In Bethoncourt, turnout was lower than in 91% of compared French communes
Matthieu Guinebert has been mayor of Bethoncourt since March 29, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, BETHONCOURT EN COMMUN won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53% of the votes. Bethoncourt is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Doubs and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Bethoncourt’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, BETHONCOURT EN COMMUN came first with 53% and took 22 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
44.1% of registered voters in Bethoncourt voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 91% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Doubs was 54.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Little investment
Bethoncourt invested €202 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 18% of its spending: lower than in 85% 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.
- BETHONCOURT EN COMMUN222 community seats
- PARTAGEONS NOTRE AVENIR71 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 Bethoncourt 3 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard 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: Matthieu Guinebert · 29 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, 2026Matthieu Guinebert
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilNacera BouktirBenjamin Cerutti SalvadorKhadija El MakriniJalal DoukkarChristine Skowronek
- 3Bethoncourt municipal council29 seats by listBETHONCOURT EN COMMUN 22 · PARTAGEONS NOTRE AVENIR 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard AgglomérationBethoncourt holds 3 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 29 members of the Bethoncourt municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Matthieu Guinebert | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nacera Bouktir | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Benjamin Cerutti Salvador | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Khadija El Makrini | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jalal Doukkar | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Skowronek | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Matthieu Guinebert | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nacera Bouktir | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Benjamin Cerutti Salvador | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Khadija El Makrini | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jalal Doukkar | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christine Skowronek | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mazlum Abay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Josette Adami | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean André | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Avci | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Berthel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Blaise | Conseiller municipal | June 18, 2026 |
| Martine Bolmont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Abdelhamed Bounazou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Musa Cifci | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Corouge | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Delhautal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nordine El Mir | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Judicaël Gheidene | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jamal Hajji-Kassouane | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raymond Hernandez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Odile Joannes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Ligliozzolo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| José Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Josette Michaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Midol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maud Simon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Halima Toub | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yvan Vachet | 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 Bethoncourt, above.
How Bethoncourt voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,419 votes cast for a list
1,474 of 3,124 registered voters in Bethoncourt voted.
31 blank and 24 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,317 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,379 of 3,124 registered voters in Bethoncourt voted.
34 blank and 28 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.
Bethoncourt spends €1,104 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
Bethoncourt owed €4.9M at the end of 2025, €907 per resident, higher than in 62% of compared French communes, equal to 101% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,104 | €202 | €907 | €4.9M |
| 2024 | €1,065 | €133 | €1,010 | €5.4M |
| 2023 | €1,007 | €145 | €1,109 | €6M |
| 2022 | €1,029 | €131 | €1,183 | €6.5M |
| 2021 | €998 | €156 | €1,254 | €7M |
| 2020 | €944 | €150 | €1,324 | €7.6M |
| 2019 | €939 | €112 | €1,392 | €8.1M |
| 2018 | €981 | €127 | €1,500 | €8.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Erquinghem-Lys, €112. Highest: Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne, €2,184.
Have a say in Bethoncourt
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 Bethoncourt 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 Bethoncourt’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bethoncourt?
Matthieu Guinebert, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bethoncourt have?
The Bethoncourt municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bethoncourt?
BETHONCOURT EN COMMUN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Bethoncourt?
44.1% 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 Bethoncourt?
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 Bethoncourt have?
€4.9M at the end of 2025, €907 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bethoncourt part of?
Bethoncourt is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard 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.