Photo: Florent Chouffot · CC BY-SA 3.0Brive-la-Gaillarde carries more debt per resident than 95% of compared communes
Frédéric Soulier has been mayor of Brive-la-Gaillarde since March 15, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UN PROJET POUR BRIVE won 34 of the 43 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.6% of the votes. Brive-la-Gaillarde is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Corrèze and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Brive-la-Gaillarde’s town hall
Won in the first round
UN PROJET POUR BRIVE won 57.6% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 4 lists stood. It took 34 of the 43 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
53.3% of registered voters in Brive-la-Gaillarde voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 67% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Corrèze was 67.6%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Brive-la-Gaillarde owed €92.8M at the end of 2025, €1,935 per resident: higher than in 95% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 124% 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.
- UN PROJET POUR BRIVE3427 community seats
- TOUT POUR BRIVE ! AVEC VALÉRY ELOPHE43 community seats
- Brive notre avenir32 community seats
- UNI.E.S POUR BRIVE, DÉMOCRATIQUE,ÉCOLOGIQUE, SOCIALE21 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde 33 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive (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: Frédéric Soulier · 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 15, 2026Frédéric Soulier
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilValérie TaurissonOlivier BonnichonSylvie Alvinerie-BousquetPhilippe DelarueDominique EyssartierMichel Da CunhaSandrine MartinJoël Grostin+3 more
- 3Brive-la-Gaillarde municipal council43 seats by listUN PROJET POUR BRIVE 34 · TOUT POUR BRIVE ! AVEC VALÉRY ELOPHE 4 · Brive notre avenir 3 · UNI.E.S POUR BRIVE, DÉMOCRATIQUE,ÉCOLOGIQUE, SOCIALE 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de BriveBrive-la-Gaillarde holds 33 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Soulier | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Valérie Taurisson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Bonnichon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Alvinerie-Bousquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Delarue | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Eyssartier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Da Cunha | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Joël Grostin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Christine Lacombe | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Veyssiere | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Findeling | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Soulier | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Valérie Taurisson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Bonnichon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Alvinerie-Bousquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Delarue | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Eyssartier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Da Cunha | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Joël Grostin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Christine Lacombe | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Veyssiere | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Findeling | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Bartout | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Boel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Norbert Bonnafous | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mathieu Bosredon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Chaumeil | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anna Colasson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hélène Courtarie | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Valéry Elophe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Umit Eroglu | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Vanille Foussard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Gabriel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Arthur Goudeaux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Richard Griffouillere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Homaitre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fatima Jacinto | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Lescure | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sophie Marcucci | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Agnès Massonnier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Maurin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Monteil | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Peyret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laure Pianezza | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Poncharal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Pradayrol | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Paul Roche | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Soulier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Souquieres | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hugo Veyssiere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Veyssiere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Veytizoux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Carine Voisin-Treny | 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde, above.
How Brive-la-Gaillarde voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
17,188 votes cast for a list
17,592 of 32,992 registered voters in Brive-la-Gaillarde voted.
197 blank and 207 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.
Brive-la-Gaillarde spends €2,065 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
Brive-la-Gaillarde owed €92.8M at the end of 2025, €1,935 per resident, higher than in 95% of compared French communes, equal to 124% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,065 | €510 | €1,935 | €92.8M |
| 2024 | €1,987 | €396 | €1,919 | €91.8M |
| 2023 | €1,961 | €444 | €1,826 | €86.1M |
| 2022 | €1,769 | €336 | €1,823 | €86.8M |
| 2021 | €1,680 | €284 | €1,897 | €90.9M |
| 2020 | €1,706 | €267 | €1,974 | €95.2M |
| 2019 | €1,907 | €498 | €1,973 | €95.4M |
| 2018 | €1,788 | €356 | €1,966 | €95.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Puteaux, €17. Highest: Aubagne, €2,718.
Have a say in Brive-la-Gaillarde
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 Brive-la-Gaillarde 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Brive-la-Gaillarde?
Frédéric Soulier, mayor since March 15, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Brive-la-Gaillarde have?
The Brive-la-Gaillarde municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
UN PROJET POUR BRIVE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.6% of the votes; it holds 34 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
53.3% 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde?
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 Brive-la-Gaillarde have?
€92.8M at the end of 2025, €1,935 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Brive-la-Gaillarde part of?
Brive-la-Gaillarde is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive, 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.