Photo: Patrick Despoix · CC BY-SA 3.0Rochefort elected its council in the first round
Hervé Blanché has been mayor of Rochefort since March 15, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, HERVÉ BLANCHÉ 2026 CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE won 30 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 63% of the votes. Rochefort is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Rochefort Océan.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Charente-Maritime and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Rochefort’s town hall
Won in the first round
HERVÉ BLANCHÉ 2026 CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE won 63% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 4 lists stood. It took 30 of the 35 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 below most communes
50.8% of registered voters in Rochefort voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 75% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Charente-Maritime was 59.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Rochefort owed €28.5M at the end of 2025, €1,197 per resident: higher than in 78% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 92% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Rochefort invested €609 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 32% of its spending: higher than in 76% 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.
- HERVÉ BLANCHÉ 2026 CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE3017 community seats
- ROCHEFORT, L'AVENIR AUTREMENT32 community seats
- Rochefort Collectif21 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 Rochefort 20 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Rochefort Océan (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 Blanché · 35 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 15, 2026Hervé Blanché
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilCaroline Campodarve-PuenteAlain GiorgisIsabelle GireaudJacques JaulinSophie CoustyJean-Marie Le BrasNathalie AndrieuJean-Noël Cifoni+1 more
- 3Rochefort municipal council35 seats by listHERVÉ BLANCHÉ 2026 CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE 30 · ROCHEFORT, L'AVENIR AUTREMENT 3 · Rochefort Collectif 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Rochefort OcéanRochefort holds 20 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 35 members of the Rochefort municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Blanché | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Caroline Campodarve-Puente | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Giorgis | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Gireaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Jaulin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sophie Cousty | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Le Bras | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Andrieu | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Noël Cifoni | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Christèle Morin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Blanché | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Caroline Campodarve-Puente | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Giorgis | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Gireaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Jaulin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sophie Cousty | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Le Bras | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Andrieu | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Noël Cifoni | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Christèle Morin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jessica Bouju | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Brard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dimitri Buisson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Burnet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Didier Cannioux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Cerveau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sarah Charley | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre-Antoine Chevaleraud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julie Delerue | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Dutreix | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Ecale | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sabrina Gineau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Grosset | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Hyacinthe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascale Jourdanet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Jublin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Lesauvage | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dorothée Machabert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maxime Michaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Romain Monroux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélodie Obadia | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Séverine Parthenay | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Camille Tripoteau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gérald Vaney | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabrice Vergnier | 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 Rochefort, above.
How Rochefort voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
8,381 votes cast for a list
8,724 of 17,188 registered voters in Rochefort voted.
233 blank and 110 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.
Rochefort spends €1,909 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
Rochefort owed €28.5M at the end of 2025, €1,197 per resident, higher than in 78% of compared French communes, equal to 92% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,909 | €609 | €1,197 | €28.5M |
| 2024 | €1,792 | €521 | €1,260 | €29.9M |
| 2023 | €1,866 | €676 | €1,268 | €30.5M |
| 2022 | €1,651 | €514 | €1,204 | €29.2M |
| 2021 | €1,625 | €510 | €1,233 | €29.9M |
| 2020 | €1,551 | €506 | €1,165 | €28.9M |
| 2019 | €1,428 | €358 | €1,220 | €30.4M |
| 2018 | €1,535 | €328 | €1,410 | €35.1M |
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: Rodez, €33. Highest: Orly, €2,260.
Have a say in Rochefort
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 Rochefort 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 Rochefort’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Rochefort?
Hervé Blanché, mayor since March 15, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Rochefort have?
The Rochefort municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Rochefort?
HERVÉ BLANCHÉ 2026 CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 63% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Rochefort?
50.8% 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 Rochefort?
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 Rochefort have?
€28.5M at the end of 2025, €1,197 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Rochefort part of?
Rochefort is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Rochefort Océan, 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.