List of mayors of Barcelona

Mayor of Barcelona
Mayor of Barcelona
Alcalde de Barcelona
	Coat of arms of Barcelona
	Incumbent; Jaume Collboni ; 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

Last updated December 18, 2024

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

#		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	Progressive Party
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	Partit Republicà Democràtic Federal
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	Partit Republicà Democràtic Federal
44	Francesc Rius i Taulet	1874	1874	Constitutional Party
45	Ot Ferrer i Nin	1874	1875	Constitutional Party
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	Conservative Party
53	Francesc Rius i Taulet	1885	1890	Liberal Party
54	Fèlix Maciá i Bonaplata	1890	1890	Liberal Party
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	Conservative Party
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	Conservative Party
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	PRR
91	Antonio Martínez Domingo (3)	1919	1922	Lliga Regionalista
92	Fernando Fabra i Puig	1922	1923	Partido Liberal
93	Josep Banqué i Feliu	1923	1923	Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
94	Fernando Álvarez de la Campa	1923	1924
95	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	ERC
99	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	ERC
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
#	Name		Portrait	Birth and death	Started	Ended	Council election	Party affiliation
110		Joaquim Viola i Sauret [ es ]		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)		FET y de las JONS
112		Manuel Font i Altaba [ es ](Interim)		1922 Barcelona – 2005 Barcelona (aged 83)	2 January 1979	19 April 1979 (107 days)		-
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, 183 days)	2023	Socialists' Party of Catalonia

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↑ "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.

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[1] "BOE-A-1985-11672 Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2023-06-14.

[2] "Els Alcaldes de Barcelona des de 1835". ajuntament.barcelona.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

[3] 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.

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