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Biert town hall

In Biert, turnout beat 99% of compared French communes

Gilbert Lazaroo has been mayor of Biert since March 23, 2026, elected by the 11 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS won 10 of the 11 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.5% of the votes. Biert is part of the Communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées.

Next municipal elections

March 2032

Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.

Register to vote ↗

Throughout this page, the median in Ariège and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Biert has 303 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.

Mayor
Gilbert Lazaroo
since March 23, 2026
Council members
11
including 3 deputy mayors
Turnout, March 2026
78%
first round · France median 57%
Debt per resident
€303
end of 2025 · France median €748
In brief

What stands out about Biert’s town hall

Won in the first round

ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS won 70.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 10 of the 11 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 1. Who’s in charge ↓

Turnout above most communes

77.7% of registered voters in Biert voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Ariège was 59%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓

Less debt per resident than most

Biert owed €94K at the end of 2025, €303 per resident: lower than in 86% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 26% 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.

Who’s in charge

The council the voters chose

Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.

Municipal council · 11 seatsBiert municipal councilENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS: 10 of 11
  • ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS10
  • BIERT AUJOUD'HUI ET DEMAIN1

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.

Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.

Who runs Biert

4 authorities share the work

The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.

Commune · the town hallMairie de Biert

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: Gilbert Lazaroo · 11 councilors

Intercommunality · communauté de communesCommunauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées

The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.

DépartementConseil départemental · Ariège

Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.

RégionConseil régional · Occitanie

Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.

Who to ask

Birth, marriage and death certificatesMairie de Biert
Registering to voteMairie de Biert
Nursery and primary schoolsMairie de Biert
Building permits (filed at the town hall)Mairie de Biert
Household waste (usually)Communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées
Collèges (ages 11 to 15)Conseil départemental · Ariège
RSA, care for older people, child protectionConseil départemental · Ariège
Lycées (ages 15 to 18)Conseil régional · Occitanie
Regional trains (TER)Conseil régional · Occitanie
ID cards and passportsAny town hall that takes applications, by appointment

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.

Who represents Biert

From the mayor to the intercommunality

The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.

  1. 1
    Mayorsince March 23, 2026
    Gilbert Lazaroo
  2. 2
    Deputy mayors3 adjoints, elected by the council
    Florence MichelHelios MinguezSuzanne Sabatié
  3. 3
    Biert municipal council11 seats by list
    ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS 10 · BIERT AUJOUD'HUI ET DEMAIN 1

Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.

The council

The 11 members of the Biert municipal council

The mayor and 3 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.

NameOfficeSince
Gilbert LazarooMaireMarch 23, 2026
Florence Michel1er adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Helios Minguez2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Suzanne Sabatié3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Show the full council (11)
NameOfficeSince
Gilbert LazarooMaireMarch 23, 2026
Florence Michel1er adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Helios Minguez2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Suzanne Sabatié3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 23, 2026
Ghislaine ChavanneConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Hélène DecarpigniesConseiller municipalMarch 16, 2026
Jean-Philippe Loubet Dit GajolConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Christian MalyConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Pierre NoelConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Flora QuinquisConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Agnès SeelConseiller municipalMarch 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 Biert, above.

2026 elections

How Biert voted in March 2026

2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.

Municipal council of Biertfirst round · March 15, 2026
ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS10 seats70.5%
BIERT AUJOUD'HUI ET DEMAIN1 seat29.5%

241 votes cast for a list

Turnout · first round
78%

255 of 328 registered voters in Biert voted.

13 blank and 1 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.

Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026

BiertMedian in AriègeFrance median
Voted77.7%
0%50%100%

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.

The commune’s money

Biert spends €1,677 per resident a year

The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.

Spending
€1,677
per resident, 2025
€521K in all
Running costs
€1,158
per resident, 2025
€360K in all
Investment
€519
per resident, 2025
€161K in all
Debt
€303
per resident, end of 2025
€94K in all

Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes

BiertMedian in AriègeFrance median
Spending€1,677
Running costs€1,158
Investment€519
Debt€303
€0€1,000€2,000

Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025

€0€750€1,500€2,250€3,00020182019202020212022202320242025Spending 2018 : €1,016Spending 2019 : €1,249Spending 2020 : €905Spending 2021 : €1,743Spending 2022 : €2,078Spending 2023 : €1,709Spending 2024 : €1,510Spending 2025 : €1,677Debt 2018 : €1,611Debt 2019 : €1,537Debt 2020 : €1,448Debt 2021 : €1,344Debt 2022 : €1,259Debt 2023 : €1,172Debt 2024 : €1,085Debt 2025 : €303DebtSpending

Biert owed €94K at the end of 2025, €303 per resident, lower than in 86% of compared French communes, equal to 26% of a year’s running costs.

Show year by year
YearSpendingInvestmentDebtDebt in all
2025€1,677€519€303€94K
2024€1,510€196€1,085€344K
2023€1,709€525€1,172€375K
2022€2,078€1,069€1,259€405K
2021€1,743€318€1,344€435K
2020€905€33€1,448€465K
2019€1,249€419€1,537€493K
2018€1,016€204€1,611€520K

Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.

Towns its size

The 10th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size

The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.

Biert €303
WattenMers-les-Bains
€0€1,700€3,400

Lowest: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.

Get involved

Have a say in Biert

Register to vote

French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.

service-public.fr ↗
Check your registration

See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.

service-public.fr ↗
Go to a council meeting

Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.

service-public.fr ↗
Contact the town hall

Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Biert in the public services directory.

lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗
Stand for the council

Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.

interieur.gouv.fr ↗
How to read these numbers

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 Biert’s town hall

Who is the mayor of Biert?

Gilbert Lazaroo, mayor since March 23, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).

How many councilors does Biert have?

The Biert municipal council has 11 members, the mayor and 3 deputy mayors included.

Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Biert?

ENSEMBLE POUR TOUS LES BIERTOIS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.5% of the votes; it holds 10 of the 11 seats.

What was the turnout in Biert?

77.7% 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 Biert?

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 Biert have?

€94K at the end of 2025, €303 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.

Which intercommunality is Biert part of?

Biert is part of the Communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées, 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.