Grasse carries more debt per resident than 89% of compared communes
Jérôme Viaud has been mayor of Grasse since March 21, 2026, elected by the 45 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Avec Jérôme VIAUD, Grasse Gagnante won 37 of the 45 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.1% of the votes. Grasse is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse.
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 Grasse’s town hall
Won in the first round
Avec Jérôme VIAUD, Grasse Gagnante won 57.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 5 lists stood. It took 37 of the 45 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.1% of registered voters in Grasse voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 77% 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
Grasse owed €77M at the end of 2025, €1,554 per resident: higher than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 125% 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.
- Avec Jérôme VIAUD, Grasse Gagnante3723 community seats
- Retrouvons Grasse42 community seats
- GRASSE A TOUS32 community seats
- Union Solidaire et Populaire pour Grasse - USPG11 community seat
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 Grasse 28 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse (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: Jérôme Viaud · 45 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 21, 2026Jérôme Viaud
- 2Deputy mayors17 adjoints, elected by the councilFrançois RoustanValérie CopinChristophe MorelAline BourdaireFrançois LaurentCatherine ButtyGilles RondoniElodie Barbier+9 more
- 3Grasse municipal council45 seats by listAvec Jérôme VIAUD, Grasse Gagnante 37 · Retrouvons Grasse 4 · GRASSE A TOUS 3 · Union Solidaire et Populaire pour Grasse - USPG 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de GrasseGrasse holds 28 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 45 members of the Grasse municipal council
The mayor and 17 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jérôme Viaud | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Roustan | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Copin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Morel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aline Bourdaire | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Laurent | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Catherine Butty | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gilles Rondoni | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Elodie Barbier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nicolas Doyen | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie-Madeleine Guallino | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Bicail | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Muriele Chabert | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Cédric Campagno | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Giaccone | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jérôme Cochet | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aude Declercq | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Simon Daragon | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (45)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jérôme Viaud | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Roustan | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Copin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Morel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aline Bourdaire | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Laurent | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Catherine Butty | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gilles Rondoni | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Elodie Barbier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nicolas Doyen | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie-Madeleine Guallino | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Bicail | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Muriele Chabert | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Cédric Campagno | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Giaccone | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jérôme Cochet | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aude Declercq | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Simon Daragon | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ali Amrane | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Barbey | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Bonelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jocelyne Bustamente | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cendrina Cadot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lévanna Calatayud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Camerano | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Canadas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Cardot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Cassarini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Chabaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Coste | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Paul Euziere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frederic Ferrare | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Garnier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yamina Ghalouni | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Karine Gigodot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jeannette Gisquet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Richard Kiss | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-François Laporte | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Myriam Lazreug | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Roger Missenti | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annie Oggero Maire | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc Rebuffo | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| James Rolland | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Leïla Tonnerre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélanie Zarrillo | 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 Grasse, above.
How Grasse voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
17,387 votes cast for a list
17,678 of 35,310 registered voters in Grasse voted.
170 blank and 121 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.
Grasse spends €1,533 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
Grasse owed €77M at the end of 2025, €1,554 per resident, higher than in 89% of compared French communes, equal to 125% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,533 | €292 | €1,554 | €77M |
| 2024 | €1,542 | €286 | €1,561 | €76.7M |
| 2023 | €1,536 | €314 | €1,571 | €78M |
| 2022 | €1,516 | €326 | €1,663 | €82.8M |
| 2021 | €1,442 | €261 | €1,760 | €87.6M |
| 2020 | €1,475 | €271 | €1,756 | €90.1M |
| 2019 | €1,517 | €278 | €1,810 | €93.6M |
| 2018 | €1,417 | €214 | €1,831 | €95.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 14th 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: Meudon, €48. Highest: Massy, €2,750.
Have a say in Grasse
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 Grasse 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 Grasse’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Grasse?
Jérôme Viaud, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Grasse have?
The Grasse municipal council has 45 members, the mayor and 17 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Grasse?
Avec Jérôme VIAUD, Grasse Gagnante, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.1% of the votes; it holds 37 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Grasse?
50.1% 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 Grasse?
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 Grasse have?
€77M at the end of 2025, €1,554 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Grasse part of?
Grasse is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse, 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.