The comarcal council (Catalan: consell comarcal, Galician: consello comarcal, Spanish: consejo comarcal), also somewhat misleadingly referred to as county council, is a local administration and government body in the comarcas of some parts of Spain, mostly in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque Country.

The comarcal council is normally constituted by representatives of the municipalities within the comarcal demarcation, who are elected according to some defined mechanisms given by a promulgated law.

In Catalonia

Comarques of Catalonia

Anoia Bages Segarra Solsonès Conca de Barberà Lluçanès Moianès Osona Berguedà Cerdanya Alt Urgell Pallars Sobirà Val d'Aran Alta Ribagorça Pallars Jussà Noguera Urgell Pla d'Urgell Segrià Garrigues Alt Penedès Baix Llobregat Barcelonès Vallès Occidental Maresme Vallès Oriental Ripollès Garrotxa Alt Empordà Pla de l'Estany Gironès Selva Baix Empordà Garraf Baix Penedès Tarragonès Alt Camp Baix Camp Priorat Ribera d'Ebre Terra Alta Baix Ebre Montsià Northern Catalonia/ Pyrénées-Orientales (France) France Andorra Aragon Valencia Mediterranean Sea

In Catalonia, the councilors of each of the comarcal councils are elected indirectly every four years from the results of the municipal elections of each of the municipalities that make up the comarca. They are elected under a mixed system of party-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method where both the number of votes obtained for each candidacy and the number of city councilors are taken into account.

Formally created in 1987, there are currently 41 comarcal councils in Catalonia. They configure the lowest system of government after the city council itself, with its organization configured with a collegial body, the plenary session, and a unipersonal body, the President. The plenary session is made up of councilors of each of the city councils of the municipalities that make up the comarca.

The plenary session chooses the President. They also count with a manager fully integrated in the administration, akin to a city manager, has full dedication to the execution of the tasks of the regional government and administration.

Currently and due to its recent inception, it is only scheduled for the Lluçanès comarca to constitute its first comarcal council after the 2027 local elections.

Membership of the councils

Comarcal Council of Baix Llobregat

Deputies in the Comarcal Council of Baix Llobregat since 1987
Key to parties   CUP   EUiA   ICV   ICV–EUiA–EPM   BComú–E (ENTESA)   En Comú–ECG   ECG–C   ERC   PSC   JxCat   Junts   CDS   CiU   Cs   PP   PxC   Vox
Election	Distribution	President
1987	9 18 1 11	José Montilla (PSC)
1991	7 19 12 1
1995	9 1 16 9 4	José Montilla (PSC)
		José Luis Morlanes Galindo (PSC)
1999	1 7 1 19 8 3	José Luis Morlanes Galindo (PSC)
2003	8 4 17 6 4	Rosa Boladeras Serraviñals (PSC)
2007	7 4 17 6 1 4
2011	8 2 14 8 6 1	Joaquim Balsera García (PSC)
		Lourdes Borrell Moreno (PSC)
		Josep Perpinyà i Palau (PSC)
2015	1 7 6 13 5 4 3	Josep Perpinyà i Palau (PSC)
2019	5 9 16 4 4 1	Eva Martínez Morales (PSC)
2023	5 7 17 4 4 2

Comarcal Council of Barcelonès

Deputies in the Comarcal Council of Barcelonès since 1987 until 2019
Key to parties   CUP   ICV   ICV–EUiA–EPM   BComú–E (ENTESA)   ERC   PSC   CiU   Cs   PP   AP
Election	Distribution	President
1987	7 22 9 1	Joan Blanch (PSC)
1991	6 21 10 2
1995	6 1 17 9 6
1999	2 1 23 7 6	Maite Arqué (PSC)
2003	5 3 18 7 6	Joan Carles Mas (PSC)
2007	4 2 17 9 7
2011	5 1 14 10 9	Jesús María Canga Castaño (PSC)
		Francesc Josep Belver (PSC)
2015	4 8 4 8 6 4 5	Francesc Josep Belver (PSC)
Council approved self-dissolution in 2017, formally abolished since 2019. Superseded by the Metropolitan Council of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB).

