List of mayors of Barcelona
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Mayor of Barcelona | |
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Alcalde de Barcelona | |
since 17 June 2023 | |
Seat | Barcelona City Hall |
Appointer | City Council of Barcelona |
Term length | 4 years, renewable |
Constituting instrument | Organic Law 5/1985 |
Inaugural holder | Josep Marià de Cabanes i d'Escofet |
Formation | 1835 |
Website | https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/alcaldessa/es |
This is a list of mayors of Barcelona since 1835. The Mayor of Barcelona is the highest political authority of the Barcelona City Council. In accordance with Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, on the General Electoral Regime (currently in force), the mayor or mayoress is elected by the municipal corporation of councilors, who in turn are elected by universal suffrage by the citizens of Barcelona with the right to vote, through municipal elections held every four years. The candidate who obtains the absolute majority of the votes is proclaimed elected. If none of them obtains said majority, the councilor who heads the most voted list is proclaimed mayor.[1]
History
[edit]Barcelona City Council has had a total of 118 mayors since it was founded in 1835.[2] The first mayor of the city was José Mariano de Cabanes, who held office for six months, between November 1835 and April 1836. Among the mayors who have especially gone down in history, can be noted Francisco de Paula Rius i Taulet (promoting and holding the mayoralty at the Universal Exposition of 1888, during the Bourbon Restoration), Carles Pi i Sunyer (first mayor elected by universal suffrage, during the Second Republic), José María de Porcioles (mayor who held office the longest, during the Franco dictatorship), Narcís Serra (first mayor elected in the current democratic system), Pasqual Maragall (mayor who held office the longest in democracy as well as for promoting and holding the mayoralty in the 1992 Olympic Games) or Ada Colau (the first female mayor in the history of the city).
List of mayors
[edit]Spanish transition to democracy
[edit]# | Name | Portrait | Birth and death | Term in office | Council election | Party affiliation | ||
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Started | Ended | |||||||
110 | Joaquim Viola i Sauret | 26 June 1913 Cebreros – 25 January 1978 Barcelona (aged 64) |
18 September 1975 | 6 December 1976 | Not held | FET y de las JONS | ||
111 | Josep Maria Socías i Humbert | 23 August 1937 Barcelona – 3 November 2008 Barcelona (aged 71) |
6 December 1976 | 2 January 1979 (2 years, 27 days) | ||||
112 | Manuel Font i Altaba (Interim) | 1922 Barcelona – 2005 Barcelona (aged 83) |
2 January 1979 | 19 April 1979 (107 days) |
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113 | Narcís Serra | 30 May 1943 Barcelona |
19 April 1979 | 2 December 1982 (3 years, 227 days) |
1979 | Socialists' Party of Catalonia | ||
114 | Pasqual Maragall | 13 January 1941 Barcelona |
2 December 1982 | 26 September 1997 (14 years, 298 days) |
1983 1987 1991 1995 | |||
115 | Joan Clos | 29 June 1949 Parets del Vallès |
26 September 1997 | 8 September 2006 (8 years, 347 days) |
1999 2003 | |||
116 | Jordi Hereu | 14 June 1965 Barcelona |
8 September 2006 | 2 July 2011 (4 years, 297 days) |
2007 | |||
117 | Xavier Trias | 5 August 1946 Barcelona |
2 July 2011 | 13 June 2015 (3 years, 346 days) |
2011 | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | ||
118 | Ada Colau | 3 May 1974 Barcelona |
13 June 2015 | 17 June 2023 (8 years, 4 days) |
2015 2019 |
Barcelona En Comú | ||
119 | Jaume Collboni | 5 September 1969 Barcelona |
17 June 2023 | Incumbent (1 year, 145 days) |
2023 | Socialists' Party of Catalonia |
Timeline from 1979
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BOE-A-1985-11672 Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- ^ "Els Alcaldes de Barcelona des de 1835". ajuntament.barcelona.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ^ Soler, Jordi (2009). "Els Milans de Canet, un llinatge de la burgesia canetenca de metges, comerciants i músics". El Sot de l'Aubó. Vol. 30. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Media related to Mayors of Barcelona at Wikimedia Commons