Champagnac invested more per resident in 2025 than 99% of compared communes
Hervé Herchin has been mayor of Champagnac since March 27, 2026, elected by the 15 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CHAMPAGNAC - BOIS DE LEMPRE : UNE COMMUNE UNIE, UNE COMMUNE QUI VIT won 11 of the 15 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.6% of the votes. Champagnac is part of the Communauté de communes Sumène - Artense.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Cantal and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Champagnac has 1,020 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Champagnac’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, CHAMPAGNAC - BOIS DE LEMPRE : UNE COMMUNE UNIE, UNE COMMUNE QUI VIT came first with 41.6% and took 11 of the 15 seats; the other lists share the remaining 4. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
73.2% of registered voters in Champagnac voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Cantal was 68%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
A big year for investment
Champagnac invested €3,039 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 72% of its spending: higher 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- CHAMPAGNAC - BOIS DE LEMPRE : UNE COMMUNE UNIE, UNE COMMUNE QUI VIT113 community seats
- CHAMPAGNAC ET BOIS DE LEMPRE ENSEMBLE POUR UNE NOUVELLE DYNAMIQUE21 community seat
- CHAMPAGNAC NOTRE AVENIR20 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 Champagnac 4 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Sumène - Artense (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: Hervé Herchin · 15 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 27, 2026Hervé Herchin
- 2Deputy mayors4 adjoints, elected by the councilSylvie DumasMickaël DuportMarie-Laure RiffAlexandre Godard
- 3Champagnac municipal council15 seats by listCHAMPAGNAC - BOIS DE LEMPRE : UNE COMMUNE UNIE, UNE COMMUNE QUI VIT 11 · CHAMPAGNAC ET BOIS DE LEMPRE ENSEMBLE POUR UNE NOUVELLE DYNAMIQUE 2 · CHAMPAGNAC NOTRE AVENIR 2
- 4Communauté de communes Sumène - ArtenseChampagnac holds 4 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 15 members of the Champagnac municipal council
The mayor and 4 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Herchin | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Dumas | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mickaël Duport | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Riff | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alexandre Godard | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (15)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Herchin | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Dumas | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mickaël Duport | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Riff | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alexandre Godard | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michelle Bessou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Bobin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Charciarek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Chaumeil | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Cirgoudoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Herchin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raymond Moreau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Rios | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie José Tissandier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Ulmet | 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 Champagnac, above.
How Champagnac voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
654 votes cast for a list
678 of 881 registered voters in Champagnac voted.
20 blank and 4 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
612 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
645 of 881 registered voters in Champagnac voted.
25 blank and 8 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.
Champagnac spends €4,211 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
Champagnac owed €890K at the end of 2025, €854 per resident, higher than in 58% of compared French communes, equal to 73% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €4,211 | €3,039 | €854 | €890K |
| 2024 | €1,883 | €651 | €1,673 | €1.8M |
| 2023 | €1,503 | €414 | €1,865 | €2M |
| 2022 | €1,443 | €520 | €2,045 | €2.2M |
| 2021 | €1,260 | €413 | €2,220 | €2.4M |
| 2020 | €1,481 | €663 | €2,376 | €2.7M |
| 2019 | €1,684 | €844 | €2,539 | €2.9M |
| 2018 | €1,463 | €604 | €2,315 | €2.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 14th 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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Champagnac
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 Champagnac 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 Champagnac’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Champagnac?
Hervé Herchin, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Champagnac have?
The Champagnac municipal council has 15 members, the mayor and 4 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Champagnac?
CHAMPAGNAC - BOIS DE LEMPRE : UNE COMMUNE UNIE, UNE COMMUNE QUI VIT, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.6% of the votes; it holds 11 of the 15 seats.
What was the turnout in Champagnac?
73.2% 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 Champagnac?
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 Champagnac have?
€890K at the end of 2025, €854 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Champagnac part of?
Champagnac is part of the Communauté de communes Sumène - Artense, 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.