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2023 Barcelona City Council election

2023 Barcelona City Council election

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The 2023 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2023 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th 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 twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

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

Incumbent mayor Ada Colau's party, Barcelona in Common (BComú), fell to third place behind Xavier Trias-led Together for Catalonia (JxCat) alliance and the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), which scored its best result since 2011. PSC's Jaume Collboni was able to become the new city's mayor following an alliance with BComú and the surprise support of the People's Party (PP), which aimed at preventing the city's government from falling into the hands of pro-Catalan independence parties.

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.[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 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.

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:

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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]

Council composition

The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the time of dissolution.[3]

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Parties and candidates

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 sought 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]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Campaign

Party slogans

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Election debates

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Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Graphical summary

Local regression trend line of poll results from 26 May 2019 to 28 May 2023, with each line corresponding to a political party.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. 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.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

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Preferred Mayor

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become mayor of Barcelona.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Results

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Aftermath

At the first meeting of the council on 17 June 2023, Jaume Collboni of the PSC was elected as the new Mayor of Barcelona after receiving the support of his own party, Barcelona en Comú and the PP for a total of 23 votes, above the threshold of 21 votes required for the mayorality not to be automatically assumed by Xavier Trias as the leader of the most-voted candidature.

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Notes

  1. Results for Junts in the 2019 election.
  2. Marilén Barceló, former Cs councillor.[4]
  3. Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  4. Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
  5. Within TxBCN.
  6. Alternative projection based on raw local barometer data.
  7. Within Cs.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Colau y Collboni llegan empatados a las elecciones y Maragall se recupera a costa de Trias". The Adelaide Review (in Spanish). 27 May 2023.
  2. "Colau se afianza en cabeza ante la erosión de Trias y Collboni". The Adelaide Review (in Spanish). 26 May 2023.
  3. "Encuesta elecciones Barcelona". GAD3 (in Spanish). 13 May 2023.
  4. "Vuelco en Barcelona: Trias ganaría las elecciones". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 14 January 2023.
  5. "Maragall, Colau y Collboni empatan en concejales". Metrópoli (in Spanish). 27 November 2022.
  6. "Maragall y Colau empatan en concejales en Barcelona". Metrópoli (in Spanish). 28 October 2022.
  7. "Una encuesta de Foment sitúa al PSC en cabeza en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 7 October 2022.
  8. "Maragall aleja a Colau de la alcaldía de Barcelona". Metrópoli (in Spanish). 26 September 2022.
  9. "Baròmetre de Barcelona. Segona onada 2021". City Council of Barcelona (in Catalan). 27 December 2021. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  10. "Baròmetre Semestral de Barcelona. Juny 2021". City Council of Barcelona (in Catalan). 18 July 2021. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  11. "Baròmetre Semestral de Barcelona. Desembre 2020". City Council of Barcelona (in Catalan). 24 December 2020. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  12. "Baròmetre Semestral de Barcelona. Juliol 2020". City Council of Barcelona (in Catalan). 23 July 2020. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  13. "Baròmetre Semestral de Barcelona. Desembre 2019". City Council of Barcelona (in Catalan). 27 December 2019. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
Other
  1. Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  3. "Eleccions municipals a Barcelona (1979 - 2019)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. Sust, Toni (9 June 2021). "Marilén Barceló no podrá pasar del grupo de Cs al de Valls y serà concejala no adscrita". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  5. "Maragall, proclamado candidato de ERC a la Alcaldía de Barcelona: "Es hora de liderar"" (in Spanish). Barcelona: Europa Press. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  6. Sust, Toni (27 May 2021). "Colau cambia el guion y será candidata en 2023". El Periódico (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  7. Sans, Sara; Sancho, Jesús (19 May 2022). "Colau confirma que optará a un tercer mandato". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. "Collboni (PSC) repetirá como candidato del partido a las elecciones municipales de Barcelona en 2023" (in Spanish). Barcelona: Europa Press. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  9. Solé Altimira, Oriol (5 November 2022). "Collboni, proclamado candidato del PSC por Barcelona: "Me presento para ganar, no para hacer alcaldesa a nadie"". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  10. "Ciudadanos rompe su alianza con Valls por apoyar a Colau en Barcelona". Público (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  11. Hurtado, Julio (16 February 2023). "Anna Grau, elegida en primarias alcaldable de Ciudadanos en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  12. "Manuel Valls dimite como concejal de Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  13. Hurtado, Julio; Pardo Torregrosa, Iñaki (20 December 2021). "Barcelona pel Canvi pasa a llamarse Valents y aspira a integrar el constitucionalismo catalán". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  14. Sans, Sara (7 May 2022). "El súbito adiós de Artadi deja en el aire el plan de Junts para Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  15. Suñé, Ramon (12 December 2022). "Xavier Trias será el candidato de Junts a la alcaldía de Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  16. "Trias incorpora a Josep Rius y a Joana Ortega a su lista para las municipales". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 12 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  17. Palmer, Jordi (22 November 2021). "Josep Bou se postula como alcaldable del PP: "Tengo ganas, fuerza e ilusión"". El Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  18. Piñol, Àngels; Burgos, Rafa (9 January 2023). "Feijóo elige a Daniel Sirera como alcaldable del PP en Barcelona". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  19. "Qui és Basha Changue, la candidata de la CUP per recuperar Barcelona". Nació Digital (in Catalan). 19 September 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  20. Planas, Pablo (27 December 2022). "Vox designa al empresario Gonzalo de Oro-Pulido candidato a la alcaldía de Barcelona". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  21. "Así son los carteles electorales de los candidatos de Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  22. Hurtado, Julio (10 May 2023). "Anna Grau se destapa en el cartel de campaña de Ciudadanos, que tendrá como lema "Libérate"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  23. "La candidatura de Trias presenta sus carteles electorales con un lema similar al de Illa". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  24. Monegal, Ferran (11 May 2023). "La crítica de Monegal: Debate electoral, floja audiencia y no obstante entretenido". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  25. "El debat decisiu a Barcelona, a TV3 i Catalunya Ràdio" (in Catalan). TV3. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  26. "Electoral results. Parliament of Catalonia election 2021. Barcelona (Municipality)". Government of Catalonia (in Catalan). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  27. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Barcelona Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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