Barcelona City Council election, 1999

Barcelona City Council election, 1999

← 1995 13 June 1999 2003 →
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority
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–PMC 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

Joan Clos
PSC

Joan Clos
PSC

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.

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. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, 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 a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

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