2015 Barcelona City Council election

2015 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	1,161,140 0.2%
Turnout	703,590 (60.6%) 7.6 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ada Colau Xavier Trias Carina Mejías Party BComú–E CiU C's Leader since 5 February 2015 25 April 2002 16 December 2014 Last election 5 seats, 10.4%[a] 14 seats, 28.7% 0 seats, 1.9% Seats won 11 10 5 Seat change 6 4 5 Popular vote 176,612 159,393 77,272 Percentage 25.2% 22.8% 11.0% Swing 14.8 pp 5.9 pp 9.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alfred Bosch Jaume Collboni Alberto Fernández Díaz Party ERC–MES–BcnCO–A–AM PSC–CP PP Leader since 11 July 2014 5 May 2014 16 July 2002 Last election 2 seats, 5.6% 11 seats, 22.1% 9 seats, 17.2% Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 3 7 6 Popular vote 77,120 67,489 61,004 Percentage 11.0% 9.6% 8.7% Swing 5.4 pp 12.5 pp 8.5 pp
Mayor before election Xavier Trias CiU Elected Mayor Ada Colau BComú

The 2015 Barcelona City Council election, also the 2015 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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 election was won by the Barcelona en Comú (BComú) citizen platform, supported by Podemos, Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (ICV–EUiA) and Constituent Process (Procés Constituent) and led by Ada Colau popular activist and former spokeswoman of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH). Incumbent mayor Xavier Trias of the Convergence and Union (CiU) federation, who had campaigned for a second consecutive term in office, saw his support reduced from 14 to 10 out of 41 seats in the council. Citizens (C's) became the third largest political force in the city, whereas Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) obtained its second best historical result. On the other hand, both the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) and the People's Party (PP) were severely mauled. The PSC, which had won every municipal election in Barcelona and had controlled the local government up until 2011, fell to fifth place and below 10% of the share, while the PP achieved its worst result since the People's Alliance (AP) result in the 1987 election. The Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) also entered the City Council for the first time in history, winning 3 seats and 7.4% of the votes.

Colau went on to become the first female mayor of Barcelona in history with the support of the BComú, ERC, the PSC and one of the CUP councillors.^[1]

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