Commentry invested more per resident in 2025 than 85% of compared communes
Sylvain Bourdier has been mayor of Commentry since March 22, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, COMMENTRY POUR TOUS won 23 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.6% of the votes. Commentry is part of the Communauté de communes Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Allier and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Commentry’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, COMMENTRY POUR TOUS came first with 53.6% and took 23 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Commentry owed €6.7M at the end of 2025, €1,078 per resident: higher than in 73% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 56% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Commentry invested €742 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 28% of its spending: higher than in 85% 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.
- COMMENTRY POUR TOUS239 community seats
- COMMENTRY !62 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 Commentry 11 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté (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: Sylvain Bourdier · 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 22, 2026Sylvain Bourdier
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilThierry VergeMurielle DesforgesPascal ReliantStéphanie BodeauStéphane JardonnetEmmanuelle MichonDaniel Martin
- 3Commentry municipal council29 seats by listCOMMENTRY POUR TOUS 23 · COMMENTRY ! 6
- 4Communauté de communes Commentry Montmarault Néris CommunautéCommentry holds 11 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 Commentry municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Bourdier | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Verge | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Murielle Desforges | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Reliant | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bodeau | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Jardonnet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Michon | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Bourdier | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Verge | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Murielle Desforges | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Reliant | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bodeau | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Jardonnet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Michon | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Aerts | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Baduel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Léa Bardot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnes Belmonte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cécile Bondoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Annick Caboco | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Castillo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Charbonnel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alison Clément | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Da Silva | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Descamps | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Espinasse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Baptiste Ferrandon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fernand Leclercq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Leoty | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Lou Lesage | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Leyrem | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manuel Mas-Prevost | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Passat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claude Riboulet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Velut | 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 Commentry, above.
How Commentry voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,730 votes cast for a list
2,810 of 4,473 registered voters in Commentry voted.
39 blank and 41 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,632 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,710 of 4,476 registered voters in Commentry voted.
36 blank and 42 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.
Commentry spends €2,672 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
Commentry owed €6.7M at the end of 2025, €1,078 per resident, higher than in 73% of compared French communes, equal to 56% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,672 | €742 | €1,078 | €6.7M |
| 2024 | €2,542 | €569 | €954 | €6M |
| 2023 | €2,143 | €268 | €1,008 | €6.3M |
| 2022 | €4,251 | €2,412 | €1,626 | €10.3M |
| 2021 | €2,028 | €381 | €1,802 | €11.4M |
| 2020 | €2,123 | €334 | €1,784 | €11.5M |
| 2019 | €2,603 | €783 | €1,809 | €11.7M |
| 2018 | €2,670 | €832 | €1,691 | €11M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Jouars-Pontchartrain, €1. Highest: Vias, €2,534.
Have a say in Commentry
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 Commentry 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 Commentry’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Commentry?
Sylvain Bourdier, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Commentry have?
The Commentry municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Commentry?
COMMENTRY POUR TOUS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.6% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Commentry?
60.6% 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 Commentry?
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 Commentry have?
€6.7M at the end of 2025, €1,078 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Commentry part of?
Commentry is part of the Communauté de communes Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté, 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.