Bourges carries more debt per resident than 89% of compared communes
Yann Galut has been mayor of Bourges since March 27, 2026, elected by the 49 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tous won 38 of the 49 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes. Bourges is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Cher and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Bourges’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tous came first with 53.4% and took 38 of the 49 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.3% of registered voters in Bourges voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 80% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Cher was 51.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Bourges owed €102.6M at the end of 2025, €1,548 per resident: higher than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 119% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tous3827 community seats
- UNIS, CHANGEONS DE CAP86 community seats
- Bouger Bourges, avec Ugo IANNUZZI32 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 Bourges 35 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus (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: Yann Galut · 49 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, 2026Yann Galut
- 2Deputy mayors18 adjoints, elected by the councilJulie FerronJoël AllainMagali BessardYannick BedinCéline MadrollesHugo LefelleNora VivianiRenaud Mettre+10 more
- 3Bourges municipal council49 seats by listAvec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tous 38 · UNIS, CHANGEONS DE CAP 8 · Bouger Bourges, avec Ugo IANNUZZI 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Bourges PlusBourges holds 35 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 49 members of the Bourges municipal council
The mayor and 18 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yann Galut | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julie Ferron | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joël Allain | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magali Bessard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yannick Bedin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Céline Madrolles | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hugo Lefelle | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nora Viviani | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Renaud Mettre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadia Nezlioui | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mustapha Mousalli | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| France Labro | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Cabrera | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magalie Guichard | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guillaume Crepin | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Constance Bonduelle | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Michel | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mélissa Gagneux | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Mautré | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (49)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yann Galut | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julie Ferron | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joël Allain | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magali Bessard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yannick Bedin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Céline Madrolles | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hugo Lefelle | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nora Viviani | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Renaud Mettre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadia Nezlioui | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mustapha Mousalli | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| France Labro | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Cabrera | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magalie Guichard | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guillaume Crepin | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Constance Bonduelle | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Michel | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mélissa Gagneux | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Mautré | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hafida Abidar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Saïd Aïdoud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Blanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alex Charpentier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Cheze-Dho | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Clavier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Dedet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Dolivet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Drurie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Irène Félix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Gau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Guérineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ugo Iannuzzi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Driss Khouda | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sika Lawson-Gaïzer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Lorieux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexis Luberne | Conseiller municipal | March 26, 2026 |
| Philippe Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Menguy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Meseguer | Conseiller municipal | April 8, 2026 |
| Hugo Morel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Pallot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martial Rebeyrol | Conseiller municipal | April 14, 2026 |
| Samir Rhimini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Émilie Rondeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Soulat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pauline Speter-Lejeune | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tanguy Trouve | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Verdier | Conseiller municipal | April 8, 2026 |
| Agnès Zoppe | 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 Bourges, above.
How Bourges voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
20,432 votes cast for a list
21,034 of 43,523 registered voters in Bourges voted.
602 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
20,768 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
21,454 of 43,529 registered voters in Bourges voted.
686 blank and 0 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.
Bourges spends €1,783 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
Bourges owed €102.6M at the end of 2025, €1,548 per resident, higher than in 89% of compared French communes, equal to 119% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,783 | €486 | €1,548 | €102.6M |
| 2024 | €1,720 | €456 | €1,492 | €98M |
| 2023 | €1,488 | €291 | €1,594 | €105.8M |
| 2022 | €1,548 | €321 | €1,700 | €113.3M |
| 2021 | €1,432 | €288 | €1,706 | €113.8M |
| 2020 | €1,461 | €326 | €1,726 | €115M |
| 2019 | €1,547 | €397 | €1,737 | €117.8M |
| 2018 | €1,417 | €308 | €1,860 | €127.2M |
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: Hyères, €208. Highest: Levallois-Perret, €3,685.
Have a say in Bourges
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 Bourges 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 Bourges’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bourges?
Yann Galut, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bourges have?
The Bourges municipal council has 49 members, the mayor and 18 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bourges?
Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tous, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.4% of the votes; it holds 38 of the 49 seats.
What was the turnout in Bourges?
49.3% 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 Bourges?
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 Bourges have?
€102.6M at the end of 2025, €1,548 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bourges part of?
Bourges is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus, 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.