Barcelona City Council election, 1991

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26 May 1991

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All 43 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
22 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

1,381,148

2.9%

Turnout

766,520 (55.5%)

13.4 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Pasqual Maragall	Josep Maria Cullell	Enrique Lacalle
Party	PSC–PSOE	CiU	PP
Leader since	2 December 1982	1987	1987
Last election	21 seats, 43.6%	17 seats, 35.5%	3 seats, 7.6%
Seats won	20	16	4
Seat change	1	1	1
Popular vote	328,282	260,344	74,804
Percentage	42.9%	34.1%	9.8%
Swing	0.7 pp	1.4 pp	2.2 pp

	Fourth party

Leader	Eulàlia Vintró
Party	IC
Leader since	1987
Last election	2 seats, 5.2%
Seats won	3
Seat change	1
Popular vote	49,034
Percentage	6.4%
Swing	1.2 pp

Mayor before election

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

Elected Mayor

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

The 1991 Barcelona City Council election, also the 1991 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 4th City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 43 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 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. 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-nationals 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 5 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. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

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