In Laon, turnout was lower than in 88% of compared French communes
Eric Delhaye has been mayor of Laon since March 29, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Laon, notre passion commune won 28 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes. Laon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Laon.
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 Laon’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Laon, notre passion commune came first with 53.4% and took 28 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
45.8% of registered voters in Laon voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 88% 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
Laon owed €13.8M at the end of 2025, €559 per resident: lower than in 66% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 39% 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.
- Laon, notre passion commune2823 community seats
- Rassemblement Pour le Laon Demain43 community seats
- DEMAIN, FIERS DE LAON33 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 Laon 29 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Laon (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: Eric Delhaye · 35 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 29, 2026Eric Delhaye
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilSylvie Letot DurandeFrédéric JolyClaudia MathieuPierre CaurierSéverine DupontDominique PierreSophie Charles EtiennePhilippe Parcheminier+2 more
- 3Laon municipal council35 seats by listLaon, notre passion commune 28 · Rassemblement Pour le Laon Demain 4 · DEMAIN, FIERS DE LAON 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de LaonLaon holds 29 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 35 members of the Laon municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Delhaye | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sylvie Letot Durande | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Frédéric Joly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claudia Mathieu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pierre Caurier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Séverine Dupont | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Pierre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sophie Charles Etienne | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Parcheminier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Marie Sauvez | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vivien Bruneel | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Delhaye | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sylvie Letot Durande | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Frédéric Joly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claudia Mathieu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pierre Caurier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Séverine Dupont | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Pierre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sophie Charles Etienne | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Parcheminier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Marie Sauvez | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vivien Bruneel | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Aude Bono-Vandorme | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Bove | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurore Carlier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cathy Chatelain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Crampon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hubert Dauchez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Dragon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Géraldine Faucheux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fawaz Karimet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Lagneau-Zielinski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Driss Lahyani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernardine Lamant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Lavoine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Lebel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Lefèvre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carole Meullemiestre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Loîc Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Poidevin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Quéré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Ravaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Robin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yan Ruder | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Vallière | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cindy Wallet | 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 Laon, above.
How Laon voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,608 votes cast for a list
6,863 of 15,349 registered voters in Laon voted.
128 blank and 127 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
6,830 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
7,023 of 15,345 registered voters in Laon voted.
77 blank and 116 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.
Laon spends €1,902 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
Laon owed €13.8M at the end of 2025, €559 per resident, lower than in 66% of compared French communes, equal to 39% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,902 | €458 | €559 | €13.8M |
| 2024 | €1,867 | €503 | €532 | €13.1M |
| 2023 | €1,878 | €570 | €418 | €10.3M |
| 2022 | €1,824 | €501 | €351 | €8.8M |
| 2021 | €1,589 | €395 | €320 | €8.1M |
| 2020 | €1,568 | €339 | €362 | €9.3M |
| 2019 | €1,612 | €405 | €403 | €10.5M |
| 2018 | €1,462 | €337 | €476 | €12.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Rodez, €33. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Laon
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 Laon 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 Laon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Laon?
Eric Delhaye, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Laon have?
The Laon municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Laon?
Laon, notre passion commune, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Laon?
45.8% 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 Laon?
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 Laon have?
€13.8M at the end of 2025, €559 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Laon part of?
Laon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Laon, 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.