Menton carries more debt per resident than 87% of compared communes
Alexandra Masson has been mayor of Menton since March 28, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Masson Pour Menton won 29 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.1% of the votes. Menton is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française.
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 Menton’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, Masson Pour Menton came first with 49.1% and took 29 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 10. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62% of registered voters in Menton voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 72% 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
Menton owed €45.3M at the end of 2025, €1,476 per resident: higher than in 87% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 77% 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.
- Masson Pour Menton2913 community seats
- L'UNION73 community seats
- MENTON EN ACTION31 community seat
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 Menton 17 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française (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: Alexandra Masson · 39 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 28, 2026Alexandra Masson
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Christophe StoraïCatherine AlstadtDavid MarchisioPascale VeranRichard MiquelisVirginie SimonciniNicolas LittardiSophie Eckenberg+3 more
- 3Menton municipal council39 seats by listMasson Pour Menton 29 · L'UNION 7 · MENTON EN ACTION 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera FrançaiseMenton holds 17 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 39 members of the Menton municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Masson | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Storaï | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Alstadt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| David Marchisio | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascale Veran | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Richard Miquelis | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Virginie Simoncini | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Littardi | 7ème adjoint au Maire | April 24, 2026 |
| Sophie Eckenberg | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claude Calvin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Elicrisio | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Daniel Mineo | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Masson | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Storaï | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Alstadt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| David Marchisio | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascale Veran | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Richard Miquelis | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Virginie Simoncini | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Littardi | 7ème adjoint au Maire | April 24, 2026 |
| Sophie Eckenberg | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claude Calvin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Elicrisio | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Daniel Mineo | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurence Albertini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rose-Marie Balderas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabrina Baudet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Cardinali | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florent Champion | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Delerue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Eche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Fayat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ida Ferrari | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joanna Genovese | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Loïc Grenard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Titien Legeay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Loncle Viale | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Felicia Marcq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benjamin Martelli | Conseiller municipal | April 30, 2026 |
| Cédric Monteiro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jasmine Nicaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Nicolo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Peret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Perez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ornella Petrosino | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Louis Sarkozy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gabriel Tomatis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Trabella | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Venem | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Vignau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kathleen Waeytens | 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 Menton, above.
How Menton voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
14,263 votes cast for a list
14,811 of 23,968 registered voters in Menton voted.
292 blank and 256 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
14,556 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
14,863 of 23,967 registered voters in Menton voted.
161 blank and 146 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.
Menton spends €2,381 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
Menton owed €45.3M at the end of 2025, €1,476 per resident, higher than in 87% of compared French communes, equal to 77% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,381 | €459 | €1,476 | €45.3M |
| 2024 | €2,568 | €640 | €1,443 | €44.5M |
| 2023 | €2,386 | €361 | €1,605 | €50M |
| 2022 | €2,209 | €401 | €1,649 | €51.1M |
| 2021 | €1,918 | €268 | €1,702 | €52.3M |
| 2020 | €2,279 | €556 | €1,586 | €46.7M |
| 2019 | €2,676 | €783 | €1,764 | €51M |
| 2018 | €2,630 | €777 | €1,925 | €55.3M |
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: Villemomble, €95. Highest: Agde, €3,166.
Have a say in Menton
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 Menton 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 Menton’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Menton?
Alexandra Masson, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Menton have?
The Menton municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Menton?
Masson Pour Menton, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.1% of the votes; it holds 29 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Menton?
62% 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 Menton?
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 Menton have?
€45.3M at the end of 2025, €1,476 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Menton part of?
Menton is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française, 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.