The 1999 Barcelona City Council election, also the 1999 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Quick Facts All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

1999 Barcelona City Council election

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All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,352,781 1.1%
Turnout	697,091 (51.5%) 14.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Joan Clos Joaquim Molins Santiago Fisas Party PSC–PM CiU PP Leader since 26 September 1997 30 March 1998 22 January 1999 Last election 16 seats, 38.4% 13 seats, 30.6% 7 seats, 16.6% Seats won 20 10 6 Seat change 4 3 1 Popular vote 313,623 150,518 103,177 Percentage 45.2% 21.7% 14.9% Swing 6.8 pp 8.9 pp 1.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Jordi Portabella Imma Mayol Party ERC–EV–AM IC–V–EPM Leader since 1999 1998 Last election 2 seats, 5.1% 3 seats, 7.6% Seats won 3 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 45,278 43,999 Percentage 6.5% 6.3% Swing 1.4 pp 1.3 pp
Mayor before election Joan Clos PSC Elected Mayor Joan Clos PSC

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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 18 years of age, registered 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:

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, the appointee would be determined by lot.^[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]

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 poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 21 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.

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Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout						PI		Lead
1995 municipal election	13 Jun 1999	—	51.5	45.2 20	21.7 10	14.9 6	6.3 2	6.5 3	1.0 0	1.3 0	23.5
DYM/El Periódico[p 1][p 2]	6 Jun 1999	1,007	?	44.1 20	31.5 14	12.8 5	5.5 2	3.3 0	–	–	12.6
Opina/La Vanguardia[p 2][p 3]	1–2 Jun 1999	900	?	40.0 18/19	26.5 12	17.5 7/8	5.0 0/2	6.0 2	–	–	13.5
Eco Consulting/ABC[p 4]	24 May–2 Jun 1999	400	?	35.8 16/17	28.8 13	18.9 8/9	7.0 3	–	4.2 0	2.1 0	7.0
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 5][p 6]	27 May–1 Jun 1999	500	?	39.2 17/19	27.3 12/13	18.5 8/9	5.5 2	4.4 0	2.1 0	1.8 0	11.9
Demoscopia/El País[p 7]	26 May–1 Jun 1999	?	?	39.9 17/18	25.3 11	19.3 8/9	8.1 3	4.7 0/2	–	–	14.6
CIS[p 8][p 9]	9–19 May 1999	720	?	41.6 17/18	27.0 11/12	16.3 6/7	7.0 2/3	5.6 2	0.4 0	–	14.6
Opina/La Vanguardia[p 10]	29 Apr–1 May 1999	850	?	39.0 17/19	30.0 13/14	17.0 7/8	5.0 0/2	5.0 0/2	0.5 0	1.0 0	9.0
DYM/El Periódico[p 11][p 12]	24 Apr 1999	708	?	42.7 19/20	26.9 12	15.0 6/7	3.8 0	6.2 2	0.4 0	4.8 0/2	15.8
IC–EV[p 13][p 14]	20–22 Apr 1998	1,200	?	? 18	? 13	? 7	? 3	? 0	? 0	–	?
Barcelona City Council[p 15][p 16]	15–17 Dec 1997	720	?	41.0– 42.0 19	29.5– 30.5 13	? 7	? 2	? 0	? 0	–	11.5
1996 general election[3]	3 Mar 1996	—	77.0	34.4 (15)	29.8 (13)	22.7 (10)	7.7 (3)	4.1 (0)	–	–	4.6
1995 regional election[4]	19 Nov 1995	—	65.9	21.5 (9)	39.7 (17)	17.6 (7)	9.9 (4)	9.3 (4)	–	–	18.2
1995 municipal election	28 May 1995	—	66.2	38.4 16	30.6 13	16.6 7	7.6 3	5.1 2	–	–	7.8

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