How is Villars-les-Dombes run?
Isabelle Dubois has been mayor of Villars-les-Dombes since March 31, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE POUR VILLARS won 23 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.9% of the votes. Villars-les-Dombes is part of the Communauté de communes de la Dombes.
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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- ENSEMBLE POUR VILLARS236 community seats
- CROIRE EN VILLARS61 community seat
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 Villars-les-Dombes 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de la Dombes (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: Isabelle Dubois · 29 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 31, 2026Isabelle Dubois
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilJulien LeducVéronique PeyrolCéline DulongLoïc MeurguesIsabelle Vaures
- 3Villars-les-Dombes municipal council29 seats by listENSEMBLE POUR VILLARS 23 · CROIRE EN VILLARS 6
- 4Communauté de communes de la DombesVillars-les-Dombes holds 7 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 29 members of the Villars-les-Dombes municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Isabelle Dubois | Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Julien Leduc | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Véronique Peyrol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Céline Dulong | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Loïc Meurgues | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Isabelle Vaures | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Isabelle Dubois | Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Julien Leduc | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Véronique Peyrol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Céline Dulong | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Loïc Meurgues | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Isabelle Vaures | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 31, 2026 |
| Simon Baudin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Berthet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jan Bultze-Gobert | Conseiller municipal | March 31, 2026 |
| Géraldine Cabon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Françoise Canard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Chatain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Katy Dos Prazeres | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Agnès Duperrier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Garreau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bertrand Glaizal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvain Guedon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabien Janet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rebecca Magny | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dorine Millot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrice Noblet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Derya Ozant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gaëtan Pochon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thi Ngoc Phuong Rucel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Salomon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nahide Sancar | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jordan Scandola | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christelle Seminara | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Villemont | 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 Villars-les-Dombes, above.
How Villars-les-Dombes voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
1,923 votes cast for a list
1,981 of 3,623 registered voters in Villars-les-Dombes voted.
36 blank and 22 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.
Villars-les-Dombes spends €1,196 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
Villars-les-Dombes owed €4M at the end of 2025, €783 per resident, higher than in 53% of compared French communes, equal to 108% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,196 | €473 | €783 | €4M |
| 2024 | €958 | €211 | €666 | €3.4M |
| 2023 | €1,096 | €365 | €735 | €3.7M |
| 2022 | €978 | €330 | €799 | €4.1M |
| 2021 | €854 | €257 | €877 | €4.4M |
| 2020 | €852 | €249 | €987 | €4.8M |
| 2019 | €1,510 | €860 | €1,219 | €5.7M |
| 2018 | €1,338 | €669 | €1,096 | €5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 21st 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: Chavanoz, €118. Highest: Saint-Vit, €2,623.
Have a say in Villars-les-Dombes
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 Villars-les-Dombes 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 Villars-les-Dombes’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Villars-les-Dombes?
Isabelle Dubois, mayor since March 31, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Villars-les-Dombes have?
The Villars-les-Dombes municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Villars-les-Dombes?
ENSEMBLE POUR VILLARS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.9% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Villars-les-Dombes?
54.7% 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 Villars-les-Dombes?
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 Villars-les-Dombes have?
€4M at the end of 2025, €783 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Villars-les-Dombes part of?
Villars-les-Dombes is part of the Communauté de communes de la Dombes, 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.