Comarcal Council of Maresme

Deputies in the Comarcal Council of Maresme since 1987
Key to parties   CUP   ICV   ICV–EUiA–EPM   BComú–E (ENTESA)   En Comú–ECG   ECG–C   ERC   AAEM   PSC   JxCat   Junts   PDeCAT   CiU   Cs   PP   PxC   Vox
Election	Distribution	President
1987	1 11 3 17 1	Ramon Camp (CiU)
1991	1 1 2 11 16 2	Ramon Camp (CiU)
		Joaquim Rey (CiU)
1995	2 3 9 15 4	Joaquim Rey (CiU)
1999	2 3 12 12 4	Josep Jo (PSC)
2003	3 5 10 11 4	Manuel Mas (PSC)
		Pere Almera (PSC)
2007	3 5 11 11 3	Josep Jo (PSC)
2011	1 3 4 9 12 4 1	Miquel Àngel Martínez (CiU)
2015	3 2 9 6 9 2 2	Josep Triadó (JxCat)
2019	2 2 12 8 6 2 1	Damià del Clot (ERC)
2023	1 2 8 9 9 1 2 1	Francesc Alemany (ERC)

Comarcal Council of Vallès Occidental

Deputies in the Comarcal Council of Vallès Occidental since 1987
Key to parties   CUP   ICV   ICV–EUiA–EPM   BComú–E (ENTESA)   En Comú–ECG   ECG–C   ERC   Independent   TxT   PSC   JxCat   Junts   CiU   Cs   PP   Vox
Election	Distribution	President
1987	11 14 13 1	Antoni Farrés i Sabater (PSUC)
1991	8 1 15 14 1	Oriol Civil (PSC)
		Carles Ferré (PSC)
1995	10 2 12 11 4	Carles Ferré (PSC)
1999	1 6 2 16 10 4	Carles Ferré (PSC)
		Teresa Padrós (PSC)
2003	5 5 17 8 4	Josep Vilaró (PSC)
2007	5 4 1 16 9 4	Antoni Rebolleda (PSC)
2011	5 3 1 13 11 6	Pepita Pedraza (PSC)
2015	5 6 7 9 6 4 2	Ignasi Giménez Renom (PSC)
2019	2 3 10 2 12 5 4 1
2023	2 3 7 2 14 5 3 3

Comarcal Council of Vallès Oriental

Deputies in the Comarcal Council of Vallès Oriental since 1987
Key to parties   CUP   ICV   ICV–EUiA–EPM   BComú–E (ENTESA)   En Comú–ECG   ECG–C   ERC   AAEVO   PSC   JxCat   Junts   PDeCAT   CiU   Cs   PP   Vox
Election	Distribution	President
1987	3 2 11 17	Josep Serratusell (CDC)
1991	3 1 3 12 14	Jordi Terrades (PSC)
1995	3 3 3 10 12 2
1999	1 3 14 13 2
2003	4 5 12 10 2	Joan Castaño (PSC)
2007	3 4 14 10 2	Antonio Rísquez (PSC)
2011	4 4 12 10 3	José Orive (PSC)
2015	2 4 8 9 8 1 1	David Ricart (ERC)
2019	1 2 11 10 7 2	Emilio Cordero (PSC)
2023	1 3 8 12 8 1

Bibliography

• Moreno, Angel M. (June 2016). Merloni, Francesco (ed.). Regionalisation Trends in European Countries 2007-2015: Spain. Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of The Council of Europe. pp. 183–191.
• Albet i Mas, Abel (2019). "The municipal map in Spain: structure, evolution and problems". Geopolitica(s). Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder (in Spanish). 10 (1): 11–40. doi:10.5209/GEOP.63834.

See also

• Local government in Spain
• Comarcas of Spain