In Melle, turnout beat 90% of compared French communes
Ryan Lequien has been mayor of Melle since March 29, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MELLE EN COMMUN won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.7% of the votes. Melle is part of the Communauté de communes Mellois en Poitou.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Deux-Sèvres and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Melle’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, MELLE EN COMMUN came first with 52.7% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.8% of registered voters in Melle voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 90% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Deux-Sèvres was 58.5%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Melle owed €3.1M at the end of 2025, €512 per resident: lower than in 70% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 49% 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.
- MELLE EN COMMUN267 community seats
- Cinq Comm'Une-Melle62 community seats
- VIVONS MELLE ENSEMBLE10 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 Melle 9 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Mellois en Poitou (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: Ryan Lequien · 33 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 29, 2026Ryan Lequien
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilSandrine MathiasChristian LusseauSylvie Denoël-MazoyerPatrice BaudryChristine BouquetPhilippe Villiers
- 3Melle municipal council33 seats by listMELLE EN COMMUN 26 · Cinq Comm'Une-Melle 6 · VIVONS MELLE ENSEMBLE 1
- 4Communauté de communes Mellois en PoitouMelle holds 9 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 33 members of the Melle municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yannick Barré | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| David Coyau | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Guy Fleury | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Ryan Lequien | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Vinatier | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Sandrine Mathias | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christian Lusseau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sylvie Denoël-Mazoyer | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patrice Baudry | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Bouquet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Villiers | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yannick Barré | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| David Coyau | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Guy Fleury | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Ryan Lequien | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Vinatier | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Sandrine Mathias | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christian Lusseau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sylvie Denoël-Mazoyer | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patrice Baudry | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Bouquet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Villiers | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mélanie Bernard-Riviere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Brunet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Chauvet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Colin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Didier Desmier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sokhna Dieye-Lorioux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Fouchier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valentine Gendet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Griffault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Guérin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Diane Jegou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Axel Labrousse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Manguy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guy Moreau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Katia Mougon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Omer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Rambaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederic Rivault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Muriel Sabourin Benelhadj | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Sansault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Helene Uge | 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 Melle, above.
How Melle voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
3,021 votes cast for a list
3,063 of 4,317 registered voters in Melle voted.
24 blank and 18 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,816 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,885 of 4,318 registered voters in Melle voted.
37 blank and 32 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.
Melle spends €1,460 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
Melle owed €3.1M at the end of 2025, €512 per resident, lower than in 70% of compared French communes, equal to 49% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,460 | €412 | €512 | €3.1M |
| 2024 | €1,352 | €337 | €547 | €3.4M |
| 2023 | €1,354 | €395 | €586 | €3.7M |
| 2022 | €1,245 | €290 | €621 | €4M |
| 2021 | €1,025 | €174 | €683 | €4.5M |
| 2020 | €888 | €177 | €730 | €4.8M |
| 2019 | €975 | €194 | €766 | €5.1M |
| 2018 | €1,066 | €345 | €782 | €5.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 14th 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: Erdre-en-Anjou, €200. Highest: Lacanau, €3,516.
Have a say in Melle
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 Melle 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 Melle’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Melle?
Ryan Lequien, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Melle have?
The Melle municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Melle?
MELLE EN COMMUN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.7% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Melle?
66.8% 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 Melle?
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 Melle have?
€3.1M at the end of 2025, €512 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Melle part of?
Melle is part of the Communauté de communes Mellois en Poitou, 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.