Saujon elected its council in the first round
Pascal Ferchaud has been mayor of Saujon since March 20, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, SAUJON - L'EXPÉRIENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI, L'ÉNERGIE DE DEMAIN won 23 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes. Saujon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Royan Atlantique.
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 Saujon’s town hall
Won in the first round
SAUJON - L'EXPÉRIENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI, L'ÉNERGIE DE DEMAIN won 57.4% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 23 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62.8% of registered voters in Saujon voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 76% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Charente-Maritime was 59.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- SAUJON - L'EXPÉRIENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI, L'ÉNERGIE DE DEMAIN235 community seats
- PROCHE DE VOUS, POUR SAUJON40 community seats
- SAUJON : OSONS LE CHANGEMENT !20 community seats
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 Saujon 5 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Royan Atlantique (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: Pascal Ferchaud · 29 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 20, 2026Pascal Ferchaud
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Christophe DoridotMichèle PrévotJean-Marc BabinElisa RatiskolAlain FricaudAlexandra LavoiesJean-François DanielAlexandra Wucher
- 3Saujon municipal council29 seats by listSAUJON - L'EXPÉRIENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI, L'ÉNERGIE DE DEMAIN 23 · PROCHE DE VOUS, POUR SAUJON 4 · SAUJON : OSONS LE CHANGEMENT ! 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Royan AtlantiqueSaujon holds 5 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 29 members of the Saujon municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Pascal Ferchaud | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Doridot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Michèle Prévot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Babin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Elisa Ratiskol | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alain Fricaud | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alexandra Lavoies | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-François Daniel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alexandra Wucher | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Pascal Ferchaud | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Doridot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Michèle Prévot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Babin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Elisa Ratiskol | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alain Fricaud | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alexandra Lavoies | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-François Daniel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Alexandra Wucher | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Mariette Adolphe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Botton | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Daudens | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Delhaye | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gabriel Ditgen | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascaline Duclaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| André Franchi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Luc Gensac | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lucas Gervraud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claudine Grolleau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Hernandez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Lapeyrade Tison | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elia Larrousse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Delphine Le Garrec | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Lemaire | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Lévêque | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Mageaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylviane Mitaine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Nicole | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Madeleine Rouil | 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 Saujon, above.
How Saujon voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,614 votes cast for a list
3,694 of 5,884 registered voters in Saujon voted.
54 blank and 26 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.
Saujon spends €1,449 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
Saujon owed €5.6M at the end of 2025, €751 per resident, higher than in 50% of compared French communes, equal to 75% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,449 | €451 | €751 | €5.6M |
| 2024 | €1,181 | €230 | €749 | €5.5M |
| 2023 | €1,280 | €378 | €769 | €5.6M |
| 2022 | €1,339 | €463 | €808 | €5.9M |
| 2021 | €982 | €142 | €786 | €5.7M |
| 2020 | €924 | €116 | €841 | €6.1M |
| 2019 | €1,032 | €241 | €848 | €6.2M |
| 2018 | €1,039 | €247 | €884 | €6.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Soisy-sur-Seine, €2. Highest: Jaunay-Marigny, €2,086.
Have a say in Saujon
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 Saujon 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 Saujon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saujon?
Pascal Ferchaud, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saujon have?
The Saujon municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saujon?
SAUJON - L'EXPÉRIENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI, L'ÉNERGIE DE DEMAIN, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Saujon?
62.8% 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 Saujon?
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 Saujon have?
€5.6M at the end of 2025, €751 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saujon part of?
Saujon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Royan Atlantique, 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.