2007 Barcelona municipal election

2007 Barcelona municipal election
27 May 2007
All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,234,368 3.7%
Turnout612,509 (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 17 May 2002 17 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 16 May 1998
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

A municipal election was held in Barcelona on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 8th City Council of the municipality. All 41 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

Overview

Under the 1978 Constitution, the governance of municipalities in Spain—part of the country's local government system—was centered on the figure of city councils (Spanish: ayuntamientos), local corporations with independent legal personality composed of a mayor, a government council and an elected legislative assembly.[1][2] In the case of Barcelona, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Barcelona.[3]

Electoral system

Voting for local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Barcelona and in full enjoyment of their political rights (provided that they were not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote, nor being legally incapacitated), 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.[2][4][5]

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes (which included blank ballots) being applied in each municipality.[6] Each municipality constituted a multi-member constituency, entitled a number of seats based on the following scale:[7]

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 law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term were to be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes.[8]

The mayor was indirectly elected by the local assembly.[2] A legal clause required candidates to earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee was to be determined by lot.[9]

Election date

The term of city councils in Spain expired four years after the date of their previous election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years (as of 2026, this has been the year before a leap year). The election decree was required to be issued no later than the fifty-fifth day prior to the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE).[10] The previous local elections were held on 25 May 2003, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 27 May 2007.

Local councils could not be dissolved before the expiry of their term, except in cases of mismanagement that seriously harmed the public interest and implied a breach of constitutional obligations, in which case the Council of Ministers could—optionally—agree to call a by-election.[11]

Elections to local councils were officially called on 3 April 2007 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 27 May.[12]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance 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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[13] Amendments to the electoral law in 2007 introduced requirements for a balanced composition of men and women in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[14]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSC–PM
List
 Jordi Hereu Social democracy 33.6% 15 [15]
[16]
CiU
List
 Xavier Trias Catalan nationalism
Centrism 		21.4% 9 [17]
PP
List
 Alberto Fernández Díaz Conservatism
Christian democracy 		16.1% 7 [18]
ERC–AM
List
 Jordi Portabella Catalan independence
Left-wing nationalism
Social democracy 		12.8% 5 [19]
ICV–
EUiA–EPM
List
 Imma Mayol Regionalism
Eco-socialism
Green politics 		12.1% 5 [20]
[21]
C's
List
 Esperanza García Liberalism Did not contest [22]
[23]

Incumbent Joan Clos had initially intended to run for re-election,[24] but his appointment as minister of Industry in the government of Spain under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero saw Jordi Hereu becoming new mayor in September 2006.[15][25]

Opinion polls

The 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

The 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 were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Preferred Mayor

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become mayor of Barcelona.

All candidates
Hereu vs. Trias
Clos vs. Trias

Predicted Mayor

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood for each leader to become mayor.

Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 City Council of Barcelona election results →
Parties and alliances 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[26][27][28][29]
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%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Ballot → 16 June 2007
Required majority → 21 out of 41
18 / 41
 Y
12 / 41
 N
  • • PP (7)
7 / 41
 N
4 / 41
 N
Abstentions/Blank ballots
0 / 41
Absentees
0 / 41
Sources[26][30]

References

Opinion poll sources

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  2. ^ "El PP se crece en Madrid y Valencia y el PSOE amarra Barcelona y Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
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  15. ^ "Hereu y Trias empatarían en las elecciones municipales de Barcelona, según una encuesta de CiU". Europa Press (in Spanish). 9 October 2006.
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Other

  1. ^ Constitution (1978), art. 140.
  2. ^ a b c LBRL (1985), art. 19.
  3. ^ LBRL (1985), arts. 121–132.
  4. ^ Constitution (1978), art. 13.
  5. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3 & 176.
  6. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 163 & 180.
  7. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 179.
  8. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 46, 48 & 182.
  9. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 196.
  10. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 42 & 194.
  11. ^ LBRL (1985), art. 61.
  12. ^ Real Decreto 444/2007, de 2 de abril, por el que se convocan elecciones locales y a las Asambleas de Ceuta y Melilla, para el 27 de mayo de 2007 (PDF) (Royal Decree 444/2007). Official State Gazette (in Spanish). 2 April 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  13. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 44 & 187.
  14. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 44 bis.
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  17. ^ "CiU designa a Trias como candidato para las municipales de 2007". El País (in Spanish). 6 November 2005. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  18. ^ "Fernández Díaz promete una Barcelona de "ley y orden y sin 'okupas"". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. 4 March 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  19. ^ "ERC elige a Jordi Portabella candidato a la Alcaldía de Barcelona". El Mundo (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 22 April 2006. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  20. ^ "ICV elige a Inma Mayol 'alcaldable' por Barcelona con el 92,85% de los votos". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
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  22. ^ "Una abogada lidera la lista de Ciutadans por Barcelona". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 19 March 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
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