How is Dinan run?
Didier Lechien has been mayor of Dinan since March 21, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Dinan Léhon Evidemment won 30 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 69.7% of the votes. Dinan is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Dinan Agglomération.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Côtes-d'Armor and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- Dinan Léhon Evidemment3011 community seats
- BIEN VIVRE ICI52 community seats
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 Dinan 13 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Dinan Agglomération (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: Didier Lechien · 35 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 21, 2026Didier Lechien
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilChantal BoulouxCharles HouzeLaurence Le DûDidier DeruOdile Miel-GiresseTanguy MétropeChristine MassartGrégory Peretou+2 more
- 3Dinan municipal council35 seats by listDinan Léhon Evidemment 30 · BIEN VIVRE ICI 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Dinan AgglomérationDinan holds 13 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 35 members of the Dinan municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| René Degrenne | Maire délégué | March 21, 2026 |
| Didier Lechien | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Chantal Bouloux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Charles Houze | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Laurence Le Dû | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Didier Deru | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Odile Miel-Giresse | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Tanguy Métrope | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Massart | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégory Peretou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Guillemot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yannick Hellio | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| René Degrenne | Maire délégué | March 21, 2026 |
| Didier Lechien | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Chantal Bouloux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Charles Houze | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Laurence Le Dû | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Didier Deru | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Odile Miel-Giresse | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Tanguy Métrope | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Massart | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégory Peretou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Guillemot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yannick Hellio | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Soilihi Aboudou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marina Badoual | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Bobigeat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christelle Bouvier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stella Corbes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Angèle Couëllan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sonia Dabin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clémence Essevaz-Roulet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Matthieu Jouneau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yves Koziel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandra Le Dréan-Smejkal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yann Lucas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Malidor | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Morant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Morin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Orhant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lydie Patry | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Émilie Pinson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Béatrice Sagory | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Camille Soufflet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Baptiste Thévelein | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Touminet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Vandamme | 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 Dinan, above.
How Dinan voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
5,998 votes cast for a list
6,227 of 11,033 registered voters in Dinan voted.
130 blank and 99 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.
Dinan spends €1,798 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
Dinan owed €12.5M at the end of 2025, €806 per resident, higher than in 55% of compared French communes, equal to 61% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,798 | €484 | €806 | €12.5M |
| 2024 | €1,883 | €553 | €733 | €11.2M |
| 2023 | €1,568 | €254 | €567 | €8.6M |
| 2022 | €1,561 | €360 | €680 | €10.2M |
| 2021 | €1,558 | €384 | €747 | €11.1M |
| 2020 | €1,570 | €417 | €855 | €12.6M |
| 2019 | €1,557 | €502 | €954 | €14.2M |
| 2018 | €1,502 | €415 | €670 | €9.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 21st 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: Canteleu, €1. Highest: Romilly-sur-Seine, €2,169.
Have a say in Dinan
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 Dinan 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 Dinan’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Dinan?
Didier Lechien, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Dinan have?
The Dinan municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Dinan?
Dinan Léhon Evidemment, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 69.7% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Dinan?
56.4% 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 Dinan?
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 Dinan have?
€12.5M at the end of 2025, €806 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Dinan part of?
Dinan is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Dinan Agglomération, 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.