Chauny carries less debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
David Telatynski has been mayor of Chauny since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Un nouvel élan pour CHAUNY won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes. Chauny is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Chauny-Tergnier-La Fère.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Aisne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Chauny’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Un nouvel élan pour CHAUNY came first with 50.1% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.1% of registered voters in Chauny voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 74% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Aisne was 51.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Chauny owed €2.9M at the end of 2025, €241 per resident: lower than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 20% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Chauny invested €228 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 16% of its spending: lower than in 81% 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.
- Un nouvel élan pour CHAUNY2511 community seats
- Voyons l'avenir ensemble73 community seats
- ALBAN 100% CHAUNY10 community seats
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 Chauny 14 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Chauny-Tergnier-La Fère (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: David Telatynski · 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 27, 2026David Telatynski
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilRégis LapersonneCatherine LetrillardFrancis MalhommeCatherine Arnould-DujardinYves GambaCarole BarthelemyKarim ChafiCatherine Gaudefroy
- 3Chauny municipal council33 seats by listUn nouvel élan pour CHAUNY 25 · Voyons l'avenir ensemble 7 · ALBAN 100% CHAUNY 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Chauny-Tergnier-La FèreChauny holds 14 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 Chauny municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| David Telatynski | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Lapersonne | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Letrillard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francis Malhomme | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Arnould-Dujardin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Gamba | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Carole Barthelemy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Karim Chafi | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Gaudefroy | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| David Telatynski | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Lapersonne | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Letrillard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francis Malhomme | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Arnould-Dujardin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Gamba | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Carole Barthelemy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Karim Chafi | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Gaudefroy | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| José Beaurain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Belloy | Conseiller municipal | April 13, 2026 |
| Matthieu Bibaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydia Bompis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Bracq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Buriez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Carré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emilie Chassain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alban Delforge | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Desmons | Conseiller municipal | April 2, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Dodre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nora Ferguen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Fisener | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Gantois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Guerin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nacéra Issaad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Solène Koffmann | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanina Lavalard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benjamin Lecareux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Mariage | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valentin Pegart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Renaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Walter | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jerome Wetischek | 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 Chauny, above.
How Chauny voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,211 votes cast for a list
4,299 of 8,005 registered voters in Chauny voted.
37 blank and 51 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,010 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,088 of 8,003 registered voters in Chauny voted.
51 blank and 27 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.
Chauny spends €1,431 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
Chauny owed €2.9M at the end of 2025, €241 per resident, lower than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 20% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,431 | €228 | €241 | €2.9M |
| 2024 | €1,610 | €453 | €262 | €3.1M |
| 2023 | €1,345 | €173 | €224 | €2.7M |
| 2022 | €1,366 | €247 | €240 | €2.9M |
| 2021 | €1,197 | €202 | €166 | €2M |
| 2020 | €1,073 | €189 | €224 | €2.8M |
| 2019 | €1,574 | €543 | €283 | €3.5M |
| 2018 | €1,276 | €231 | €348 | €4.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 6th 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: Hœnheim, €1. Highest: Briançon, €3,762.
Have a say in Chauny
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 Chauny 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 Chauny’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Chauny?
David Telatynski, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Chauny have?
The Chauny municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Chauny?
Un nouvel élan pour CHAUNY, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Chauny?
51.1% 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 Chauny?
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 Chauny have?
€2.9M at the end of 2025, €241 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Chauny part of?
Chauny is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Chauny-Tergnier-La Fère, 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.