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La Vancelle town hall

La Vancelle invested less per resident in 2025 than 99% of compared communes

Thomas Bellicam has been mayor of La Vancelle since March 21, 2026, elected by the 9 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Créons du lien won 9 of the 11 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes. La Vancelle is part of the Communauté de communes de Sélestat.

Next municipal elections

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. La Vancelle has 402 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.

Mayor
Thomas Bellicam
since March 21, 2026
Council members
9
including 2 deputy mayors
Turnout, March 2026
75%
first round · France median 57%
Debt per resident
€262
end of 2025 · France median €748
In brief

What stands out about La Vancelle’s town hall

Won in the first round

Créons du lien won 50.7% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 9 of the 11 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 2. Who’s in charge ↓

Turnout above most communes

75.3% of registered voters in La Vancelle voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% 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

La Vancelle owed €109K at the end of 2025, €262 per resident: lower than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 39% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓

Little investment

La Vancelle invested €20 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 3% of its spending: lower than in 99% 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.

Who’s in charge

The council the voters chose

Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.

Municipal council · 11 seatsLa Vancelle municipal councilCréons du lien: 9 of 11
  • Créons du lien9
  • RACINES ET AMBITIONS POUR LA VANCELLE2

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.

Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.

Who runs La Vancelle

4 authorities share the work

The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.

Commune · the town hallMairie de La Vancelle

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: Thomas Bellicam · 9 councilors

Intercommunality · communauté de communesCommunauté de communes de Sélestat

The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.

DépartementConseil départemental · Bas-Rhin

Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.

RégionConseil régional · Grand Est

Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.

Who to ask

Birth, marriage and death certificatesMairie de La Vancelle
Registering to voteMairie de La Vancelle
Nursery and primary schoolsMairie de La Vancelle
Building permits (filed at the town hall)Mairie de La Vancelle
Household waste (usually)Communauté de communes de Sélestat
Collèges (ages 11 to 15)Conseil départemental · Bas-Rhin
RSA, care for older people, child protectionConseil départemental · Bas-Rhin
Lycées (ages 15 to 18)Conseil régional · Grand Est
Regional trains (TER)Conseil régional · Grand Est
ID cards and passportsAny town hall that takes applications, by appointment

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.

Who represents La Vancelle

From the mayor to the intercommunality

The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.

  1. 1
    Mayorsince March 21, 2026
    Thomas Bellicam
  2. 2
    Deputy mayors2 adjoints, elected by the council
    Yves DussourdDorothée Dutter
  3. 3
    La Vancelle municipal council11 seats by list
    Créons du lien 9 · RACINES ET AMBITIONS POUR LA VANCELLE 2

Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.

The council

The 9 members of the La Vancelle municipal council

The mayor and 2 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.

NameOfficeSince
Thomas BellicamMaireMarch 21, 2026
Yves Dussourd1er adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Dorothée Dutter2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Show the full council (9)
NameOfficeSince
Thomas BellicamMaireMarch 21, 2026
Yves Dussourd1er adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Dorothée Dutter2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Nicolas HelierConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Stéphanie JundConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Rachel KatamnaConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Frédéric KilcherConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Margaux TissierConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
René ToussaintConseiller municipalMarch 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 La Vancelle, above.

2026 elections

How La Vancelle voted in March 2026

2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.

Municipal council of La Vancellefirst round · March 15, 2026
Créons du lien9 seats50.7%
RACINES ET AMBITIONS POUR LA VANCELLE2 seats49.3%

288 votes cast for a list

Turnout · first round
75%

290 of 385 registered voters in La Vancelle voted.

2 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.

Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026

La VancelleMedian in Bas-RhinFrance median
Voted75.3%
0%50%100%

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.

The commune’s money

La Vancelle spends €693 per resident a year

The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.

Spending
€693
per resident, 2025
€288K in all
Running costs
€673
per resident, 2025
€279K in all
Investment
€20
per resident, 2025
€8K in all
Debt
€262
per resident, end of 2025
€109K in all

Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes

La VancelleMedian in Bas-RhinFrance median
Spending€693
Running costs€673
Investment€20
Debt€262
€0€1,000€2,000

Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025

€0€500€1,000€1,500€2,00020182019202020212022202320242025Spending 2018 : €594Spending 2019 : €599Spending 2020 : €662Spending 2021 : €516Spending 2022 : €1,363Spending 2023 : €813Spending 2024 : €873Spending 2025 : €693Debt 2018 : €192Debt 2019 : €143Debt 2020 : €108Debt 2021 : €92Debt 2022 : €611Debt 2023 : €578Debt 2024 : €296Debt 2025 : €262DebtSpending

La Vancelle owed €109K at the end of 2025, €262 per resident, lower than in 89% of compared French communes, equal to 39% of a year’s running costs.

Show year by year
YearSpendingInvestmentDebtDebt in all
2025€693€20€262€109K
2024€873€303€296€122K
2023€813€278€578€239K
2022€1,363€775€611€253K
2021€516€17€92€38K
2020€662€52€108€46K
2019€599€59€143€61K
2018€594€90€192€82K

Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.

Towns its size

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.

La Vancelle €262
WattenMers-les-Bains
€0€1,700€3,400

Lowest: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.

Get involved

Have a say in La Vancelle

Register to vote

French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.

service-public.fr ↗
Check your registration

See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.

service-public.fr ↗
Go to a council meeting

Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.

service-public.fr ↗
Contact the town hall

Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of La Vancelle in the public services directory.

lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗
Stand for the council

Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.

interieur.gouv.fr ↗
How to read these numbers

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 La Vancelle’s town hall

Who is the mayor of La Vancelle?

Thomas Bellicam, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).

How many councilors does La Vancelle have?

The La Vancelle municipal council has 9 members, the mayor and 2 deputy mayors included.

Who won the 2026 municipal elections in La Vancelle?

Créons du lien, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes; it holds 9 of the 11 seats.

What was the turnout in La Vancelle?

75.3% 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 La Vancelle?

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 La Vancelle have?

€109K at the end of 2025, €262 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.

Which intercommunality is La Vancelle part of?

La Vancelle is part of the Communauté de communes de Sélestat, 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.