2011 Barcelona municipal election

2011 Barcelona municipal election
22 May 2011
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,163,594 Decrease 5.7%
Turnout616,537 (53.0%)
Increase 3.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Xavier Trias Jordi Hereu Alberto Fernández Díaz
Party CiU PSC–PM PP
Leader since 17 May 2002 8 September 2006 17 July 2002
Last election 12 seats, 25.5% 14 seats, 29.9% 7 seats, 15.6%
Seats won 14 11 9
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 3 Increase 2
Popular vote 174,122 134,193 104,475
Percentage 28.7% 22.1% 17.2%
Swing Increase 3.2 pp Decrease 7.8 pp Increase 1.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Ricard Gomà Jordi Portabella
Party ICV–EUiA–E UpB–ERC–RI.cat–DCat
Leader since 4 July 2010 16 May 1998
Last election 4 seats, 9.3% 4 seats, 8.8%
Seats won 5 2
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 2
Popular vote 62,979 33,900
Percentage 10.4% 5.6%
Swing Increase 1.1 pp Decrease 3.2 pp
Mayor before election

Jordi Hereu
PSC

 Mayor after election

Xavier Trias
CiU

A municipal election was held in Barcelona on 22 May 2011 to elect the 9th City Council of the municipality. All 41 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

Overview

Under the 1978 Constitution, the governance of municipalities in Spain—part of the country's local government system—was centered on the figure of city councils (Spanish: ayuntamientos), local corporations with independent legal personality composed of a mayor, a government council and an elected legislative assembly.[1] The mayor was indirectly elected by the local assembly, requiring an absolute majority; otherwise, the candidate from the most-voted party automatically became mayor (ties were resolved by drawing lots).[2] In the case of Barcelona, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Barcelona.[3]

Date

The term of local assemblies in Spain expired four years after the date of their previous election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE).[4] The previous local elections were held on 27 May 2007, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 22 May 2011.

Local assemblies could not be dissolved before the expiration of their term, except in cases of mismanagement that seriously harmed the public interest and implied a breach of constitutional obligations, in which case the Council of Ministers could—optionally—decide to call a by-election.[5]

Elections to the assemblies of local entities were officially called on 29 March 2011 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 22 May.[6]

Electoral system

Voting for local assemblies was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality and with full political rights (provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated), as well as resident non-national European citizens, and those whose country of origin allowed reciprocal voting by virtue of a treaty.[7]

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each municipality.[8] Each municipality was a multi-member constituency, with a number of seats based on the following scale (amended for smaller municipalities in 2011):[9]

Population Councillors
<100 3
101–250 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
>100,001 +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[10]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 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. In the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[11] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[12]

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

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSC–PM
List
 Jordi Hereu Social democracy 29.9% 14 Yes [13]
[14]
CiU Xavier Trias Catalan nationalism
Centrism		 25.5% 12 No [15]
[16]
PP
List
 Alberto Fernández Díaz Conservatism
Christian democracy		 15.6% 7 No [17]
ICV–EUiA–E Ricard Gomà Regionalism
Eco-socialism
Green politics		 9.3% 4 Yes [18]
[19]
[20]
UpB–ERC–
RI.cat–DCat
List
 Jordi Portabella Catalan independence
Left-wing nationalism
Social democracy		 8.8% 4 No [21]
[22]

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.

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:

  Exit poll

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Preferred Mayor

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

All candidates
Hereu vs. Trias
Tura vs. Trias

Predicted Mayor

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood for each leader to become mayor.

Results

← Summary of the 22 May 2011 City Council of Barcelona election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Convergence and Union (CiU) 174,12228.73+3.27 14+2
Socialists' Party of Catalonia–Municipal Progress (PSC–PM) 134,19322.14−7.77 11−3
People's Party (PP) 104,47517.24+1.63 9+2
Initiative for Catalonia Greens–EUiA–Agreement (ICV–EUiA–E) 62,97910.39+1.04 5+1
Unity for Barcelona–Republican Left–Rally (UpB–ERC–RI.cat–DCat) 33,9005.59−3.22 2−2
Popular Unity Candidacy–Alternative for Barcelona (CUP–AxB) 11,8331.95New 0±0
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) 11,7421.94−1.94 0±0
Blank Seats–Citizens for Blank Votes (EB–CenB) 10,1151.67+1.29 0±0
Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI) 6,8231.13New 0±0
The Greens–European Green Group (EV–GVE) 6,1281.01New 0±0
Pirates of Catalonia (Pirata.cat) 4,6750.77New 0±0
Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 4,3080.71+0.21 0±0
Platform for Catalonia (PxC) 3,4050.56+0.50 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 1,5930.26+0.14 0±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 1,4630.24New 0±0
Pensioners in Action Party (PDLPEA) 1,3820.23New 0±0
The Barcelona of Neighbourhoods (LBB) 1,1890.20New 0±0
Communist Party of the Catalan People (PCPC) 9790.16±0.00 0±0
Open Your Eyes Party (PATO) 9540.16New 0±0
Left Republican Party–Republican Left (PRE–IR) 7100.12−0.01 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 6240.10+0.03 0±0
Family and Life Party (PFiV) 5330.09+0.01 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE de las JONS) 3490.06New 0±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 2460.04+0.01 0±0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 2190.04New 0±0
Blank ballots 27,1074.47+0.37
Total 606,046 41±0
Valid votes 606,04698.30−1.18
Invalid votes 10,4911.70+1.18
Votes cast / turnout 616,53752.99+3.37
Abstentions 547,05747.01−3.37
Registered voters 1,163,594
Sources[23][24][25][26]
Popular vote
CiU
 
 28.73%
PSC–PM
 
 22.14%
PP
 
 17.24%
ICV–EUiA–E
 
 10.39%
UpB–ERC–RI.cat
 
 5.59%
CUP–AxB
 
 1.95%
C's
 
 1.94%
EB–CenB
 
 1.67%
SI
 
 1.13%
EV–GVE
 
 1.01%
Others
 
 3.73%
Blank ballots
 
 4.47%
Seats
CiU
 
 34.15%
PSC–PM
 
 26.83%
PP
 
 21.95%
ICV–EUiA–E
 
 12.20%
UpB–ERC–RI.cat
 
 4.88%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Ballot → 1 July 2011
Required majority → 21 out of 41
17 / 41
 check
11 / 41
 X mark
8 / 41
 X mark
Ricard Gomà (ICV–EUiA)
5 / 41
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
0 / 41
Absentees
0 / 41
Sources[23][27]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Montserrat Tura as PSC candidate hypothesis.
  2. 1 2 3 Jordi Hereu as PSC candidate hypothesis.
  3. 1 2 3 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

Opinion poll sources

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  2. ↑ "Las encuestas a pie de urna confirman el descalabro del PSOE y consolidan la mayoría absoluta en Madrid". ABC (in Spanish). 22 May 2011.
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Other

  1. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 140; LBRL (1985), art. 19.
  2. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), art. 196.
  3. ↑ LBRL (1985), arts. 121–132.
  4. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 42 & 194.
  5. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 61.
  6. ↑ Royal Decree 424/2011 (2011), art. 1.
  7. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 13; LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3 & 176.
  8. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 163 & 180.
  9. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 179.
  10. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 46, 48 & 182.
  11. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 44 & 187.
  12. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 44 bis.
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