In Gerstheim, turnout beat 82% of compared French communes
Steve Jecko has been mayor of Gerstheim since March 20, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, En mouvement pour Gerstheim won 18 of the 23 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 53.2% of the votes. Gerstheim 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 Gerstheim’s town hall
Won in the first round
En mouvement pour Gerstheim won 53.2% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 18 of the 23 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
64.3% of registered voters in Gerstheim voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 82% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Bas-Rhin was 51.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- En mouvement pour Gerstheim182 community seats
- GERSTHEIM A COEUR 202651 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 Gerstheim 3 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: Steve Jecko · 23 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, 2026Steve Jecko
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilValérie SchochHubert SpraulJoëlle Estner-StrohmengerGérard HauserVéronique Freund
- 3Gerstheim municipal council23 seats by listEn mouvement pour Gerstheim 18 · GERSTHEIM A COEUR 2026 5
- 4Communauté de communes du Canton d'ErsteinGerstheim holds 3 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 23 members of the Gerstheim municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Jecko | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Valérie Schoch | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Hubert Spraul | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Joëlle Estner-Strohmenger | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Hauser | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Véronique Freund | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Jecko | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Valérie Schoch | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Hubert Spraul | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Joëlle Estner-Strohmenger | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Hauser | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Véronique Freund | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jérémie Backert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Damien Doppel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Dossmann | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claire Fischer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Flesch | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Frindel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Xavier Keller | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Koegler | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Kohler | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Angélique Kolb | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elise Kuntz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabrice Kuntz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Pontasse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amelle Schricke | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laure Stuckrath | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Wendling | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joëlle Wohlschlegel | 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 Gerstheim, above.
How Gerstheim voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
1,808 votes cast for a list
1,837 of 2,859 registered voters in Gerstheim voted.
17 blank and 12 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.
Have a say in Gerstheim
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 Gerstheim 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 Gerstheim’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Gerstheim?
Steve Jecko, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Gerstheim have?
The Gerstheim municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Gerstheim?
En mouvement pour Gerstheim, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 53.2% of the votes; it holds 18 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Gerstheim?
64.3% 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 Gerstheim?
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.
Which intercommunality is Gerstheim part of?
Gerstheim 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.