List of mayors of Barcelona explained

Post:	Mayor
Body:	Barcelona
Flagsize:	100px
Insignia:	Isotip Ajuntament de Barcelona.svg
Insigniasize:	100px
Insigniacaption:	Coat of arms of Barcelona
Native Name:	Alcalde de Barcelona
Incumbent:	Jaume Collboni
Incumbentsince:	17 June 2023
Termlength:	4 years, renewable
Formation:	1835
Inaugural:	Josep Marià de Cabanes i d'Escofet
Website:	https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/alcaldessa/es
Seat:	Barcelona City Hall
Constituting Instrument:	Organic Law 5/1985

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

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

	Name		Portrait	Term in office		Party affiliation
1		Josep Marià de Cabanes i d'Escofet		1835	1836	Progressive Party
2		Marià Vehils		1836	1836	Moderate Party
3		Marià Borrell		1836	1837	Progressive Party
4		Guillem Oliver i Salvà		1837	1839
5		Francesc Coll i Jové		1839	1839	Moderate Party
6		Jacint Feliu Domènech i Sastre		1839	1840	Progressive Party
7		Josep Maluquer i Montardit		1840	1841
8		Ramon Ferrer i Garcés		1841	1841
9		Tomàs Maria de Quintana i Badia		1841	1842
10		Josep Maria de Freixes i de Borràs		1842	1843
11		Josep Maluquer i Montardit		1843	1843
12		Josep Bertran i Ros		1843	1844	Moderate Party
13		Josep Parladé i Llucià		1844	1846
14		Erasme de Janer i de Gònima		1846	1846
15		Tomàs Metzger i Milans		1846	1847^[3]
16		Pere Bardají i Balanzat		1847	1848
17		Domingo Portefaix y Páez		1848	1849
18		Sebastià Garcia i Pego		1849	1849
19		Joan Pérez i Calvo		1849	1851
20		Ramon de Paternó		1851	1851
21		Santiago Lluís Dupuy de Lôme		1851	1852
22		Josep Bertran i Ros		1852	1854
23		Antoni Aherán		1854	1854
24		Ramon Ferrer i Garcés		1854	1854	Progressive Party
25		Antoni Viadera i Surreu		1854	1855
26		Josep Molins i Negre		1855	1856
27		Francesc Permanyer i Tuyets		1856	1856	Unión Liberal
28		Ramon Figueras		1856	1858	Moderate Party
29		Josep Santa-Maria i Gelbert		1858	1863	Unión Liberal
30		Joan Baptista Madremany		1863	1863	Moderate Party
31		Valentí Cabello		1863	1865
32		Antoni de Quevedo i Donis		1865	1866
33		Ramon de Mazón		1866	1866	Unión Liberal
34		Emili M. de Ortega		1866	1866	Moderate Party
35		Lluís Rodríguez i Tréllez		1866	1867
36		Joan López de Bustamante		1867	1868
37		Salvador Maluquer i Aytés		1868	1869	Progressive Party
38		Francesc Sunyer i Capdevila		1869	1869	Partit Republicà Democràtic Federal
39		Santiago Soler i Pla		1869	1869
40		Francesc Soler i Matas		1869	1872	Progressive Party
41		Francesc Rius i Taulet		1872	1873	Constitutional Party
42		Narcís Buxó i Prats		1873	1873	Partit Republicà Democràtic Federal
43		Miquel González i Sugranyes		1873	1874
44		Francesc Rius i Taulet		1874	1874	Constitutional Party
45		Ot Ferrer i Nin		1874	1875
46		Ramon Maria de Sentmenat i Despujol		1875	1876	Conservative Party
47		Manuel Girona i Agrafel		1876	1877
48		Albert Faura i Aranyó		1877	1879
49		Enric de Duran i de Duran		1879	1881
50		Francesc Rius i Taulet		1881	1884	Liberal Party
51		Albert Faura i Aranyó		1884	1884	Conservative Party
52		Joan Coll i Pujol		1884	1885
53		Francesc Rius i Taulet		1885	1890	Liberal Party
54		Fèlix Maciá i Bonaplata		1890	1890
55		Joan Coll i Pujol		1890	1891	Conservative Party
56		Manuel Porcar i Tió		1891	1892	Liberal Party
57		Domènec Martí i Gofau		1892	1893	Conservative Party
58		Camil Fabra i Fontanills		1893	1893	Liberal Party
59		Manuel Henrich i Girona		1893	1894
60		Josep Collaso i Gil		1894	1895
61		Josep Maria Rius i Badia		1895	1896	Conservative Party
62		Josep Maria de Nadal i Vilardaga		1896	1897
63		Joan Coll i Pujol		1897	1897
64		Josep Collaso i Gil		1897	1898	Liberal Party
65		Josep Griera i Dulcet		1898	1899	Conservative Party
66		Bartomeu Robert i Yarzábal		1899	1899
67		Josep Milà i Pi		1899	1900	Liberal Party
68		Joan Coll i Pujol		1900	1901	Conservative Party
69		Joan Amat i Sormaní		1901	1902	Liberal Party
70		Josep Monegal i Nogués		1902	1903	Conservative Party
71		Guillem de Boladeres i Romà		1903	1904
72		Gabriel Lluch i Anfruns		1904	1905	Liberal Party
73		Ròmul Bosch i Alsina		1905	1905
74		Salvador de Samà i Torrents		1905	1906
75		Domènec Sanllehy i Alrich		1906	1908	Conservative Party
76		Albert Bastardas i Sampere		1908	1909	Partit Republicà Autonomista
77		Joan Coll i Pujol		1909	1909	Conservative Party
78		Josep Collaso i Gil		1909	1910	Liberal Party
79		Josep Roig i Bergadà		1910	1910
80		Salvador de Samà i Torrents		1910	1911
81		Joaquim Sostres i Rey		1911	1913
82		Josep Collaso i Gil		1913	1913
83		Joaquim Sagnier i Villavecchia		1913	1914	Conservative Party
84		Guillem de Boladeres i Romà		1914	1915
85		Antoni Martínez i Domingo		1915	1916
86		Manuel Rius i Rius		1916	1917	Centre Nacionalista Republicà
87		Antonio Martínez Domingo (2)		1917	1917	Partido Conservador
88		Lluís Duran i Ventosa		1917	1917	Lliga Regionalista
89		Juan José Rocha García		1917	1918	PRR
90		Manuel Morales Pareja		1918	1919
91		Antonio Martínez Domingo (3)		1919	1922	Lliga Regionalista
92		Fernando Fabra i Puig		1922	1923	Partido Liberal
93	bgcolor=Black		Josep Banqué i Feliu		1923	1923	Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
94	bgcolor=Black		Fernando Álvarez de la Campa		1923	1924
95	bgcolor=Black		Darío Rumeu i Freixa		1924	1930
96		Juan Antonio Güell i López		1930	1931	Lliga Regionalista
97		Jaume Aiguader		1931	1934	ERC
98		Carles Pi i Sunyer (1)		1934	1934
99	bgcolor=Black		José Martínez Herrera		1934	1935	Military
100		Juan Pich y Pon		1935	1935	PRR
101		Francisco Jaumar de Bofarull		1935	1935	CEDA / APC
102		Ramon Coll i Rodés		1935	1936	Lliga Catalana
103		Carles Pi i Sunyer (2)		1936	1937	ERC
104		Hilari Salvadó i Castell		1937	1939
105		Miquel Mateu i Pla		1939	1945	FET y de las JONS
106		Josep M. Albert i Despujol		1945	1951
107		Antoni M. Simarro i Puig		1951	1957
108		Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer		1957	1973
109		Enric Massó i Vázquez		1973	1975

