In Foix, the council took a second round
Jérôme Matéos has been mayor of Foix since March 28, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, L'AUTRE CHOIX POUR FOIX won 21 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.8% of the votes. Foix is part of the Communauté d'agglomération L'agglo Foix-Varilhes.
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.
What stands out about Foix’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, L'AUTRE CHOIX POUR FOIX came first with 42.8% and took 21 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Foix owed €4.6M at the end of 2025, €461 per resident: lower than in 74% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 45% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Foix invested €238 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 19% of its spending: lower than in 79% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- L'AUTRE CHOIX POUR FOIX2112 community seats
- FOIX CAP 203263 community seats
- FOIX EN COMMUN.E21 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 Foix 16 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération L'agglo Foix-Varilhes (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 Matéos · 29 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, 2026Jérôme Matéos
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilBernard TavellaVéronique LavayssierePhilippe DedieuCarole GhirardiMatthieu LatrilleCaroline RoqueMathieu Gaston Bigata
- 3Foix municipal council29 seats by listL'AUTRE CHOIX POUR FOIX 21 · FOIX CAP 2032 6 · FOIX EN COMMUN.E 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération L'agglo Foix-VarilhesFoix holds 16 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 29 members of the Foix municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jérôme Matéos | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bernard Tavella | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Véronique Lavayssiere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Dedieu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Ghirardi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Latrille | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Caroline Roque | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mathieu Gaston Bigata | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jérôme Matéos | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bernard Tavella | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Véronique Lavayssiere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Dedieu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Ghirardi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Latrille | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Caroline Roque | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mathieu Gaston Bigata | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alexandre Besson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marine Bordes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryse Brandel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Canal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Cassagne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Clain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Ecoffard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Goyeau-Tignol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Guichou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Annick Le Blanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Leclerc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Lopes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Théo Marc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Danielle Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Portet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Guy Quidu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bastien Sans | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Seguelas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Sturbeaux-Frandon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Farid Touil | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rosita Vaello | 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 Foix, above.
How Foix voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,031 votes cast for a list
4,105 of 6,853 registered voters in Foix voted.
32 blank and 42 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
3,737 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,886 of 6,852 registered voters in Foix voted.
66 blank and 83 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.
Foix spends €1,255 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
Foix owed €4.6M at the end of 2025, €461 per resident, lower than in 74% of compared French communes, equal to 45% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,255 | €238 | €461 | €4.6M |
| 2024 | €1,270 | €264 | €511 | €5M |
| 2023 | €1,664 | €655 | €547 | €5.4M |
| 2022 | €1,513 | €516 | €377 | €3.7M |
| 2021 | €1,388 | €456 | €388 | €3.8M |
| 2020 | €1,292 | €376 | €198 | €2M |
| 2019 | €1,315 | €380 | €211 | €2.1M |
| 2018 | €1,292 | €449 | €218 | €2.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 11th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Lorgues, €1. Highest: Saint-Grégoire, €3,678.
Have a say in Foix
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 Foix 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 Foix’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Foix?
Jérôme Matéos, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Foix have?
The Foix municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Foix?
L'AUTRE CHOIX POUR FOIX, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.8% of the votes; it holds 21 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Foix?
56.7% 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 Foix?
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 Foix have?
€4.6M at the end of 2025, €461 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Foix part of?
Foix is part of the Communauté d'agglomération L'agglo Foix-Varilhes, 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.