Narbonne carries more debt per resident than 80% of compared communes
Bertrand Malquier has been mayor of Narbonne since March 27, 2026, elected by the 45 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Nouveau Narbonne 2026 won 36 of the 45 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 59.2% of the votes. Narbonne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Narbonne.
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 Narbonne’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, Nouveau Narbonne 2026 came first with 59.2% and took 36 of the 45 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Narbonne owed €72.6M at the end of 2025, €1,257 per resident: higher than in 80% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 93% 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.
- Nouveau Narbonne 20263625 community seats
- UNE ÉNERGIE POUR NARBONNE !53 community seats
- NARBONNE en GRAND43 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 Narbonne 31 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Narbonne (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: Bertrand Malquier · 45 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, 2026Bertrand Malquier
- 2Deputy mayors13 adjoints, elected by the councilSylvie AlauxJean-Paul CesarSophie Pelofy PonsYves PenetAnhès Sauzel-MaryJean-Michel AlvarezSylvie DuezClaude Lebessou+5 more
- 3Narbonne municipal council45 seats by listNouveau Narbonne 2026 36 · UNE ÉNERGIE POUR NARBONNE ! 5 · NARBONNE en GRAND 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand NarbonneNarbonne holds 31 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 45 members of the Narbonne municipal council
The mayor and 13 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bertrand Malquier | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Alaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Cesar | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Pelofy Pons | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Penet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anhès Sauzel-Mary | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Alvarez | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Duez | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Lebessou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Evelyne Rapinat | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sadek Boudiaf | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Courriere Calmon | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvain Vienne | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Cousin | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (45)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bertrand Malquier | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Alaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Cesar | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Pelofy Pons | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Penet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anhès Sauzel-Mary | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Alvarez | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Duez | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Lebessou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Evelyne Rapinat | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sadek Boudiaf | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Courriere Calmon | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvain Vienne | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Cousin | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Aguera | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Bardy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Belart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emma Bellotti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Beylerian | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Bonnafous Auge | Conseiller municipal | March 27, 2026 |
| Cyrielle Bouisset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Brehon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Calmon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Chesnel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise de Cornelissen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Duin Moya | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kaltoum El Hamdani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Falcon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Fenateu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincenzo Giardina | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Guenfici | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Luque | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Coralie Malric | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Manfredi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillaume Masson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alban Navarro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Panizzutti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Texxy Rame | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Regis Brousson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florian Robin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Sainte-Cluque | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rodolphe Sinfreu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Viviane Thivent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Vico | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Vitasse | 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 Narbonne, above.
How Narbonne voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
20,604 votes cast for a list
21,270 of 40,334 registered voters in Narbonne voted.
302 blank and 364 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
21,479 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
22,091 of 40,325 registered voters in Narbonne voted.
316 blank and 296 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.
Narbonne spends €1,771 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
Narbonne owed €72.6M at the end of 2025, €1,257 per resident, higher than in 80% of compared French communes, equal to 93% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,771 | €418 | €1,257 | €72.6M |
| 2024 | €1,727 | €398 | €1,174 | €67.6M |
| 2023 | €1,662 | €418 | €1,058 | €60.7M |
| 2022 | €1,528 | €339 | €1,109 | €62.9M |
| 2021 | €1,358 | €190 | €1,149 | €65M |
| 2020 | €1,431 | €274 | €1,175 | €65.7M |
| 2019 | €1,907 | €695 | €1,149 | €63.2M |
| 2018 | €1,589 | €384 | €993 | €54.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Sartrouville, €154. Highest: Massy, €2,750.
Have a say in Narbonne
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 Narbonne 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 Narbonne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Narbonne?
Bertrand Malquier, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Narbonne have?
The Narbonne municipal council has 45 members, the mayor and 13 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Narbonne?
Nouveau Narbonne 2026, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 59.2% of the votes; it holds 36 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Narbonne?
54.8% 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 Narbonne?
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 Narbonne have?
€72.6M at the end of 2025, €1,257 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Narbonne part of?
Narbonne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Le Grand Narbonne, 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.