GeographyScaleBoundary logicConfigurationEquity weighting
City of BarcelonaMunicipal or citywideAdministrativeNested—
Ten districtsDistrictAdministrativeParallelFloor-plus-need
73 barrisNeighborhoodAdministrativeNestedBarri balance quotas
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The process runs across the whole city but the district is the unit for proposing, shortlisting, voting and spending: every project must sit in one district (a project touching several must be assigned to one), each of the ten districts (Ciutat Vella, L'Eixample, Sants-Montjuïc, Les Corts, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Gràcia, Horta-Guinardó, Nou Barris, Sant Andreu, Sant Martí) has its own pot, shortlist and ballot, and voters aged 14 and over choose in their district of residence plus one other of their choosing. Supports in the shortlisting phase, by contrast, have no territorial limit. Districts are treated by floor-plus-need: half the 30 million is shared equally and half by population, income, density, life expectancy and surface area, which is why Les Corts gets 2,000,000 euros and Ciutat Vella, Sants-Montjuïc, Nou Barris and Sant Martí 3,600,000 each. Inside each district the 2024 rules add barri balance quotas on the 25-proposal shortlist: all barris must be represented in districts with 6 or fewer barris, at least 6 in districts with 7 or 8, and at least 8 in districts with 10 or more (Horta-Guinardó 11, Nou Barris 13, Sant Martí 10), provided technically valid proposals exist there; district-wide proposals count as one extra barri; and no single barri may hold more than 60 percent of the shortlist (15) in districts with 5 or fewer barris or 40 percent (10) elsewhere. The 2025 results list proposals by barri or as district-wide, and the 2026 decree allows remainders from one district to cover deviations in another. The evaluation reports the first edition's district execution rates ranging from 63.3 percent in Nou Barris to 97 percent in Sants-Montjuïc.

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