In Pontarlier, turnout was lower than in 84% of compared French communes
Patrick Comte has been mayor of Pontarlier since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, De l'ambition pour Pontarlier won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.2% of the votes. Pontarlier is part of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pontarlier.
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 Pontarlier’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, De l'ambition pour Pontarlier came first with 48.2% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
47.5% of registered voters in Pontarlier voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 84% 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- De l'ambition pour Pontarlier2514 community seats
- Pontarlier en actes42 community seats
- PONTARLIER:forte,vivante et responsable31 community seat
- La Gauche Pontissalienne10 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 Pontarlier 17 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pontarlier (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: Patrick Comte · 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 27, 2026Patrick Comte
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Louis GagelinAgathe HenrietFabien ParetNathalie BertinBenjamin LocatelliNathalie BrachetGilles CorginiDelphine Pernin+1 more
- 3Pontarlier municipal council33 seats by listDe l'ambition pour Pontarlier 25 · Pontarlier en actes 4 · PONTARLIER:forte,vivante et responsable 3 · La Gauche Pontissalienne 1
- 4Communauté de communes du Grand PontarlierPontarlier holds 17 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 Pontarlier municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Comte | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Gagelin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Henriet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabien Paret | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Bertin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Locatelli | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Brachet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Corgini | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Delphine Pernin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Klein | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Comte | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Gagelin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Henriet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabien Paret | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Bertin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Locatelli | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Brachet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Corgini | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Delphine Pernin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Klein | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alexandra Aktas-Leroux | Conseiller municipal | March 30, 2026 |
| Philippe Barbezat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Bossert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Didier Chauvin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabrina de Oliveira | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Déborah Dussouillez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alice Ernoult | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Gendrot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Guinchard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bénédicte Hérard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cédric Laithier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Loïc Pierre Le Biavant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Marsais | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Richard Matondo Bakala | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Magalie Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Morel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Pétament | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Sansiviero | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Solay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Vaufrey | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marielle Vieille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophian Violette | 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 Pontarlier, above.
How Pontarlier voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,806 votes cast for a list
5,954 of 12,164 registered voters in Pontarlier voted.
71 blank and 77 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,604 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,776 of 12,156 registered voters in Pontarlier voted.
98 blank and 74 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.
Pontarlier spends €1,582 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
Pontarlier owed €15.2M at the end of 2025, €808 per resident, higher than in 55% of compared French communes, equal to 65% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,582 | €347 | €808 | €15.2M |
| 2024 | €1,475 | €283 | €769 | €14.4M |
| 2023 | €1,453 | €337 | €872 | €16.2M |
| 2022 | €1,388 | €313 | €916 | €16.9M |
| 2021 | €1,333 | €232 | €847 | €15.5M |
| 2020 | €1,349 | €264 | €959 | €17.3M |
| 2019 | €1,539 | €449 | €947 | €17.1M |
| 2018 | €1,651 | €565 | €906 | €16.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: Écully, €0. Highest: Carvin, €3,332.
Have a say in Pontarlier
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 Pontarlier 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 Pontarlier’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Pontarlier?
Patrick Comte, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Pontarlier have?
The Pontarlier municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Pontarlier?
De l'ambition pour Pontarlier, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.2% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Pontarlier?
47.5% 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 Pontarlier?
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 Pontarlier have?
€15.2M at the end of 2025, €808 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Pontarlier part of?
Pontarlier is part of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pontarlier, 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.