1979 Barcelona City Council election
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All 43 seats in the Barcelona City Council 22 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 1,487,392 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 794,874 (53.4%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| Party | Vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| width="1" bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color" | | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE) | 269,006 | 33.89 | − | 16 | − |
| bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color" | | Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) | 151,245 | 19.05 | − | 9 | − |
| bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color" | | Convergence and Union (CiU) | 144,701 | 18.23 | − | 8 | − |
| bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color" | | Centrists of Catalonia (CC-UCD) | 132,296 | 16.67 | − | 8 | − |
| bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color" | | Republican Left of Catalonia-National Front (ERC-FNC) | 42,167 | 5.31 | − | 2 | − |
| bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color" | | Democratic Coalition (CD) | 23,469 | 2.96 | − | 0 | − |
| Party of Labour of Catalonia (PTC) | 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 | − | |
| Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN) | 3,773 | 0.48 | − | 0 | − | |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politics)/meta/color" | | 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 | − | |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politics)/meta/color" | | 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 | ||||||
Councillors elected
- Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE):
- Narcís Serra
- Pasqual Maragall
- Francesc Martí Jusmet
- Josep Ignaci Urenda i Bariego
- Jordi Valiverdú i Gimeno
- Felip Soler i Sabaris
- Francesca Masgoret i Llardent
- César López Vera
- Lluís Reverter i Gelabert
- Gonzalo Crespo Prieto
- Mercé Sala Schnorkowski
- Pablo Cernuda Barrios
- Jacint Humet i Palet
- Enric Truño i Lagares
- Ramón Martínez i Fraile
- Josep Octavio i Fabregat
- Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC):
- Josep Miquel Abad Silvestre
- Justiniano Martínez Medina
- Agustí de Semir Rovira (Independent)
- Jordl Conill Valls
- Rafael Pradas Camps
- Nuria Gíspert Feliu
- Miguel Bonilla Ruiz
- Ricardo Boix Junquera
- Francesc Reguant Fosas
- Convergence and Union (CiU):
- Centrists of Catalonia (CC-UCD):
- Republican Left of Catalonia-National Front (ERC-FNC):
- Joan Hortola i Arau (ERC)
- Frederic Rahola i Aguade (ERC)[2]
References
- ^ "Law 39/1978, of 17 July, of local elections".
- ^ "Los cuarenta y tres concejales del nuevo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
