Barcelona City Council election, 1979

Barcelona City Council election, 1979
Barcelona
3 April 1979
All 43 seats in the Barcelona City Council
22 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,487,392
Turnout 794,874 (53.4%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Narcís Serra Josep Miquel Abad Xavier Millet
Party PSC PSUC CiU
Leader since 1979 1979 1979
Seats won 16 9 8
Popular vote 269,006 151,245 144,701
Percentage 33.9% 19.1% 18.2%
Mayor before election

Manuel Font
Independent

 Elected Mayor

Narcís Serra
PSC

The 1979 Barcelona City Council election was held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st Barcelona City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Barcelona. At stake were all 43 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 1979 election was 1,886,921, the Barcelona City Council size was set to 43 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 ballots—for 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 3 April 1979 Barcelona City Council election results →
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE) 269,006 33.89 − 16 −
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) 151,245 19.05 − 9 −
Convergence and Union (CiU) 144,701 18.23 − 8 −
Centrists of Catalonia (CC-UCD) 132,296 16.67 − 8 −
Republican Left of Catalonia-National Front (ERC-FNC) 42,167 5.31 − 2 −
Democratic Coalition (CD) 23,469 2.96 − 0 −
Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) 8,776 1.11 − 0 −
Communists of Catalonia (Com.C) 6,148 0.77 − 0 −
Communist Movement-Communist Left Organization (MC-OIC) 5,500 0.69 − 0 −
National Liberation Socialist Party (PSAN) 3,773 0.48 − 0 −
Christian Social Democracy of Catalonia (DSCC) 3,171 0.40 − 0 −
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) 1,939 0.24 − 0 −
Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT) 906 0.11 − 0 −
Catalan Left Bloc (BEC) 362 0.05 − 0 −
Democratic Municipal Action (AMD) 307 0.04 − 0 −
Blank ballots 0 0.00 −
Total 793,766 100.00 43 −
Valid votes 793,766 99.86 −
Invalid votes 1,108 0.14 −
Votes cast / turnout 794,874 53.44 −
Abstentions 692,518 46.56 −
Registered voters 1,487,392
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Vote share
PSC-PSOE
  
 33.89%
PSUC
  
 19.05%
CiU
  
 18.23%
UCD
  
 16.67%
ERC-FNC
  
 5.31%
CD
  
 2.96%
PTE
  
 1.11%
Others
  
 2.79%
Blank ballots
  
 0.00%
City council seats
PSC-PSOE
  
 37.21%
PSUC
  
 20.93%
CiU
  
 18.60%
UCD
  
 18.60%
ERC-FNC
  
 4.65%

Councillors elected

References

  1. ↑ "Law 39/1978, of 17 July, of local elections.".
  2. ↑ "Los cuarenta y tres concejales del nuevo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
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