• Source: Comarcal council

The comarcal council (Catalan: consell comarcal, Galician: consello comarcal, Aragonese: concello 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 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 law-regulated mechanisms.




In Aragon






= Membership of the councils

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Council membership of a comarca is allocated according to its population using the following table:




In the Basque Country



Only in the province of Álava comarcas have administrative status, known as kuadrilla in Basque and cuadrilla in Spanish. There are Añana, Ayala/Aiara, Gorbeialdea, Plain of Alava, Riojan Alava, Alava Mountains and Vitoria. Their comarcal councils bear the name kuadrillako batzarra in Basque or junta de cuadrilla in Spanish (county assembly in English).
Out of all 7 Alavan cuadrillas, only the Vitoria cuadrilla does not have any cuadrilla institutions, thus only keeping the name symbolically for the natural comarca, since all governance is assumed by the city council of the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the only municipality that makes up that cuadrilla.




In Catalonia



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, who has full dedication to the execution of the tasks of the regional government and administration.
The Barcelonès comarcal council was formally abolished in 2019, rendering it the only comarca without one. 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

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Council membership of a comarca is allocated according to its population using the following table:



Comarcal Council of Alt Penedès




Comarcal Council of Alt Urgell




Comarcal Council of Alta Ribagorça




Comarcal Council of Anoia




Comarcal Council of Bages




Comarcal Council of Baix Camp




Comarcal Council of Baix Ebre




Comarcal Council of Baix Empordà




Comarcal Council of Baix Llobregat




Comarcal Council of Baix Penedès




Comarcal Council of Barcelonès




Comarcal Council of Berguedà




Comarcal Council of Cerdanya




Comarcal Council of Conca de Barberà




Comarcal Council of Garraf




Comarcal Council of Garrigues




Comarcal Council of Garrotxa




Comarcal Council of Gironès




Comarcal Council of Lluçanès

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Comarcal Council of Maresme




Comarcal Council of Moianès




Comarcal Council of Montsià




Comarcal Council of Noguera




Comarcal Council of Osona




Comarcal Council of Pallars Jussà




Comarcal Council of Pallars Sobirà




Comarcal Council of Pla d'Urgell




Comarcal Council of Pla de l'Estany




Comarcal Council of Priorat




Comarcal Council of Ribera d'Ebre




Comarcal Council of Ripollès




Comarcal Council of Segarra




Comarcal Council of Segrià




Comarcal Council of Selva




Comarcal Council of Solsonès




Comarcal Council of Tarragonès




Comarcal Council of Terra Alta




Comarcal Council of Urgell




Comarcal Council of Vallès Occidental




Comarcal Council of Vallès Oriental





In Castile and León






References






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

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