUP-AB) 11,833 1.95 New 0 ±0
Citizens-Party of the Citizenry (C's) 11,742 1.94 Decrease1.94 0 ±0
Blank Seats-Citizens for Blank Votes (Eb-CenB) 10,115 1.67 Increase1.29 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 Increase0.21 0 ±0
Platform for Catalonia (PxC) 3,405 0.56 Increase0.50 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 1,593 0.26 Increase0.14 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 Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 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 Decrease0.01 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 624 0.10 Increase0.03 0 ±0
Family and Life Party (PFyV) 533 0.09 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS) 349 0.06 New 0 ±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 246 0.04 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 219 0.04 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 27,107 4.47 Increase0.37
Total 606,046 100.00 41 ±0
Valid votes 606,046 98.30 Decrease1.18
Invalid votes 10,491 1.70 Increase1.18
Votes cast / turnout 616,537 52.99 Increase3.37
Abstentions 547,057 47.01 Decrease3.37
Registered voters 1,163,594
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Vote share
CiU
 
28.73%
PSC-PM
 
22.14%
PPC
 
17.24%
ICV-EUiA
 
10.39%
ERC-RI.cat-DCat-AM
 
5.59%
CUP-AB
 
1.95%
C's
 
1.94%
Eb-CenB
 
1.67%
SI
 
1.13%
EV-GVE
 
1.01%
Others
 
3.74%
Blank ballots
 
4.47%
City council seats
CiU
 
34.15%
PSC-PM
 
26.83%
PPC
 
21.95%
ICV-EUiA
 
12.20%
ERC-RI.cat-DCat-AM
 
4.88%

References

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