Barcelona City Council election, 1995

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28 May 1995

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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.

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