Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC0Bourg-en-Bresse elected its council in the first round
Jean-François Debat has been mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse since March 21, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Bourg nous rassemble won 35 of the 43 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.6% of the votes. Bourg-en-Bresse is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse.
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 Bourg-en-Bresse’s town hall
Won in the first round
Bourg nous rassemble won 55.6% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 5 lists stood. It took 35 of the 43 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.9% of registered voters in Bourg-en-Bresse voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 72% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Ain was 51.9%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Bourg-en-Bresse owed €44.5M at the end of 2025, €1,018 per resident: higher than in 69% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 73% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- Bourg nous rassemble3526 community seats
- BOURG AMBITION - DROITE UNIE32 community seats
- AGIR ENSEMBLE !32 community seats
- VIVRE BOURG DEMAIN22 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 Bourg-en-Bresse 32 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse (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.
Mayor: Jean-François Debat · 43 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.
From the mayor to the intercommunality
The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.
- 1Mayorsince March 21, 2026Jean-François Debat
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilIsabelle MaistreThierry DoschNadia Ouled-SalemChristophe NiogretClaudie Saint-AndréFabrice CanetCharline LiotierSébastien Guéraud+4 more
- 3Bourg-en-Bresse municipal council43 seats by listBourg nous rassemble 35 · BOURG AMBITION - DROITE UNIE 3 · AGIR ENSEMBLE ! 3 · VIVRE BOURG DEMAIN 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-BresseBourg-en-Bresse holds 32 seatsCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 43 members of the Bourg-en-Bresse municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-François Debat | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Isabelle Maistre | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Thierry Dosch | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nadia Ouled-Salem | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Niogret | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Claudie Saint-André | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Fabrice Canet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Charline Liotier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sébastien Guéraud | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Leïna Chaïbi | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Benjamin Ziziemsky | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexa Cortinovis | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Baptiste Daujat | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-François Debat | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Isabelle Maistre | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Thierry Dosch | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nadia Ouled-Salem | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Niogret | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Claudie Saint-André | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Fabrice Canet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Charline Liotier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sébastien Guéraud | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Leïna Chaïbi | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Benjamin Ziziemsky | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexa Cortinovis | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Baptiste Daujat | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Arthur Bas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Buisson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Zarouhine Calmus | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Géraldine Cendre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylviane Chêne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Coquelet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Benoît de Boysson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martine Desbenoit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mathieu Dodard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent-Noël Dominjon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Françoise Dupont-Prudent | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Raphaël Duret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Dutrop | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sonia El Hadj-Vulin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Claude Eyraud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marion Flamin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Frénéat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yvonne Gahwa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jessie Mallet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Marquis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Béatrice Morin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Mélec | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Andy Nkundikije | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mandy Perret--Medevielle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Romain Peulet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Guillaume Robert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Roux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sara Tarouat-Boutry | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Friedrich Von Kirchbach | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Suaip Zinkal | 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.
The council: same source as Who represents Bourg-en-Bresse, above.
How Bourg-en-Bresse voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
11,860 votes cast for a list
12,027 of 23,177 registered voters in Bourg-en-Bresse voted.
91 blank and 76 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.
Bourg-en-Bresse spends €1,796 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
Bourg-en-Bresse owed €44.5M at the end of 2025, €1,018 per resident, higher than in 69% of compared French communes, equal to 73% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,796 | €399 | €1,018 | €44.5M |
| 2024 | €1,930 | €506 | €1,037 | €44.8M |
| 2023 | €1,818 | €412 | €1,023 | €44.4M |
| 2022 | €1,812 | €492 | €1,172 | €50.2M |
| 2021 | €1,710 | €463 | €1,151 | €49.5M |
| 2020 | €1,579 | €335 | €1,265 | €54.8M |
| 2019 | €1,672 | €417 | €1,313 | €57.1M |
| 2018 | €1,974 | €524 | €1,350 | €57.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Marcq-en-Barœul, €0. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Bourg-en-Bresse
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 Bourg-en-Bresse 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 Bourg-en-Bresse’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse?
Jean-François Debat, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bourg-en-Bresse have?
The Bourg-en-Bresse municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bourg-en-Bresse?
Bourg nous rassemble, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.6% of the votes; it holds 35 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Bourg-en-Bresse?
51.9% 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 Bourg-en-Bresse?
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 Bourg-en-Bresse have?
€44.5M at the end of 2025, €1,018 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bourg-en-Bresse part of?
Bourg-en-Bresse is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse, 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.