Barcelona City Council election, 2015

Barcelona City Council election, 2015

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All 41 seats in the Barcelona City Council 21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,161,140 0.2%
Turnout	703,590 (60.6%) 7.6 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ada Colau Xavier Trias Carina Mejías Party BComú CiU Cs Leader since 11 June 2014 25 April 2002 16 December 2014 Last election 5 seats, 10.4% 14 seats, 28.7% 0 seats, 1.9% Seats won 11 10 5 Seat change 6 4 5 Popular vote 176,612 159,393 77,272 Percentage 25.2% 22.8% 11.0% Swing 14.8 pp 5.9 pp 9.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alfred Bosch Jaume Collboni Alberto Fernández Díaz Party ERC PSC–PSOE PP Leader since 11 July 2014 5 May 2014 16 July 2002 Last election 2 seats, 5.6% 11 seats, 22.1% 9 seats, 17.2% Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 3 7 6 Popular vote 77,120 67,489 61,004 Percentage 11.0% 9.6% 8.7% Swing 5.4 pp 12.5 pp 8.5 pp
Mayor before election Xavier Trias CiU Elected Mayor Ada Colau BComú

Xavier Trias
CiU

Ada Colau
BComú

The 2015 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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. It was part of the 2015 Spanish municipal elections.

The election was won by the Barcelona in Common (BC) citizen platform, supported by Podemos, Initiative for Catalonia Greens-United and Alternative Left (ICV-EUiA) and Constituent Process (PC), and led by known activist and former PAH spokeswoman Ada Colau. Colau then went on to become the first female Mayor of Barcelona in history.

Incumbent Xavier Trias, who had campaigned for re-election for a second consecutive term in office, failed to do so and his party, Convergence and Union (CiU) was reduced to 10 out of 41 seats in the City Council, from the 14 it had obtained in the previous election. Citizens (C's) became the third largest political force in the city, while Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) obtained its second best historical result.

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