Angoulême carries more debt per resident than 88% of compared communes
Xavier Bonnefont has been mayor of Angoulême since March 27, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, L'essentiel c'est vous ! won 32 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.3% of the votes. Angoulême is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Charente and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Angoulême’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 9 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, L'essentiel c'est vous ! came first with 48.3% and took 32 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
52.1% of registered voters in Angoulême voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 71% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Charente was 52.5%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Angoulême owed €64.4M at the end of 2025, €1,499 per resident: higher than in 88% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 88% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Angoulême invested €608 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 26% 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.
- L'essentiel c'est vous !3216 community seats
- L'union populaire Angoulême73 community seats
- CHOISISSONS ANGOULEME AVEC PATRICK MARDIKIAN42 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 Angoulême 21 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême (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: Xavier Bonnefont · 43 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, 2026Xavier Bonnefont
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilSamantha LandreauJean-Philippe PoussetElise VouvetPhilippe MonjarretAnne-Laure WillaumezPascal MonierCatherine RevelGuillaume Chupin+4 more
- 3Angoulême municipal council43 seats by listL'essentiel c'est vous ! 32 · L'union populaire Angoulême 7 · CHOISISSONS ANGOULEME AVEC PATRICK MARDIKIAN 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Grand AngoulêmeAngoulême 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 43 members of the Angoulême municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Xavier Bonnefont | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Samantha Landreau | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Pousset | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elise Vouvet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Monjarret | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Willaumez | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Monier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Revel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guillaume Chupin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Marchand | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Djillali Merioua | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Bistos | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gérard Desaphy | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Xavier Bonnefont | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Samantha Landreau | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Pousset | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elise Vouvet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Monjarret | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Willaumez | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Monier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Revel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guillaume Chupin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Marchand | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Djillali Merioua | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Bistos | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gérard Desaphy | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sarah Amrani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denys Baillard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Baleynaud | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Bruno Bardin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laïd Bouazza | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Brumont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hortense Chartier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Comet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hinaya Djabiri | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcel Dommartin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matthieu Dussaigne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Elie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pôl Gatellier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Gautreau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Jouineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Lagarde | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Mardikian | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charlène Mesnard-Calmels | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elodie Pauwels | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Peigat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Aziliz Petit-Louboutin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amélie Peytour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Pierre-Justin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chantal Rassinoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Ros | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florian Surget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Ternet-Paulet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sacha Vin-Niveaux | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Aurélie Zadra | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Zalissa Zoungrana | 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 Angoulême, above.
How Angoulême voted in March 2026
9 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
13,134 votes cast for a list
13,537 of 26,582 registered voters in Angoulême voted.
236 blank and 167 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
13,612 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
13,840 of 26,562 registered voters in Angoulême voted.
115 blank and 113 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.
Angoulême spends €2,314 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
Angoulême owed €64.4M at the end of 2025, €1,499 per resident, higher than in 88% 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 | €2,314 | €608 | €1,499 | €64.4M |
| 2024 | €2,122 | €417 | €1,374 | €58.7M |
| 2023 | €2,005 | €375 | €1,335 | €57.5M |
| 2022 | €2,049 | €460 | €1,385 | €60M |
| 2021 | €1,954 | €421 | €1,294 | €56.2M |
| 2020 | €1,917 | €413 | €1,293 | €56.1M |
| 2019 | €1,975 | €506 | €1,301 | €58.1M |
| 2018 | €1,836 | €378 | €1,377 | €61.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Marcq-en-Barœul, €0. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Angoulême
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 Angoulême 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 Angoulême’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Angoulême?
Xavier Bonnefont, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Angoulême have?
The Angoulême municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Angoulême?
L'essentiel c'est vous !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.3% of the votes; it holds 32 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Angoulême?
52.1% 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 Angoulême?
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 Angoulême have?
€64.4M at the end of 2025, €1,499 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Angoulême part of?
Angoulême is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême, 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.