Photo: Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0Carcassonne carries more debt per resident than 83% of compared communes
Christophe Barthès has been mayor of Carcassonne since March 29, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Demain Carcassonne won 31 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 40.4% of the votes. Carcassonne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Carcassonne Agglo.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Aude and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Carcassonne’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Demain Carcassonne came first with 40.4% and took 31 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Carcassonne owed €62.7M at the end of 2025, €1,319 per resident: higher than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 84% 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.
- Demain Carcassonne3127 community seats
- PRENDRE SOIN DE VOUS FRANCOIS MOURAD ET MAGALI BARDOU66 community seats
- CARCASSONNE UNIE !65 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 Carcassonne 38 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Carcassonne Agglo (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: Christophe Barthès · 43 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 29, 2026Christophe Barthès
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilMarlène ArcizetFlorent GhisiAnnie DoutresAlexandre DumontNathalie FlamantPatrick MartinetCéline DutaArthur Roumenov+2 more
- 3Carcassonne municipal council43 seats by listDemain Carcassonne 31 · PRENDRE SOIN DE VOUS FRANCOIS MOURAD ET MAGALI BARDOU 6 · CARCASSONNE UNIE ! 6
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Carcassonne AggloCarcassonne holds 38 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 43 members of the Carcassonne municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Barthès | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marlène Arcizet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Florent Ghisi | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Annie Doutres | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Alexandre Dumont | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nathalie Flamant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patrick Martinet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Céline Duta | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Arthur Roumenov | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Barbara Orta | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Escriva | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Barthès | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marlène Arcizet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Florent Ghisi | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Annie Doutres | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Alexandre Dumont | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nathalie Flamant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patrick Martinet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Céline Duta | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Arthur Roumenov | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Barbara Orta | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Escriva | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Céline Alberido | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Magali Bardou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Barthe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Belondrade | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Christine Bernard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Brezet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Castel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryse Castres | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Chapus | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Ciappara | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Clergue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maria Conquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Noël Crouzet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudette Feron | Conseiller municipal | March 29, 2026 |
| Marion Forato | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Guilhem | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Iche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edouard Jordan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Kowalczyk | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Kozlowsky | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Lecina | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Marty | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Mourad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florencio Navarro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chantal Posocco | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Regnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tamara Rivel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Rogerat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Sarraute | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alix Soler-Alcaraz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Vavdin | 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 Carcassonne, above.
How Carcassonne voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
18,707 votes cast for a list
19,234 of 30,379 registered voters in Carcassonne voted.
253 blank and 274 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
17,578 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
18,027 of 30,381 registered voters in Carcassonne voted.
236 blank and 213 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.
Carcassonne spends €2,050 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
Carcassonne owed €62.7M at the end of 2025, €1,319 per resident, higher than in 83% of compared French communes, equal to 84% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,050 | €472 | €1,319 | €62.7M |
| 2024 | €1,888 | €356 | €1,263 | €59.8M |
| 2023 | €1,805 | €344 | €1,246 | €59.6M |
| 2022 | €1,654 | €260 | €1,326 | €63.8M |
| 2021 | €1,690 | €361 | €1,350 | €64.5M |
| 2020 | €1,716 | €466 | €1,368 | €64.8M |
| 2019 | €1,698 | €332 | €1,396 | €66.2M |
| 2018 | €1,596 | €272 | €1,439 | €68.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 21st 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: Puteaux, €17. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Carcassonne
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 Carcassonne 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 Carcassonne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Carcassonne?
Christophe Barthès, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Carcassonne have?
The Carcassonne municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Carcassonne?
Demain Carcassonne, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 40.4% of the votes; it holds 31 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Carcassonne?
59.3% 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 Carcassonne?
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 Carcassonne have?
€62.7M at the end of 2025, €1,319 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Carcassonne part of?
Carcassonne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Carcassonne Agglo, 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.