Pamiers carries more debt per resident than 89% of compared communes
Jean-Philippe Sannac has been mayor of Pamiers since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, JEAN-PHILIPPE SANNAC,UNION ET ACTION POUR PAMIERS won 28 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 66.4% of the votes. Pamiers is part of the Communauté de communes des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées.
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 Pamiers’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, JEAN-PHILIPPE SANNAC,UNION ET ACTION POUR PAMIERS came first with 66.4% and took 28 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Pamiers owed €26.1M at the end of 2025, €1,533 per resident: higher than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 108% 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.
- JEAN-PHILIPPE SANNAC,UNION ET ACTION POUR PAMIERS2820 community seats
- PAMIERS CITOYENNE32 community seats
- EN AVANT PAMIERS22 community seats
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 Pamiers 24 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées (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-Philippe Sannac · 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 27, 2026Jean-Philippe Sannac
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilChristelle CoupadePhilippe MaurisseVeronique PonsChristophe GarciaClarisse Chabal VignolesCedric MarchatMichele AndreGilles Bicheyre+1 more
- 3Pamiers municipal council33 seats by listJEAN-PHILIPPE SANNAC,UNION ET ACTION POUR PAMIERS 28 · PAMIERS CITOYENNE 3 · EN AVANT PAMIERS 2
- 4Communauté de communes des Portes d'Ariège PyrénéesPamiers holds 24 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 Pamiers municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Philippe Sannac | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christelle Coupade | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Maurisse | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Veronique Pons | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Garcia | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Clarisse Chabal Vignoles | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cedric Marchat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michele Andre | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Bicheyre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Lebeau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Philippe Sannac | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christelle Coupade | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Maurisse | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Veronique Pons | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Garcia | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Clarisse Chabal Vignoles | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cedric Marchat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michele Andre | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Bicheyre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Lebeau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gerard Bauza | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrice Benedet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aude Beragaz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Renée Paule Beraguaz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jerome Bras | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Caumartin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Gavart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michèle Goulier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Guichou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Kermann | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Lagreu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Legrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Pedoussat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pauline Quintanilha | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Rault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Rumeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emile Sanchez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ginette Simonetta | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Souquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mickaël Trovalet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Uninski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Vigneau | 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 Pamiers, above.
How Pamiers voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,056 votes cast for a list
5,296 of 9,382 registered voters in Pamiers voted.
122 blank and 118 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,395 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,538 of 9,382 registered voters in Pamiers voted.
66 blank and 77 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.
Pamiers spends €1,851 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
Pamiers owed €26.1M at the end of 2025, €1,533 per resident, higher than in 89% of compared French communes, equal to 108% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,851 | €436 | €1,533 | €26.1M |
| 2024 | €1,905 | €494 | €1,621 | €27.4M |
| 2023 | €2,085 | €661 | €1,702 | €28M |
| 2022 | €2,048 | €593 | €1,611 | €26M |
| 2021 | €1,859 | €505 | €1,640 | €26.4M |
| 2020 | €1,762 | €471 | €1,509 | €24.4M |
| 2019 | €1,788 | €483 | €1,293 | €21.4M |
| 2018 | €1,709 | €417 | €1,249 | €20.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 3rd 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: Marly-le-Roi, €269. Highest: Mennecy, €1,732.
Have a say in Pamiers
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 Pamiers 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 Pamiers’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Pamiers?
Jean-Philippe Sannac, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Pamiers have?
The Pamiers municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Pamiers?
JEAN-PHILIPPE SANNAC,UNION ET ACTION POUR PAMIERS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 66.4% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Pamiers?
59% 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 Pamiers?
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 Pamiers have?
€26.1M at the end of 2025, €1,533 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Pamiers part of?
Pamiers is part of the Communauté de communes des Portes d'Ariège 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.