Biot carries more debt per resident than 81% of compared communes
Jean-Pierre Dermit has been mayor of Biot since March 20, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Tous pour Biot won 28 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 66.3% of the votes. Biot is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Alpes-Maritimes and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Biot’s town hall
Won in the first round
Tous pour Biot won 66.3% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 28 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
60.8% of registered voters in Biot voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 66% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Alpes-Maritimes was 59.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Biot owed €13.3M at the end of 2025, €1,266 per resident: higher than in 81% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 88% 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.
- Tous pour Biot285 community seats
- POUR BIOT, IL EST TEMPS !40 community seats
- BIOT A GAUCHE ET ECOLOGISTE10 community seats
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 Biot 5 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis (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: Jean-Pierre Dermit · 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 20, 2026Jean-Pierre Dermit
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilCatherine Dupre BaleyteFrançois PeigneCaroline JoussemetGuillaume Le CozMartine AufeuvreGérard PetitMélissa Farinelli-ScharlyEric Operto+1 more
- 3Biot municipal council33 seats by listTous pour Biot 28 · POUR BIOT, IL EST TEMPS ! 4 · BIOT A GAUCHE ET ECOLOGISTE 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia AntipolisBiot holds 5 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 Biot municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Pierre Dermit | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Catherine Dupre Baleyte | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| François Peigne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Caroline Joussemet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guillaume Le Coz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Aufeuvre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Petit | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Mélissa Farinelli-Scharly | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Eric Operto | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laura Pavan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Pierre Dermit | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Catherine Dupre Baleyte | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| François Peigne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Caroline Joussemet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guillaume Le Coz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Aufeuvre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Petit | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Mélissa Farinelli-Scharly | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Eric Operto | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laura Pavan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sonia Anger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Arlotto | Conseiller municipal | April 24, 2026 |
| Eric Aussibal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claire Baës | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Biancotti | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Borghi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Vérronique Bouron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques-Olivier Broner | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascale Caravel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Chaput | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabien Delmas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Franceschi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Denis La Spesa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Laty | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Leterrier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Chantal Loyseau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David Marien | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Séverine Moureaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Pelissier Tabusso | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joël Pradelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicole Pradelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Valérie Sciolla | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sabrina Yetor | 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 Biot, above.
How Biot voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,812 votes cast for a list
4,890 of 8,037 registered voters in Biot voted.
43 blank and 35 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.
Biot spends €1,814 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
Biot owed €13.3M at the end of 2025, €1,266 per resident, higher than in 81% of compared French communes, equal to 88% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,814 | €371 | €1,266 | €13.3M |
| 2024 | €1,899 | €372 | €1,396 | €14.2M |
| 2023 | €2,364 | €857 | €1,523 | €15.1M |
| 2022 | €1,639 | €256 | €1,598 | €16M |
| 2021 | €2,155 | €790 | €1,978 | €20M |
| 2020 | €2,092 | €690 | €1,770 | €17.9M |
| 2019 | €2,409 | €976 | €1,873 | €19M |
| 2018 | €3,079 | €1,673 | €1,295 | €13.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Villers-Cotterêts, €0. Highest: Argelès-sur-Mer, €3,715.
Have a say in Biot
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 Biot 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 Biot’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Biot?
Jean-Pierre Dermit, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Biot have?
The Biot municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Biot?
Tous pour Biot, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 66.3% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Biot?
60.8% 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 Biot?
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 Biot have?
€13.3M at the end of 2025, €1,266 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Biot part of?
Biot is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis, 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.