The May 1909 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 2 May 1909, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 28 out of 50 seats were up for election (3 were vacant seats).
Electoral system The number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.
The Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona.
Results + ← Summary of the 2 May 1909 Barcelona City Council election results → Party Vote Seats Votes % ±pp Won Total +/− Radical Republican Party (PRR) 63,231 40.48 −7.84 16 25 −6 Federal Democratic Republican Party (PRDF) 45,223 28.95 +23.81 8 11 +11 Regionalist League of Catalonia (LR) 38,728 24.80 −11.38 4 14 −5 Social Defence Committee (DS) 6,949 4.45 +1.38 0 0 ±0 Traditionalist Communion (CT) 1,233 0.79 New 0 0 ±0 Liberal Party (PL) 578 0.37 N/A 0 0 ±0 Independent Republicans (Rep.i) 245 0.16 −1.11 0 0 ±0 Total 156,187 100.00 28 50 − Source:La Veu de Catalunya, 7-5-1909, p.2
Results by district District PRR PRDF LR DS CT PL Rep.i % S % S % S % S % S % S % S I Barceloneta−El Poblenou 65.3 2 17.4 − 14.5 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 2.8 − 0.0 − II La Ribera 34.6 1 25.8 − 29.1 1 5.8 − 0.0 − 4.8 − 0.0 − III Barri Gòtic 19.3 − 32.1 2 30.5 1 9.4 − 8.8 − 0.0 − 0.0 − IV Dreta de l'Eixample 29.0 1 27.1 − 31.1 1 12.8 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − V Raval 46.7 2 28.4 1 22.2 − 2.7 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − VI Esquerra de l'Eixample 36.8 2 29.4 1 26.3 − 7.5 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − VII Sants-Poble Sec 49.5 3 28.8 2 20.6 − 1.1 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − VIII Gràcia 37.5 3 32.3 1 26.1 − 4.1 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − IX Sant Andreu−Horta 37.2 1 32.6 1 30.2 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − X Sant Martí 53.4 1 20.8 − 20.9 1 0.0 − 0.0 − 0.0 − 4.9 − Total 40.5 16 29.0 8 24.8 4 4.4 − 0.8 − 0.4 − 0.2 −
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