2011 Barcelona City Council election

Barcelona City Council election, 2011
All 41 seats in the Barcelona City Council; 21 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,163,594 5.7%
Turnout	616,537 (53.0%); 3.4 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 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 22 May 2011 Barcelona City Council election results →
Party		Vote			Seats

Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color" \|	Convergence and Union (CiU)	174,122	28.73	3.27	14	2
bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color" \|	Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Municipal Progress (PSC-PM)	134,193	22.14	7.77	11	3
bgcolor="Template:People's Party of Catalonia/meta/color" \|	People's Party of Catalonia (PPC)	104,475	17.24	1.63	9	2
bgcolor="Template:Initiative for Catalonia Greens - United and Alternative Left/meta/color" \|	Initiative for Catalonia Greens-United and Alternative Left (ICV-EUiA)	62,979	10.39	1.04	5	1
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color" \|	Unity for Barcelona-Municipal Agreement (ERC-RI.cat-DCat-AM)	33,900	5.59	3.22	2	2

bgcolor="Template:Popular Unity Candidates/meta/color" \|	Popular Unity Candidates-Alternative for Barcelona (CUP-AB)	11,833	1.95	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Citizens (Spanish political party)/meta/color" \|	Citizens-Party of the Citizenry (C's)	11,742	1.94	1.94	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Blank Seats/meta/color" \|	Blank Seats-Citizens for Blank Votes (Eb-CenB)	10,115	1.67	1.29	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Catalan Solidarity for Independence/meta/color" \|	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
bgcolor="Template:Pirate Party (Spain)/meta/color" \|	Pirates of Catalonia (Pirata.cat)	4,675	0.77	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals/meta/color" \|	Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	4,308	0.71	0.21	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Platform for Catalonia/meta/color" \|	Platform for Catalonia (PxC)	3,405	0.56	0.50	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:For a Fairer World/meta/color" \|	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	1,593	0.26	0.14	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Union, Progress and Democracy/meta/color" \|	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
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain/meta/color" \|	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	0.01	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Humanist Party (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Humanist Party (PH)	624	0.10	0.03	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Family and Life Party/meta/color" \|	Family and Life Party (PFyV)	533	0.09	0.01	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Falange of the JONS/meta/color" \|	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	349	0.06	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	246	0.04	0.01	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Communist Unification of Spain/meta/color" \|	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	219	0.04	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	27,107	4.47	0.37

Total		606,046	100.00		41	±0

Valid votes		606,046	98.30	1.18
Invalid votes		10,491	1.70	1.18
Votes cast / turnout		616,537	52.99	3.37
Abstentions		547,057	47.01	3.37
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

^ "Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal Elections".

[Municipal_Elections_Electoral_Law-1] "Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal Elections".

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