How is Sélestat run?
Denis Digel has been mayor of Sélestat since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AGIR ENSEMBLE POUR SELESTAT won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.5% of the votes. Sélestat is part of the Communauté de communes de Sélestat.
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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- AGIR ENSEMBLE POUR SELESTAT2617 community seats
- RÉINVENTER SÉLESTAT42 community seats
- LA RELÈVE SÉLESTADIENNE21 community seat
- Un nouveau départ11 community seat
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 Sélestat 21 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de Sélestat (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: Denis Digel · 33 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 22, 2026Denis Digel
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Pierre HaasNadège HornbeckRobert EngelFrédérique MeyerGilbert KleinSylvie Beringer-KuntzPhilippe DesaintquentinCathy Oberlin-Kugler+1 more
- 3Sélestat municipal council33 seats by listAGIR ENSEMBLE POUR SELESTAT 26 · RÉINVENTER SÉLESTAT 4 · LA RELÈVE SÉLESTADIENNE 2 · Un nouveau départ 1
- 4Communauté de communes de SélestatSélestat holds 21 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 33 members of the Sélestat municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Denis Digel | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Haas | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadège Hornbeck | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Robert Engel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Meyer | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Klein | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Beringer-Kuntz | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Desaintquentin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Cathy Oberlin-Kugler | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Renaud Deschamps | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Denis Digel | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Haas | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadège Hornbeck | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Robert Engel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Meyer | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Klein | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Beringer-Kuntz | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Desaintquentin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Cathy Oberlin-Kugler | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Renaud Deschamps | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ahellame Anselmetti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcel-Pierre Compte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Decker | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Esteve | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edouard Faller | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lorenzo Fernandez Lecce | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Fischer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Gesell | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Geyller | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Hoffmann-Eblin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carine Humm | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Molina | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Pagniez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hugo Rapp | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Reys | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederic Ries | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bénédicte Rozet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Schneider | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Treiber | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cathie Venchiarutti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bénédicte Vogel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Wieder | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Zamolo | 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 Sélestat, above.
How Sélestat voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
7,534 votes cast for a list
7,723 of 14,307 registered voters in Sélestat voted.
76 blank and 113 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
7,733 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
7,940 of 14,302 registered voters in Sélestat voted.
118 blank and 89 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.
Sélestat spends €1,884 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
Sélestat owed €16.2M at the end of 2025, €819 per resident, higher than in 56% of compared French communes, equal to 62% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,884 | €566 | €819 | €16.2M |
| 2024 | €2,250 | €875 | €731 | €14.3M |
| 2023 | €2,477 | €1,124 | €615 | €12M |
| 2022 | €1,749 | €513 | €484 | €9.4M |
| 2021 | €1,541 | €430 | €526 | €10.3M |
| 2020 | €1,370 | €283 | €571 | €11.2M |
| 2019 | €1,550 | €289 | €617 | €12M |
| 2018 | €1,468 | €386 | €652 | €12.8M |
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: Villefontaine, €21. Highest: Albertville, €2,283.
Have a say in Sélestat
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 Sélestat 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 Sélestat’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Sélestat?
Denis Digel, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Sélestat have?
The Sélestat municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Sélestat?
AGIR ENSEMBLE POUR SELESTAT, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.5% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Sélestat?
55.5% 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 Sélestat?
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 Sélestat have?
€16.2M at the end of 2025, €819 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Sélestat part of?
Sélestat 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.