Photo: Gzen92 · CC BY-SA 4.0Arles carries more debt per resident than 91% of compared communes
Patrick de Carolis has been mayor of Arles since March 28, 2026, elected by the 44 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ARLES AU COEUR won 33 of the 45 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.4% of the votes. Arles is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Arles-Crau-Camargue-Montagnette.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Bouches-du-Rhône and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Arles’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, ARLES AU COEUR came first with 42.4% and took 33 of the 45 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Arles owed €85M at the end of 2025, €1,640 per resident: higher than in 91% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 88% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Arles invested €242 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 11% of its spending: lower than in 78% 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.
- ARLES AU COEUR3316 community seats
- L'UNION POUR ARLES85 community seats
- FIERS D'ÊTRE ARLÉSIENS31 community seat
- PLUS PROCHES D'ARLES10 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 Arles 22 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Arles-Crau-Camargue-Montagnette (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: Patrick de Carolis · 44 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 28, 2026Patrick de Carolis
- 2Deputy mayors13 adjoints, elected by the councilMandy GraillonCyril JuglaretClaire de Vincens de CausansPierre RaviolSylvie PetetinSilvère BastienSibylle Laugier-SerisanisEmmanuel Lescot+5 more
- 3Arles municipal council45 seats by listARLES AU COEUR 33 · L'UNION POUR ARLES 8 · FIERS D'ÊTRE ARLÉSIENS 3 · PLUS PROCHES D'ARLES 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération d'Arles-Crau-Camargue-MontagnetteArles holds 22 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 44 members of the Arles municipal council
The mayor and 13 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick de Carolis | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mandy Graillon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cyril Juglaret | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire de Vincens de Causans | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Raviol | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Petetin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Silvère Bastien | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sibylle Laugier-Serisanis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Lescot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire Mailhan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Antoine Parra | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ilham Bouaroua | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gerard Quaix | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Gournes | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (44)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick de Carolis | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mandy Graillon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cyril Juglaret | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire de Vincens de Causans | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Raviol | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Petetin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Silvère Bastien | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sibylle Laugier-Serisanis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Lescot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire Mailhan | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Antoine Parra | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ilham Bouaroua | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gerard Quaix | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Gournes | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sebastien Abonneau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antonia Allard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Andrieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Balguerie-Raulet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Bausch | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rémy Benson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adille Chakri | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Chauvin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Djemai | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Frédéric Déjean | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Francoise Esteve | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Grand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Grasser | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Melinda Guarese | Conseiller municipal | June 1, 2026 |
| Camille Hoteman | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elodie Jalabert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Jalabert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurelie Janicki | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Koukas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Malika Lagneau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Maureau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Mazel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Monteils | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Morangis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Pachoud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Poirier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guy Rouviere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Erick Souque | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucile Venet-Le-Luc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Richard Vidal | 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 Arles, above.
How Arles voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
21,966 votes cast for a list
22,370 of 38,069 registered voters in Arles voted.
194 blank and 210 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
21,056 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
21,459 of 38,083 registered voters in Arles voted.
224 blank and 179 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.
Arles spends €2,115 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
Arles owed €85M at the end of 2025, €1,640 per resident, higher than in 91% of compared French communes, equal to 88% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,115 | €242 | €1,640 | €85M |
| 2024 | €2,198 | €382 | €1,781 | €91.1M |
| 2023 | €2,053 | €330 | €1,882 | €97.3M |
| 2022 | €2,047 | €334 | €1,965 | €100.7M |
| 2021 | €1,842 | €297 | €2,011 | €104.2M |
| 2020 | €1,700 | €190 | €1,997 | €106.5M |
| 2019 | €1,784 | €234 | €2,033 | €109.4M |
| 2018 | €1,812 | €251 | €2,065 | €111.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Saint-Herblain, €81. Highest: Massy, €2,750.
Have a say in Arles
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 Arles 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 Arles’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Arles?
Patrick de Carolis, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Arles have?
The Arles municipal council has 44 members, the mayor and 13 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Arles?
ARLES AU COEUR, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.4% of the votes; it holds 33 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Arles?
56.4% 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 Arles?
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 Arles have?
€85M at the end of 2025, €1,640 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Arles part of?
Arles is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Arles-Crau-Camargue-Montagnette, 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.