Photo: Anthony Levrot · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Doulchard carries less debt per resident than 97% of compared communes
Richard Boudet has been mayor of Saint-Doulchard since March 22, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, LISTE D'ACTION POUR SAINT-DOULCHARD won 26 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 79% of the votes. Saint-Doulchard 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 Saint-Doulchard’s town hall
Won in the first round
LISTE D'ACTION POUR SAINT-DOULCHARD won 79% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 26 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Saint-Doulchard owed €662K at the end of 2025, €67 per resident: lower than in 97% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 7% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Saint-Doulchard invested €141 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 13% of its spending: lower than in 93% 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.
- LISTE D'ACTION POUR SAINT-DOULCHARD267 community seats
- LA VOIX DOLCHARDIENNE31 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 Saint-Doulchard 8 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: Richard Boudet · 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 22, 2026Richard Boudet
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilUrbain NtarundengaMarylène BarachetChristian RaucazValérie ChapatDominique GilletSophie Dos SantosBruno MartinsCaroline Bardeiche
- 3Saint-Doulchard municipal council29 seats by listLISTE D'ACTION POUR SAINT-DOULCHARD 26 · LA VOIX DOLCHARDIENNE 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Bourges PlusSaint-Doulchard holds 8 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 Saint-Doulchard municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Boudet | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Urbain Ntarundenga | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Marylène Barachet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Raucaz | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Chapat | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Gillet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Dos Santos | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Martins | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Bardeiche | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Boudet | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Urbain Ntarundenga | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Marylène Barachet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Raucaz | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Chapat | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Gillet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Dos Santos | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Martins | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Bardeiche | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-France Caillet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélanie Celegato | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Valérie Chantefort | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Doleans | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Dubois | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélina Faucher | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Groelly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Guillet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Kévin Hureaux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Lefievre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Limousin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Litzler | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Loiseau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Malapert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Moreau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hervé Pommier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Roussat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Savani | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Telliez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Vallée | 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 Saint-Doulchard, above.
How Saint-Doulchard voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,993 votes cast for a list
4,127 of 7,404 registered voters in Saint-Doulchard voted.
53 blank and 81 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.
Saint-Doulchard spends €1,104 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
Saint-Doulchard owed €662K at the end of 2025, €67 per resident, lower than in 97% of compared French communes, equal to 7% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,104 | €141 | €67 | €662K |
| 2024 | €1,255 | €331 | €95 | €935K |
| 2023 | €1,158 | €215 | €122 | €1.2M |
| 2022 | €1,015 | €106 | €149 | €1.5M |
| 2021 | €951 | €134 | €145 | €1.4M |
| 2020 | €1,041 | €244 | €209 | €2M |
| 2019 | €1,298 | €449 | €232 | €2.3M |
| 2018 | €1,257 | €386 | €236 | €2.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Bondues, €1. Highest: Redon, €2,301.
Have a say in Saint-Doulchard
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 Saint-Doulchard 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 Saint-Doulchard’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Doulchard?
Richard Boudet, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Doulchard have?
The Saint-Doulchard municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Doulchard?
LISTE D'ACTION POUR SAINT-DOULCHARD, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 79% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Doulchard?
55.7% 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 Saint-Doulchard?
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 Saint-Doulchard have?
€662K at the end of 2025, €67 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Doulchard part of?
Saint-Doulchard 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.