In Ferney-Voltaire, turnout was lower than in 89% of compared French communes
Pierre-Marie Philipps has been mayor of Ferney-Voltaire since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Une Energie Nouvelle Pour Ferney won 28 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 65.6% of the votes. Ferney-Voltaire is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Gex.
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 Ferney-Voltaire’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Une Energie Nouvelle Pour Ferney came first with 65.6% and took 28 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
45.2% of registered voters in Ferney-Voltaire voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 89% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Ain was 51.9%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- Une Energie Nouvelle Pour Ferney285 community seats
- FERNEY EN GRAND51 community seat
As elected in the second round, March 22, 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 Ferney-Voltaire 6 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Gex (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: Pierre-Marie Philipps · 33 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 22, 2026Pierre-Marie Philipps
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilManon CatryFrancois CampagneCatherine CanivetÉtienne T'Kint de RoodenbekeRofrane El MezdariYoussef BouslimAnne Francoise HassCharly Martin+1 more
- 3Ferney-Voltaire municipal council33 seats by listUne Energie Nouvelle Pour Ferney 28 · FERNEY EN GRAND 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de GexFerney-Voltaire holds 6 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 33 members of the Ferney-Voltaire municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Marie Philipps | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Manon Catry | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francois Campagne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Canivet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Étienne T'Kint de Roodenbeke | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Rofrane El Mezdari | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Youssef Bouslim | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Francoise Hass | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charly Martin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Katia Dayan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Marie Philipps | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Manon Catry | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francois Campagne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Canivet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Étienne T'Kint de Roodenbeke | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Rofrane El Mezdari | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Youssef Bouslim | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Francoise Hass | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charly Martin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Katia Dayan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florian Abattu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-José Anton | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amira Ben Ouaghrem | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hanane Bouhyadi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claire Bour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corentin Bousquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aude Buisson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Grégory Caix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Geneviève Desmaris | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aida Fall | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Fiorini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chantal Hars | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Loup Kastler | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Phlippe Lespinasse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Peter Loosli | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Maynadier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béchir Naouali | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Katherine Phelut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Luis Soria | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thao Tran Dinh | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Paula Valle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaël Vinçon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Piotr Walendzik | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 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 Ferney-Voltaire, above.
How Ferney-Voltaire voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,897 votes cast for a list
1,958 of 4,486 registered voters in Ferney-Voltaire voted.
34 blank and 27 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,987 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,026 of 4,485 registered voters in Ferney-Voltaire voted.
20 blank and 19 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.
Ferney-Voltaire spends €1,924 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
Ferney-Voltaire owed €7.1M at the end of 2025, €606 per resident, lower than in 63% of compared French communes, equal to 44% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,924 | €556 | €606 | €7.1M |
| 2024 | €1,754 | €353 | €469 | €5.2M |
| 2023 | €1,812 | €464 | €382 | €4.1M |
| 2022 | €1,918 | €624 | €477 | €4.9M |
| 2021 | €1,679 | €430 | €546 | €5.5M |
| 2020 | €2,080 | €816 | €620 | €6.2M |
| 2019 | €2,429 | €1,162 | €585 | €5.7M |
| 2018 | €1,586 | €353 | €717 | €7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: La Motte-Servolex, €34. Highest: Saint-Cyprien, €2,586.
Have a say in Ferney-Voltaire
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 Ferney-Voltaire 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 Ferney-Voltaire’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Ferney-Voltaire?
Pierre-Marie Philipps, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Ferney-Voltaire have?
The Ferney-Voltaire municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Ferney-Voltaire?
Une Energie Nouvelle Pour Ferney, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 65.6% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Ferney-Voltaire?
45.2% 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 Ferney-Voltaire?
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 Ferney-Voltaire have?
€7.1M at the end of 2025, €606 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Ferney-Voltaire part of?
Ferney-Voltaire is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Gex, 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.