1995 Barcelona City Council election

1995 Barcelona City Council election

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All 41 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,368,148 0.9%
Turnout	906,038 (66.2%) 10.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pasqual Maragall Miquel Roca Enrique Lacalle Party PSC–PSOE CiU PP Leader since 2 December 1982 7 July 1994 1987 Last election 20 seats, 42.9% 16 seats, 34.1% 4 seats, 9.8% Seats won 16 13 7 Seat change 4 3 3 Popular vote 347,083 276,276 150,284 Percentage 38.4% 30.6% 16.6% Swing 4.5 pp 3.5 pp 6.8 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Eulàlia Vintró Pilar Rahola Party IC–EV ERC Leader since 1987 11 March 1995 Last election 3 seats, 6.4% 0 seats, 2.6% Seats won 3 2 Seat change ±0 2 Popular vote 68,813 46,272 Percentage 7.6% 5.1% Swing 1.2 pp 2.5 pp
Mayor before election Pasqual Maragall PSC Elected Mayor Pasqual Maragall PSC

The 1995 Barcelona City Council election, also the 1995 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th 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.

The unveiling of numerous corruption scandals throughout 1994 affecting Felipe González's Socialist government marked the electoral campaign. For the first time in 16 years, a real possibility for change in the local government resulted in a heated race between Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) candidate and incumbent Mayor Pasqual Maragall and Convergence and Union (CiU) candidate Miquel Roca. Another factors influencing the political debate were the People's Party (PP) rise in opinion polls as well as Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) recovery.

The election resulted in a surprising comfortable win for PSC and Pasqual Maragall, which was elected for a fourth consecutive term in office with 16 seats and 38.4%. On the other hand, CiU suffered from the PP growth and obtained its worst result since 1983, winning 13 seats and 30.6%. The People's Party nearly doubled its 1991 result with 7 seats and 16.6%, while both Initiative for Catalonia (IC) and ERC improved their electoral performances, with the latter narrowly surpassing the 5% threshold to enter the City Council.