Spanish transition to democracy

	Name		Portrait	Birth and death	Term in office		Council election	Party affiliation
					Started	Ended
110				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
112		(Interim)		1922 Barcelona – 2005 Barcelona (aged 83)	2 January 1979	19 April 1979		-
113		Narcís Serra		30 May 1943 Barcelona	19 April 1979	2 December 1982	1979	Socialists' Party of Catalonia
114		Pasqual Maragall		13 January 1941 Barcelona	2 December 1982	26 September 1997	1983 1987 1991 1995
115		Joan Clos		29 June 1949 Parets del Vallès	26 September 1997	8 September 2006	1999 2003
116		Jordi Hereu		14 June 1965 Barcelona	8 September 2006	2 July 2011	2007
117		Xavier Trias		5 August 1946 Barcelona	2 July 2011	13 June 2015	2011	Democratic Convergence of Catalonia
118		Ada Colau		3 May 1974 Barcelona	13 June 2015	17 June 2023	2015 2019	Barcelona En Comú
119		Jaume Collboni		5 September 1969 Barcelona	17 June 2023	Incumbent	2023	Socialists' Party of Catalonia

See also

• Timeline of Barcelona
• Provincial Deputation of Barcelona
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• Consell de Cent

Notes and References

1. Web site: BOE-A-1985-11672 Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. . 2023-06-14 . www.boe.es.
2. Web site: Els Alcaldes de Barcelona des de 1835 . 2023-06-15 . ajuntament.barcelona.cat.
3. News: Soler . Jordi . 2009 . Els Milans de Canet, un llinatge de la burgesia canetenca de metges, comerciants i músics . 30 . El Sot de l'Aubó . 10 July 2011.