In Arbent, turnout was lower than in 98% of compared French communes
The register of elected officials lists 27 councilors for Arbent but no mayor. A single list stood in March 2026, POUR ARBENT, POURSUIVONS ENSEMBLE, and took all 27 seats. Arbent is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Haut - Bugey Agglomération.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Ain and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Arbent’s town hall
A single list
Only one list stood in Arbent on March 15, 2026: POUR ARBENT, POURSUIVONS ENSEMBLE. It took all 27 seats; with no rival list, voters could only vote for it, cast a blank ballot or stay at home. 2026 elections ↓
Turnout below most communes
37.8% of registered voters in Arbent voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 98% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Ain was 51.9%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
A big year for investment
Arbent invested €612 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 35% of its spending: higher than in 76% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. The commune’s money ↓
Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- POUR ARBENT, POURSUIVONS ENSEMBLE273 community seats
As elected in the first round, March 15, 2026.
The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority. The same vote gave Arbent 3 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Haut - Bugey Agglomération (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
4 authorities share the work
The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.
Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.
27 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.
Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.
Who to ask
The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.
Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.
The 27 members of the Arbent municipal council
The mayor and 0 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Mourad Bensalem | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Carole Bernuit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Blondel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jocelyne Bottier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corinne Brenet Grandet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Guy Cavazza | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc Chatelain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Cracchiolo | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Delalande | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Dessors | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Duran | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabel Duret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Francis Fenard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Flageollet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Carmen Flore | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Gamba | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Julliand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Delphine Maret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aline Maret-Guelpa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antonio Marques | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Masa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christiane Movellan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Perrin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Chantal Robin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Julie Rodrigues-Pallordet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mohamed Souaker | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sorin Stan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
How Arbent voted in March 2026
A single list stood.
788 votes cast for a list
875 of 2,315 registered voters in Arbent voted.
53 blank and 34 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026
Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.
2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Arbent spends €1,758 per resident a year
The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.
Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes
Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025
Arbent owed €2.1M at the end of 2025, €578 per resident, lower than in 65% of compared French communes, equal to 50% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,758 | €612 | €578 | €2.1M |
| 2024 | €1,933 | €751 | €574 | €2M |
| 2023 | €2,053 | €899 | €499 | €1.7M |
| 2022 | €1,778 | €681 | €404 | €1.4M |
| 2021 | €1,519 | €566 | €540 | €1.9M |
| 2020 | €1,335 | €351 | €673 | €2.3M |
| 2019 | €1,561 | €585 | €827 | €2.9M |
| 2018 | €1,231 | €230 | €920 | €3.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 14th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Messimy, €3. Highest: Deauville, €4,267.
Have a say in Arbent
French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.
service-public.fr ↗See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.
service-public.fr ↗Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.
service-public.fr ↗Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Arbent in the public services directory.
lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.
interieur.gouv.fr ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
- How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
- The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
- The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
- Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
- The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.
Questions about Arbent’s town hall
How many councilors does Arbent have?
The Arbent municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 0 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Arbent?
Only one list stood: POUR ARBENT, POURSUIVONS ENSEMBLE, which took all 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Arbent?
37.8% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.
When are the next municipal elections in Arbent?
Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.
How much debt does Arbent have?
€2.1M at the end of 2025, €578 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Arbent part of?
Arbent is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Haut - Bugey Agglomération, which runs the services its communes share.
Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.