In Montbéliard, turnout was lower than in 87% of compared French communes
Marie-Noëlle Biguinet has been mayor of Montbéliard since March 21, 2026, elected by the 36 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MONTBELIARD EN MOUVEMENT won 28 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.5% of the votes. Montbéliard 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 Montbéliard’s town hall
Won in the first round
MONTBELIARD EN MOUVEMENT won 55.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 4 lists stood. It took 28 of the 35 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
45.8% of registered voters in Montbéliard voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 87% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Doubs was 54.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Montbéliard owed €34.7M at the end of 2025, €1,335 per resident: higher than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 87% 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.
- MONTBELIARD EN MOUVEMENT2813 community seats
- MONTBELIARD AUTREMENT52 community seats
- MONTBELIARD INSOUMISE ET CITOYENNE21 community seat
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 Montbéliard 16 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: Marie-Noëlle Biguinet · 36 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, 2026Marie-Noëlle Biguinet
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilAlexandre GauthierChristine SchmittPhilippe DuvernoyAnnie VitaliPhilippe TissotAurélia GirardChristophe FroppierGhénia Bensaou+1 more
- 3Montbéliard municipal council35 seats by listMONTBELIARD EN MOUVEMENT 28 · MONTBELIARD AUTREMENT 5 · MONTBELIARD INSOUMISE ET CITOYENNE 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard AgglomérationMontbéliard holds 16 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 36 members of the Montbéliard municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Marie-Noëlle Biguinet | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexandre Gauthier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Schmitt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Duvernoy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Annie Vitali | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Tissot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aurélia Girard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Froppier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ghénia Bensaou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Eddie Stampone | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (36)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Marie-Noëlle Biguinet | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexandre Gauthier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Schmitt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Duvernoy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Annie Vitali | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Tissot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Aurélia Girard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christophe Froppier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ghénia Bensaou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Eddie Stampone | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Romain Ajoux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Didier Bitard | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Gilles Bornot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrick Cantat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Myriam Chiappa-Kiger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gisèle Cuchet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Da Costa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Karim Djilali | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Rose Galmes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Haddad | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Geoffroy Lang | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Lançon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patricia Lhomme | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aurélie Lollier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Maillard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne Marchand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Samah Mrabet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Noel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rémi Pluche | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrick Tausendfreund | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Toupenet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Traversier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maryse Vuerli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nora Zarlenga | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ines Zerrar | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Zusatz | 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 Montbéliard, above.
How Montbéliard voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
6,161 votes cast for a list
6,449 of 14,076 registered voters in Montbéliard voted.
234 blank and 54 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.
Montbéliard spends €2,052 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
Montbéliard owed €34.7M at the end of 2025, €1,335 per resident, higher than in 83% of compared French communes, equal to 87% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,052 | €526 | €1,335 | €34.7M |
| 2024 | €2,062 | €552 | €1,279 | €33.4M |
| 2023 | €1,893 | €445 | €1,194 | €31.4M |
| 2022 | €1,822 | €438 | €1,146 | €30.2M |
| 2021 | €1,703 | €330 | €1,084 | €28.6M |
| 2020 | €1,715 | €370 | €1,139 | €29.6M |
| 2019 | €1,778 | €380 | €1,213 | €31.6M |
| 2018 | €1,681 | €304 | €1,172 | €30.6M |
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: Rodez, €33. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Montbéliard
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 Montbéliard 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 Montbéliard’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Montbéliard?
Marie-Noëlle Biguinet, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Montbéliard have?
The Montbéliard municipal council has 36 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Montbéliard?
MONTBELIARD EN MOUVEMENT, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.5% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Montbéliard?
45.8% 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 Montbéliard?
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 Montbéliard have?
€34.7M at the end of 2025, €1,335 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Montbéliard part of?
Montbéliard 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.