In Dijon, the council took a second round
Nathalie Koenders has been mayor of Dijon since March 28, 2026, elected by the 59 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Dijon. écologique sociale attractive won 47 of the 59 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 58.4% of the votes. Dijon is part of the Dijon Métropole.
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.
What stands out about Dijon’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 8 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Dijon. écologique sociale attractive came first with 58.4% and took 47 of the 59 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
52.7% of registered voters in Dijon voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 69% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Côte-d'Or was 58.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Dijon owed €90.8M at the end of 2025, €557 per resident: lower than in 66% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 51% 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.
- Dijon. écologique sociale attractive4734 community seats
- AGIR POUR DIJON96 community seats
- LE RASSEMBLEMENT DIJONNAIS32 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 Dijon 42 seats on the council of the Dijon Métropole (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: Nathalie Koenders · 59 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 28, 2026Nathalie Koenders
- 2Deputy mayors21 adjoints, elected by the councilAntoine HoareauChristine MartinFrançois DeseilleKarine SavinaHamid El HassouniNuray Akpinar-IstiquamStephane ChevalierClaire Tomaselli+13 more
- 3Dijon municipal council59 seats by listDijon. écologique sociale attractive 47 · AGIR POUR DIJON 9 · LE RASSEMBLEMENT DIJONNAIS 3
- 4Dijon MétropoleDijon holds 42 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 59 members of the Dijon municipal council
The mayor and 21 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Nathalie Koenders | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Antoine Hoareau | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christine Martin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| François Deseille | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Karine Savina | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Hamid El Hassouni | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nuray Akpinar-Istiquam | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stephane Chevalier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire Tomaselli | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Avena | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Martin-Gendre | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Lehenoff | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mélanie Balson | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Morel | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stephanie Vacherot | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Massar N'Diaye | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nadjoua Belhadef | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marien Lovichi | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Céline Maglica | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Billy Chrétien | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Delphine Blaya | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jordane Gallois | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (59)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Nathalie Koenders | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Antoine Hoareau | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christine Martin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| François Deseille | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Karine Savina | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Hamid El Hassouni | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nuray Akpinar-Istiquam | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stephane Chevalier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claire Tomaselli | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Avena | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Martin-Gendre | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Lehenoff | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mélanie Balson | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Morel | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stephanie Vacherot | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Massar N'Diaye | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nadjoua Belhadef | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marien Lovichi | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Céline Maglica | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Billy Chrétien | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Delphine Blaya | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jordane Gallois | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Ayache | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabine Baillot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Bichot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Bordat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Camus | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrice Chateau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florent Colombo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Coudert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Craveur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno David | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri-Bénigne de Vregille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Duchange | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Felkay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Fortier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Gaudilliere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Gerbet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Guvenatam | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clémence Houard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clémentine Hugol-Gential | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Jacquemard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Héléne Juillard-Randrian | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Lemanceau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nina Martins | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Monnot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludmila Monteiro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Petitjean | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Pfander-Meny | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Pierret-Rouget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Thérèse Pugliese | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Rebsamen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Axel Sibert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabine Sicurezza | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emilie Simone | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maël Szabelski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Tenenbaum | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Thirion | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanessa Vaizant | 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 Dijon, above.
How Dijon voted in March 2026
8 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
43,585 votes cast for a list
44,940 of 88,936 registered voters in Dijon voted.
831 blank and 524 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
46,201 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
46,888 of 88,905 registered voters in Dijon voted.
392 blank and 295 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.
Dijon spends €1,436 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
Dijon owed €90.8M at the end of 2025, €557 per resident, lower than in 66% of compared French communes, equal to 51% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,436 | €334 | €557 | €90.8M |
| 2024 | €1,483 | €375 | €618 | €100.6M |
| 2023 | €1,394 | €319 | €679 | €110.3M |
| 2022 | €1,352 | €314 | €751 | €121.2M |
| 2021 | €1,333 | €287 | €818 | €131.1M |
| 2020 | €1,261 | €211 | €877 | €140.4M |
| 2019 | €1,325 | €244 | €940 | €149.5M |
| 2018 | €1,351 | €226 | €994 | €158.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 3rd 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Dijon
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 Dijon 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 Dijon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Dijon?
Nathalie Koenders, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Dijon have?
The Dijon municipal council has 59 members, the mayor and 21 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Dijon?
Dijon. écologique sociale attractive, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 58.4% of the votes; it holds 47 of the 59 seats.
What was the turnout in Dijon?
52.7% 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 Dijon?
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 Dijon have?
€90.8M at the end of 2025, €557 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Dijon part of?
Dijon is part of the Dijon Métropole, 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.