Benfeld invested more per resident in 2025 than 88% of compared communes
Jacky Wolfarth has been mayor of Benfeld since March 20, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AGIR POUR BENFELD won 23 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes. Benfeld is part of the Communauté de communes du Canton d'Erstein.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Bas-Rhin and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Benfeld’s town hall
Won in the first round
AGIR POUR BENFELD won 53.4% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 23 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.8% of registered voters in Benfeld voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 78% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Bas-Rhin was 51.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Benfeld owed €2.6M at the end of 2025, €434 per resident: lower than in 77% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 79% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Benfeld invested €813 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 60% of its spending: higher than in 88% 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.
- AGIR POUR BENFELD235 community seats
- Benfeld avec Vous, pour Vous61 community seat
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. The same vote gave Benfeld 6 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Canton d'Erstein (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: Jacky Wolfarth · 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 20, 2026Jacky Wolfarth
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilClaude WeilFlorence SchwartzBruno LefebvreEllia FontaineJean Jacques KnopfMelanie Chittier
- 3Benfeld municipal council29 seats by listAGIR POUR BENFELD 23 · Benfeld avec Vous, pour Vous 6
- 4Communauté de communes du Canton d'ErsteinBenfeld holds 6 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 Benfeld municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jacky Wolfarth | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Claude Weil | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Florence Schwartz | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Bruno Lefebvre | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ellia Fontaine | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean Jacques Knopf | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Melanie Chittier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jacky Wolfarth | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Claude Weil | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Florence Schwartz | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Bruno Lefebvre | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ellia Fontaine | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean Jacques Knopf | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Melanie Chittier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nathalie Babel | Conseiller municipal | March 30, 2026 |
| Aude Banzet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frederic Barthe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Samuel Berger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Veronique Bruder | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elsa Estreicher | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gaetan Faes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Raphaël Goerger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Vanessa Guidetti | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernard Guidot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martin Gundelach | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Melanie Heitzmann | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Lachmann | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Lacroix | Conseiller municipal | March 31, 2026 |
| François Lardinais | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Willy Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandra Risch | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bircan Steinmetz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Strauss Zanelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Stucki | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aurélie Veraguth Remetter | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Wetzel | Conseiller municipal | March 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 Benfeld, above.
How Benfeld voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
2,004 votes cast for a list
2,064 of 4,148 registered voters in Benfeld voted.
31 blank and 29 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.
Benfeld spends €1,365 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
Benfeld owed €2.6M at the end of 2025, €434 per resident, lower than in 77% of compared French communes, equal to 79% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,365 | €813 | €434 | €2.6M |
| 2024 | €1,088 | €543 | €534 | €3.2M |
| 2023 | €790 | €236 | €646 | €3.8M |
| 2022 | €630 | €135 | €409 | €2.4M |
| 2021 | €870 | €398 | €500 | €2.9M |
| 2020 | €795 | €339 | €587 | €3.4M |
| 2019 | €730 | €266 | €674 | €3.9M |
| 2018 | €781 | €335 | €762 | €4.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
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.
Lowest: Jouars-Pontchartrain, €1. Highest: Vias, €2,534.
Have a say in Benfeld
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 Benfeld 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 Benfeld’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Benfeld?
Jacky Wolfarth, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Benfeld have?
The Benfeld municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Benfeld?
AGIR POUR BENFELD, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Benfeld?
49.8% 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 Benfeld?
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 Benfeld have?
€2.6M at the end of 2025, €434 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Benfeld part of?
Benfeld is part of the Communauté de communes du Canton d'Erstein, 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.