Barcelona City Council election, 2019

Barcelona City Council election, 2019

← 2015 26 May 2019
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Leader Ada Colau Xavier Trias Carina Mejías Party BComú PDeCAT Cs Leader since 5 February 2015 25 April 2002 16 December 2014 Last election 11 seats, 25.2% 10 seats, 22.8% 5 seats, 11.1% Current seats 11 9 5 Seats needed 10 12 16   Leader Alfred Bosch Jaume Collboni Alberto Fernández Díaz Party ERC–CatSí PSC–PSOE PP Leader since 11 July 2014 5 May 2014 16 July 2002 Last election 5 seats, 11.0% 4 seats, 9.6% 3 seats, 8.7% Current seats 5 4 3 Seats needed 16 17 18
Incumbent Mayor Ada Colau BComú

Ada Colau
BComú

The 2019 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2019 Barcelona municipal election, is scheduled to be held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 41 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain. The date of the election is likely to be adjusted so as to make it coincide with the 2019 European Parliament election.

The City Council of Barcelona (Catalan: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) is 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 is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing 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 allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold are not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Councillors are allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

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