Valence elected its council in the first round
Nicolas Daragon has been mayor of Valence since March 21, 2026, elected by the 49 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT won 41 of the 49 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 58.1% of the votes. Valence is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Valence Romans Agglo.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Drôme and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Valence’s town hall
Won in the first round
NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT won 58.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 6 lists stood. It took 41 of the 49 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
52.8% of registered voters in Valence voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 68% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Drôme was 55.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Valence owed €64.3M at the end of 2025, €982 per resident: higher than in 67% 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.
- NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT4123 community seats
- UNION DE LA GAUCHE ET DES ECOLOGISTES - REUNIR VALENCE42 community seats
- GAUCHE ECOLOGISTE ET POPULAIRE32 community seats
- Rassemblement Valentinois11 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 Valence 28 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Valence Romans Agglo (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: Nicolas Daragon · 49 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, 2026Nicolas Daragon
- 2Deputy mayors15 adjoints, elected by the councilVéronique PugeatFranck SoulignacMarie FrémontGrégory PlanetCécile PauletLaurent MonnetMarie Françoise PascalPierre-Olivier Mahaux+7 more
- 3Valence municipal council49 seats by listNICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT 41 · UNION DE LA GAUCHE ET DES ECOLOGISTES - REUNIR VALENCE 4 · GAUCHE ECOLOGISTE ET POPULAIRE 3 · Rassemblement Valentinois 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Valence Romans AggloValence holds 28 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 49 members of the Valence municipal council
The mayor and 15 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Daragon | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Véronique Pugeat | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Franck Soulignac | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Frémont | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégory Planet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Cécile Paulet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Laurent Monnet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Françoise Pascal | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pierre-Olivier Mahaux | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nadège Riotte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Franck Diratzonian | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nathalie Iliozer | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Georges Rast Klan | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Priotto | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Adem Benchelloug | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Virginie Rioli | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (49)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Daragon | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Véronique Pugeat | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Franck Soulignac | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Frémont | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégory Planet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Cécile Paulet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Laurent Monnet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Françoise Pascal | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pierre-Olivier Mahaux | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nadège Riotte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Franck Diratzonian | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nathalie Iliozer | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Georges Rast Klan | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Christine Priotto | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Adem Benchelloug | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Virginie Rioli | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Kérha Amiri | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Axel Azcué | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Balsan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lionel Brard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Calandre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Chaffois | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Chaumont | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Paul Christophle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Clet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Dallard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexandre Despesse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvain Fauriel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jennifer Gaulier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrick Ginier-Gillet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne Jung | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Malika Kara Laouar | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elise Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jimmy Levacher | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Magnin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandra Miviere | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Vincent Noré | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Abir Ouerghi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Valentine Porché | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michèle Ravelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Renard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Deborah Reynaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Morgane Saillour | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mactar Sene | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Spitz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Adeline Terrail | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anouck Ulrich | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre-Jean Veyret | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Grégoire Vincent | 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 Valence, above.
How Valence voted in March 2026
6 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
21,321 votes cast for a list
21,652 of 40,980 registered voters in Valence voted.
183 blank and 148 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.
Valence spends €1,689 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
Valence owed €64.3M at the end of 2025, €982 per resident, higher than in 67% 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 | €1,689 | €563 | €982 | €64.3M |
| 2024 | €1,751 | €596 | €896 | €58.9M |
| 2023 | €1,525 | €448 | €845 | €55.5M |
| 2022 | €1,379 | €339 | €913 | €60.4M |
| 2021 | €1,232 | €293 | €966 | €63.8M |
| 2020 | €1,239 | €327 | €999 | €65M |
| 2019 | €1,472 | €442 | €1,141 | €73.4M |
| 2018 | €1,444 | €405 | €1,150 | €74M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Hyères, €208. Highest: Levallois-Perret, €3,685.
Have a say in Valence
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 Valence 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 Valence’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Valence?
Nicolas Daragon, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Valence have?
The Valence municipal council has 49 members, the mayor and 15 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Valence?
NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 58.1% of the votes; it holds 41 of the 49 seats.
What was the turnout in Valence?
52.8% 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 Valence?
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 Valence have?
€64.3M at the end of 2025, €982 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Valence part of?
Valence is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Valence Romans Agglo, 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.