2007 Barcelona City Council election

The 2007 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2007 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 8th 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.

2007 Barcelona City Council election

27 May 2007
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,234,368 3.7%
Turnout	612,509 (49.6%) 9.6 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jordi Hereu Xavier Trias Alberto Fernández Díaz Party PSC–PM CiU PP Leader since 8 September 2006 25 April 2002 16 July 2002 Last election 15 seats, 33.6% 9 seats, 21.4% 7 seats, 16.1% Seats won 14 12 7 Seat change 1 3 0 Popular vote 182,216 155,101 95,083 Percentage 29.9% 25.5% 15.6% Swing 3.7 pp 4.1 pp 0.5 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Imma Mayol Jordi Portabella Party ICV–EUiA–EPM ERC–AM Leader since 1998 1999 Last election 5 seats, 12.1% 5 seats, 12.8% Seats won 4 4 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 56,953 53,707 Percentage 9.3% 8.8% Swing 2.8 pp 4.0 pp
Mayor before election Jordi Hereu PSC Elected Mayor Jordi Hereu PSC

Electoral system

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.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2]

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 five 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.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population	Councillors
<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 was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[1]

The electoral law allowed 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 were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[2]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates 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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 21 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout							Lead
2007 municipal election	27 May 2007	N/A	49.6	29.9 14	25.5 12	15.6 7	8.8 4	9.3 4	3.9 0	4.4
Ipsos/RTVE–FORTA[p 1]	27 May 2007	?	?	30.0 14/16	24.0 11/13	13.4 6/7	9.9 4/5	9.9 3/4	–	6.0
Opina/La Vanguardia[p 2]	7–16 May 2007	600	?	34.9 15/16	24.5 10/11	13.4 6	9.9 4	12.3 5	3.5 0	10.4
Opina/El País[p 3][p 4]	14 May 2007	600	?	36.0 15/16	22.0 9/10	15.0 6	11.5 5	11.5 5	–	14.0
GESOP/El Periódico[p 1][p 5]	9–11 May 2007	800	?	34.1 15/16	23.3 10/11	13.9 6	10.1 4/5	12.2 5/6	2.6 0	10.8
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 5]	2–9 May 2007	500	?	38.5 17	22.7 10	18.2 8	7.5 3	7.7 3	–	15.8
TNS Demoscopia/Antena 3[p 6][p 7]	8 May 2007	?	?	? 15/16	? 10/11	? 7	? 4/5	? 5/6	–	?
Opina/Cadena SER[p 8][p 9]	7 May 2007	800	?	36.9 15/16	22.9 10/11	15.0 6	12.0 5	9.6 4	2.0 0	14.0
CIS[p 10]	9–29 Apr 2007	991	?	32.0 14	21.9 9/10	13.2 5/6	14.0 6	13.3 6	2.7 0	10.1
2006 regional election[3]	1 Nov 2006	N/A	60.6	24.3 11	29.5 14	13.3 6	12.1 5	12.0 5	4.5 0	5.2
GAPS/CiU[p 11]	18–28 Sep 2006	800	?	27.0– 28.0 12/13	27.6– 28.6 12/13	? 6/7	? 4/5	? 5/6	–	0.6
CiU[p 12]	29 Nov 2005	800	?	26.0 12	25.0 11	17.0 7/8	14.0 5/6	12.0 5	–	1.0
2004 EP election[4]	13 Jun 2004	N/A	43.7	40.1 17	16.1 7	21.9 9	10.3 4	9.1 4	–	18.2
2004 general election[5]	14 Mar 2004	N/A	77.9	38.1 16	20.0 8	18.1 8	14.6 6	6.9 3	–	18.1
2003 municipal election	25 May 2003	N/A	59.2	33.6 15	21.4 9	16.1 7	12.8 5	12.1 5	–	12.2

Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 City Council of Barcelona election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Socialists' Party of Catalonia–Municipal Progress (PSC–PM)	182,216	29.91	–3.69	14	–1
	Convergence and Union (CiU)	155,101	25.46	+4.05	12	+3
	People's Party (PP)	95,083	15.61	–0.51	7	±0
	Initiative–EUiA–Agreement for Municipal Progress (ICV–EUiA–EPM)	56,953	9.35	–2.72	4	–1
	Republican Left of Catalonia–Municipal Agreement (ERC–AM)	53,707	8.81	–3.99	4	–1
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	23,625	3.88	New	0	±0
	The Greens–The Ecologist Alternative (EV–AE)	4,754	0.78	New	0	±0
	Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	3,073	0.50	New	0	±0
	Unsubmissive Seats–Alternative of Discontented Democrats (Ei–ADD)	2,290	0.38	+0.28	0	±0
	Catalan Republican Party (RC)	1,214	0.20	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Catalan People (PCPC)	972	0.16	New	0	±0
	Republican Left–Left Republican Party (IR–PRE)	822	0.13	New	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	717	0.12	New	0	±0
	Barcelona for Self-determination (BxA–FIC)	692	0.11	New	0	±0
	Carmel/Blue Party (PAzul)	618	0.10	New	0	±0
	Citizen Force (FC's)	591	0.10	New	0	±0
	Family and Life Party (PFiV)	463	0.08	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	402	0.07	±0.00	0	±0
	Platform for Catalonia (PxC)	351	0.06	+0.02	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	270	0.04	–0.03	0	±0
	Internationalist Struggle (LI (LIT–CI))	209	0.03	±0.00	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	183	0.03	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		25,002	4.10	+2.42
Total		609,308			41	±0
Valid votes		609,308	99.48	–0.17
Invalid votes		3,201	0.52	+0.17
Votes cast / turnout		612,509	49.62	–9.62
Abstentions		621,859	50.38	+9.62
Registered voters		1,234,368
Sources[6][7][8][9]

Popular vote PSC–PM   29.91% CiU   25.46% PP   15.61% ICV–EUiA–EPM   9.35% ERC–AM   8.81% C's   3.88% Others   2.89% Blank ballots   4.10%

Seats PSC–PM   34.15% CiU   29.27% PP   17.07% ICV–EUiA–EPM   9.76% ERC–AM   9.76%

References

Opinion poll sources

1. "Sondejos". Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
2. "El PSC resiste el avance de CiU en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 19 May 2007.
3. "El PP se crece en Madrid y Valencia y el PSOE amarra Barcelona y Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
4. "El tripartito repite en Barcelona pese a un ligero avance de CiU". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
5. "Ficha técnica de las encuestas. Barcelona". Ajuntament de Barcelona (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
6. "Hereu y Gallardón disienten sobre la seguridad en las grandes ciudades". El País (in Spanish). 8 May 2007.
7. "Una encuesta augura que el tripartito repite en BCN". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 8 May 2007.
8. "El PSC seguirá gobernando en Barcelona y mejora sus resultados". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
9. "INFORME BARCELONA CIUDAD. Mayo 2007". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
10. "Preelectoral elecciones municipales, 2007. Ciudad de Barcelona (Estudio nº 2704. Abril-Mayo 2007)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
11. "Hereu y Trias empatarían en las elecciones municipales de Barcelona, según una encuesta de CiU". Europa Press (in Spanish). 9 October 2006.
12. "Una encuesta de CiU ve un empate Trias-Clos si ahora hubiera elecciones". ABC (in Spanish). 29 November 2005.

Other

1. "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
3. "Electoral results. Parliament of Catalonia election 2006. Barcelona (Municipality)". resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat (in Catalan). Government of Catalonia. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
4. "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. June 2004. Barcelona Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
5. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. March 2004. Barcelona Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
6. "Election Results. Municipal Elections 2007. Barcelona". resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat (in Catalan). Government of Catalonia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
7. "Local election results, 27 May 2007" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
8. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2007. Barcelona Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
9. "Municipal elections in Barcelona since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.