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Gennes town hall

In Gennes, turnout beat 99% of compared French communes

Jean-Michel Lhommée has been mayor of Gennes since March 15, 2026, elected by the 15 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Ensemble pour Gennes 2026 won 12 of the 15 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.5% of the votes. Gennes is part of the Communauté urbaine Grand Besançon Métropole.

Next municipal elections

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. Gennes has 669 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.

Mayor
Jean-Michel Lhommée
since March 15, 2026
Council members
15
including 4 deputy mayors
Turnout, March 2026
72%
first round · France median 57%
Debt per resident
€769
end of 2025 · France median €748
In brief

What stands out about Gennes’s town hall

Won in the first round

Ensemble pour Gennes 2026 won 50.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 12 of the 15 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓

Turnout above most communes

72.3% of registered voters in Gennes voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Doubs was 54.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓

Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.

Who’s in charge

The council the voters chose

Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.

Municipal council · 15 seatsGennes municipal councilEnsemble pour Gennes 2026: 12 of 15
  • Ensemble pour Gennes 202612
  • GENNES TERRE D'AVENIR3

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.

Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.

Who runs Gennes

4 authorities share the work

The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.

Commune · the town hallMairie de Gennes

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: Jean-Michel Lhommée · 15 councilors

Intercommunality · communauté urbaineCommunauté urbaine Grand Besançon Métropole

The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.

DépartementConseil départemental · Doubs

Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.

RégionConseil régional · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.

Who to ask

Birth, marriage and death certificatesMairie de Gennes
Registering to voteMairie de Gennes
Nursery and primary schoolsMairie de Gennes
Building permits (filed at the town hall)Mairie de Gennes
Household waste (usually)Communauté urbaine Grand Besançon Métropole
Collèges (ages 11 to 15)Conseil départemental · Doubs
RSA, care for older people, child protectionConseil départemental · Doubs
Lycées (ages 15 to 18)Conseil régional · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Regional trains (TER)Conseil régional · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
ID cards and passportsAny town hall that takes applications, by appointment

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.

Who represents Gennes

From the mayor to the intercommunality

The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.

  1. 1
    Mayorsince March 15, 2026
    Jean-Michel Lhommée
  2. 2
    Deputy mayors4 adjoints, elected by the council
    Anne-Sophie ParriauxThierry MorelStéphanie PantaniDavid Fleury
  3. 3
    Gennes municipal council15 seats by list
    Ensemble pour Gennes 2026 12 · GENNES TERRE D'AVENIR 3

Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.

The council

The 15 members of the Gennes municipal council

The mayor and 4 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.

NameOfficeSince
Jean-Michel LhomméeMaireMarch 15, 2026
Anne-Sophie Parriaux1er adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Thierry Morel2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Stéphanie Pantani3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
David Fleury4ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Show the full council (15)
NameOfficeSince
Jean-Michel LhomméeMaireMarch 15, 2026
Anne-Sophie Parriaux1er adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Thierry Morel2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Stéphanie Pantani3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
David Fleury4ème adjoint au MaireMarch 15, 2026
Jean-Baptiste AubryConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Sandrine BroussaudierConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
François GuillaumeConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Martin KunstlerConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Elodie LacroixConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Adrien LugagneConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Laurent RopersConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Béatrice SoittouxConseiller municipalMarch 26, 2026
Aurélie SuzonConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Martine Vuillecard MoralesConseiller municipalMarch 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 Gennes, above.

2026 elections

How Gennes voted in March 2026

2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.

Municipal council of Gennesfirst round · March 15, 2026
Ensemble pour Gennes 202612 seats50.5%
GENNES TERRE D'AVENIR3 seats49.5%

374 votes cast for a list

Turnout · first round
72%

381 of 527 registered voters in Gennes voted.

6 blank and 1 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.

Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026

GennesMedian in DoubsFrance median
Voted72.3%
0%50%100%

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.

The commune’s money

Gennes spends €1,438 per resident a year

The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.

Spending
€1,438
per resident, 2025
€998K in all
Running costs
€1,138
per resident, 2025
€790K in all
Investment
€300
per resident, 2025
€208K in all
Debt
€769
per resident, end of 2025
€534K in all

Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes

GennesMedian in DoubsFrance median
Spending€1,438
Running costs€1,138
Investment€300
Debt€769
€0€1,000€2,000

Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025

€0€500€1,000€1,500€2,00020182019202020212022202320242025Spending 2018 : €973Spending 2019 : €1,523Spending 2020 : €736Spending 2021 : €627Spending 2022 : €713Spending 2023 : €767Spending 2024 : €1,012Spending 2025 : €1,438Debt 2018 : €557Debt 2019 : €933Debt 2020 : €375Debt 2021 : €379Debt 2022 : €372Debt 2023 : €348Debt 2024 : €679Debt 2025 : €769DebtSpending

Gennes owed €534K at the end of 2025, €769 per resident, higher than in 52% of compared French communes, equal to 68% of a year’s running costs.

Show year by year
YearSpendingInvestmentDebtDebt in all
2025€1,438€300€769€534K
2024€1,012€125€679€474K
2023€767€138€348€244K
2022€713€159€372€261K
2021€627€134€379€266K
2020€736€220€375€263K
2019€1,523€1,014€933€652K
2018€973€379€557€385K

Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.

Towns its size

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.

Gennes €769
WattenMers-les-Bains
€0€1,700€3,400

Lowest: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.

Get involved

Have a say in Gennes

Register to vote

French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.

service-public.fr ↗
Check your registration

See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.

service-public.fr ↗
Go to a council meeting

Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.

service-public.fr ↗
Contact the town hall

Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Gennes in the public services directory.

lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗
Stand for the council

Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.

interieur.gouv.fr ↗
How to read these numbers

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 Gennes’s town hall

Who is the mayor of Gennes?

Jean-Michel Lhommée, mayor since March 15, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).

How many councilors does Gennes have?

The Gennes municipal council has 15 members, the mayor and 4 deputy mayors included.

Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Gennes?

Ensemble pour Gennes 2026, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.5% of the votes; it holds 12 of the 15 seats.

What was the turnout in Gennes?

72.3% 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 Gennes?

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 Gennes have?

€534K at the end of 2025, €769 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.

Which intercommunality is Gennes part of?

Gennes is part of the Communauté urbaine Grand Besançon 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.