In Arnay-le-Duc, the council took a second round
Benjamin Leroux has been mayor of Arnay-le-Duc since March 27, 2026, elected by the 15 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ARNAY PASSIONNEMENT won 12 of the 15 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.2% of the votes. Arnay-le-Duc is part of the Communauté de communes du Pays Arnay Liernais.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Côte-d'Or and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Arnay-le-Duc has 1,342 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Arnay-le-Duc’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, ARNAY PASSIONNEMENT came first with 50.2% and took 12 of the 15 seats; the other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
63.7% of registered voters in Arnay-le-Duc voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 79% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Côte-d'Or was 58.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Little investment
Arnay-le-Duc invested €248 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 24% of its spending: lower than in 77% 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.
- ARNAY PASSIONNEMENT126 community seats
- AGIR POUR ARNAY21 community seat
- PARTAGEONS NOTRE DYNAMISME11 community seat
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 Arnay-le-Duc 8 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Pays Arnay Liernais (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: Benjamin Leroux · 15 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, 2026Benjamin Leroux
- 2Deputy mayors3 adjoints, elected by the councilJeannine SanchezChristophe CrametteClaude Morin
- 3Arnay-le-Duc municipal council15 seats by listARNAY PASSIONNEMENT 12 · AGIR POUR ARNAY 2 · PARTAGEONS NOTRE DYNAMISME 1
- 4Communauté de communes du Pays Arnay LiernaisArnay-le-Duc 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 15 members of the Arnay-le-Duc municipal council
The mayor and 3 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Leroux | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jeannine Sanchez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Cramette | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Morin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (15)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Leroux | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jeannine Sanchez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Cramette | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Morin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Adam | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeremy Berthier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Carlier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Aleth Clerget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jorge de Oliveira | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Domin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Childerique Loffroy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Moati | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Mortier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Ponsard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Benoit Sigros | Conseiller municipal | March 31, 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 Arnay-le-Duc, above.
How Arnay-le-Duc voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
642 votes cast for a list
652 of 1,009 registered voters in Arnay-le-Duc voted.
2 blank and 8 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
626 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
643 of 1,010 registered voters in Arnay-le-Duc voted.
6 blank and 11 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.
Arnay-le-Duc spends €1,024 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
Arnay-le-Duc owed €1M at the end of 2025, €763 per resident, higher than in 51% of compared French communes, equal to 98% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,024 | €248 | €763 | €1M |
| 2024 | €1,056 | €262 | €898 | €1.3M |
| 2023 | €1,478 | €697 | €1,041 | €1.5M |
| 2022 | €867 | €103 | €1,178 | €1.7M |
| 2021 | €800 | €138 | €1,304 | €1.9M |
| 2020 | €702 | €60 | €1,411 | €2.1M |
| 2019 | €953 | €329 | €1,511 | €2.3M |
| 2018 | €955 | €316 | €1,592 | €2.5M |
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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Arnay-le-Duc
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 Arnay-le-Duc 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 Arnay-le-Duc’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Arnay-le-Duc?
Benjamin Leroux, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Arnay-le-Duc have?
The Arnay-le-Duc municipal council has 15 members, the mayor and 3 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Arnay-le-Duc?
ARNAY PASSIONNEMENT, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.2% of the votes; it holds 12 of the 15 seats.
What was the turnout in Arnay-le-Duc?
63.7% 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 Arnay-le-Duc?
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 Arnay-le-Duc have?
€1M at the end of 2025, €763 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Arnay-le-Duc part of?
Arnay-le-Duc is part of the Communauté de communes du Pays Arnay Liernais, 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.