The 2027 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2027 Barcelona municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 13th 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 eight autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
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Electoral system
editThe 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.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2] Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, 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 allowed 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 an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors are allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:
| Population | Councillors |
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| <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 mayor is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly is to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.[1]
Council composition
editThe table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the present time.
| Groups | Parties | Councillors | |||
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| Together for Catalonia's Municipal Group | JxCat | 11 | 11 | ||
| Socialist Municipal Group | PSC | 10 | 10 | ||
| Barcelona in Common's Municipal Group | BComú | 9 | 9 | ||
| Republican Municipal Group | ERC | 5 | 5 | ||
| People's Party's Municipal Group | PP | 4 | 4 | ||
| Vox's Municipal Group | Vox | 2 | 2 | ||
Parties and candidates
editThe electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Barcelona, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[2]
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:
| Candidacy | Parties and alliances |
Leading candidate | Ideology | Previous result | Gov. | Ref. | |||
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Martí Galbis | Catalan independence Liberalism Christian democracy |
22.45% | 11 | 
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Jaume Collboni | Social democracy | 19.82% | 10 | 
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TBD | Left-wing populism Participatory democracy |
19.76% | 9 |
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| ERC–AM | List |
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TBD | Catalan independence Left-wing nationalism Social democracy |
11.24% | 5 |
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| PP | List
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Daniel Sirera | Conservatism Christian democracy |
9.22% | 4 |
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| Vox | List
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Gonzalo de Oro | Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism |
5.71% | 2 |
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Opinion polls
editThe 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
editThe 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 are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | 
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| GESOP/El Periódico[p 1] | 13–18 Sep 2024 | 800 | ? | 18.4 8/9 |
23.1 11/12 |
17.0 8 |
11.2 5 |
9.5 4 |
5.8 2/3 |
5.0 0/1 |
– | – | – | 4.7 |
| 2024 EP election[7] | 9 Jun 2024 | — | 49.7 | 15.8 (7) |
29.9 (15) |
6.2 (3) |
13.8 (6) |
15.8 (7) |
5.0 (0) |
– | 6.7 (3) |
– | 2.0 (0) |
14.1 |
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 2] | 1 Apr–15 May 2024 | 1,280 | ? | 20.7 9 |
21.9 10 |
17.3 8 |
10.4 5 |
11.1 5 |
5.9 2 |
3.4 0 |
– | 5.2 2 |
– | 1.2 |
| 2024 regional election | 12 May 2024 | — | 61.3 | 19.6 (9) |
27.9 (13) |
8.9 (4) |
12.9 (6) |
13.8 (6) |
6.2 (3) |
4.7 (0) |
– | 2.1 (0) |
– | 8.3 |
| 2023 general election[7] | 23 Jul 2023 | — | 67.4 | 10.4 (4) |
33.2 (15) |
16.9 (8) |
12.2 (5) |
15.9 (7) |
5.8 (2) |
2.7 (0) |
[a] | – | – | 16.3 |
| 2023 municipal election | 28 May 2023 | — | 60.6 | 22.5 11 |
19.8 10 |
19.8 9 |
11.2 5 |
9.2 4 |
5.7 2 |
3.8 0 |
– | – | – | 2.7 |
Voting preferences
editThe table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
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| GESOP/El Periódico[p 1] | 13–18 Sep 2024 | 800 | 8.0 | 18.5 | 10.9 | 7.9 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 30.6 | 9.0 | 7.6 |
| Opinòmetre/City Council[p 3] | 25 Jun–4 Jul 2024 | 807 | 7.3 | 17.2 | 10.8 | 9.7 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 30.4 | 14.5 | 6.4 |
| Opinòmetre/City Council[p 4] | 15–24 Nov 2023 | 825 | 7.5 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 8.2 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 37.4 | 13.0 | 2.0 |
| 2023 municipal election | 28 May 2023 | — | 13.5 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 2.3 | — | 39.4 | 1.6 |
Preferred Mayor
editThe table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become mayor of Barcelona.
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Collboni PSC |
Colau BComú–C |
Maragall ERC |
Sirera PP |
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| Opinòmetre/City Council[p 5] | 30 May–8 Jun 2023 | 808 | 44.5 | 18.3 | 12.7 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 21.2 | 26.2 |
Notes
editReferences
edit- Opinion poll sources
- ^ a b "Encuesta elecciones Barcelona: El PSC se afianza en cabeza y Junts y los Comuns retroceden". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ "Encuesta elecciones Barcelona: El PSC se afianza en cabeza y Junts y los Comuns retroceden". Electomanía (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ "Baròmetre semestral de Barcelona. Primera onada 2024" (PDF). City Council of Barcelona (in Spanish). 23 July 2024.
- ^ "Baròmetre semestral de Barcelona. Segona onada 2023" (PDF). City Council of Barcelona (in Spanish). 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Baròmetre semestral de Barcelona. Primera onada 2023 (Post electoral). Juny 2023" (PDF). City Council of Barcelona (in Spanish). 23 July 2023.
- Other
- ^ a b c Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ a b c Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ López Congostrina, Alfonso (26 July 2024). "Xavier Trias abandona la política: "Hoy no diré que 'us bombin'. Hoy os daré las gracias"". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ Martín, Jordi (1 September 2024). "Martí Galbis ya preside el grupo municipal de Junts en Barcelona después de la marcha de Trias". El Nacional.cat (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ Llimós, Albert (8 September 2024). "Ada Colau confirma que deja el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, pero abre la puerta a volver a presentarse en el 2027". Ara (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ^ "Ernest Maragall abandona ERC tras la polémica de los carteles sobre su alzhéimer" (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Resultados electorales". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2024.