Montluçon carries more debt per resident than 82% of compared communes
Philippe Perche has been mayor of Montluçon since March 27, 2026, elected by the 38 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR MONTLUÇON won 29 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 47.9% of the votes. Montluçon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Montluçon 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 Montluçon’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 NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR MONTLUÇON came first with 47.9% and took 29 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 10. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.8% of registered voters in Montluçon voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 72% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Allier was 59.2%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Montluçon owed €44.3M at the end of 2025, €1,291 per resident: higher than in 82% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 86% 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.
- UN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR MONTLUÇON2922 community seats
- PORTONS MONTLUCON PLUS LOIN54 community seats
- MONTLUÇON EN COMMUN54 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 Montluçon 30 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Montluçon 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: Philippe Perche · 38 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, 2026Philippe Perche
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilSylvie de CastroJoseph RoudillonMarie-Laure BonniciMathieu BogrosSandrine GuyonnetFrançois BrochetStéphanie Porte BastienPhilippe Michelat+2 more
- 3Montluçon municipal council39 seats by listUN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR MONTLUÇON 29 · PORTONS MONTLUCON PLUS LOIN 5 · MONTLUÇON EN COMMUN 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Montluçon CommunautéMontluçon holds 30 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 38 members of the Montluçon municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Perche | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie de Castro | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joseph Roudillon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Bonnici | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathieu Bogros | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Guyonnet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| François Brochet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Porte Bastien | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Michelat | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christiane Halm | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Quentin Dreneuc | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (38)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Perche | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie de Castro | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joseph Roudillon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Bonnici | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathieu Bogros | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Guyonnet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| François Brochet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Porte Bastien | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Michelat | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christiane Halm | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Quentin Dreneuc | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Carmen Aguilar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Morgane Auclair | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yacine Benchrif | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Berthon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Katia Blin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Chanudet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Chappe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Chatain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Dauphin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrice Dias | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Dubourgnoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Régine Giraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Guers | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Salah Hadjab | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manuela Ibanez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Omar Kenaoui | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jennifer Lamer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Laporte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Leduc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Lefebvre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Solveig Legriffon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Martineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Mayette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Mothet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Zoé Perraudin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Rayon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Tailhardat | 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 Montluçon, above.
How Montluçon voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
11,067 votes cast for a list
11,493 of 20,688 registered voters in Montluçon voted.
196 blank and 230 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,260 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
10,718 of 20,693 registered voters in Montluçon voted.
230 blank and 228 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.
Montluçon spends €2,104 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
Montluçon owed €44.3M at the end of 2025, €1,291 per resident, higher than in 82% of compared French communes, equal to 86% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,104 | €594 | €1,291 | €44.3M |
| 2024 | €1,876 | €395 | €1,026 | €35.3M |
| 2023 | €1,778 | €330 | €1,046 | €36.5M |
| 2022 | €1,627 | €278 | €1,020 | €36.1M |
| 2021 | €1,457 | €208 | €1,131 | €40.7M |
| 2020 | €1,408 | €227 | €1,417 | €52.1M |
| 2019 | €1,452 | €233 | €1,407 | €52.7M |
| 2018 | €1,373 | €193 | €1,413 | €54.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th 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: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, €257. Highest: Carpentras, €2,742.
Have a say in Montluçon
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 Montluçon 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 Montluçon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Montluçon?
Philippe Perche, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Montluçon have?
The Montluçon municipal council has 38 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Montluçon?
UN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR MONTLUÇON, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 47.9% of the votes; it holds 29 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Montluçon?
51.8% 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 Montluçon?
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 Montluçon have?
€44.3M at the end of 2025, €1,291 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Montluçon part of?
Montluçon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Montluçon 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.