Barcelona City Council election, 2003

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25 May 2003

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All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
21 seats needed for a majority

Registered

1,281,534

5.3%

Turnout

759,197 (59.2%)

7.7 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Joan Clos	Xavier Trias	Alberto Fernández Díaz
Party	PSC–PM	CiU	PP
Leader since	26 September 1997	25 April 2002	16 July 2002
Last election	20 seats, 45.2%	10 seats, 21.7%	6 seats, 14.9%
Seats won	15	9	7
Seat change	5	1	1
Popular vote	254,223	162,010	121,991
Percentage	33.6%	21.4%	16.1%
Swing	11.6 pp	0.3 pp	1.2 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Jordi Portabella	Imma Mayol
Party	ERC–AM	ICV–EA–EPM
Leader since	1999	1998
Last election	3 seats, 6.5%	2 seats, 7.6%
Seats won	5	5
Seat change	2	3
Popular vote	96,868	91,286
Percentage	12.8%	12.1%
Swing	6.3 pp	4.4 pp

Mayor before election

Joan Clos
PSC

Elected Mayor

Joan Clos
PSC

The 2003 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2003 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 7th 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.

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. 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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