Brest carries less debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Stéphane Roudaut has been mayor of Brest since March 22, 2026, elected by the 54 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Une nouvelle histoire pour Brest won 44 of the 55 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes. Brest is part of the Brest Métropole.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Finistère and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Brest’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 10 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Une nouvelle histoire pour Brest came first with 57.4% and took 44 of the 55 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Brest owed €33.6M at the end of 2025, €234 per resident: lower than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 25% 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.
- Une nouvelle histoire pour Brest4427 community seats
- La gauche unie pour Brest116 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 Brest 33 seats on the council of the Brest Métropole (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: Stéphane Roudaut · 54 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 22, 2026Stéphane Roudaut
- 2Deputy mayors21 adjoints, elected by the councilVéronique BourbigotClément PosierAurélie DrivetBenoît BuffeteauNorah BelfadelStéphane BaotCamille-Océane Le GallYannick Lossouarn+13 more
- 3Brest municipal council55 seats by listUne nouvelle histoire pour Brest 44 · La gauche unie pour Brest 11
- 4Brest MétropoleBrest holds 33 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 54 members of the Brest municipal council
The mayor and 21 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphane Roudaut | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Bourbigot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Posier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélie Drivet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Buffeteau | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Norah Belfadel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Baot | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Camille-Océane Le Gall | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Lossouarn | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Monot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Coativy | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Garrigues-Kerhascoet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Erwan Carralou | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Margogne | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Gouriou | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Cherrier | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Guillevin | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Russier | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yoann Longuestre | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Tarditi | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Brian Itema | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nelly Bothorel | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (54)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphane Roudaut | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Bourbigot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Posier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélie Drivet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Buffeteau | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Norah Belfadel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Baot | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Camille-Océane Le Gall | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Lossouarn | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Monot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Coativy | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Garrigues-Kerhascoet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Erwan Carralou | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Margogne | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Gouriou | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Cherrier | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Guillevin | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Russier | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yoann Longuestre | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Tarditi | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Brian Itema | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nelly Bothorel | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Aballea | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Abiven | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amandine Affinito | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Balcon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Bazire | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cécile Beaudouin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Colette Boucher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Collovati | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillaume Curral | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime de Souza | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Glen Dissaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Giovanni Eugène Eccelso | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Elkaim | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tristan Foveau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Jaouen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Émilie Kuchel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaël L'Herrou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Axelle Lamour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Le Goïc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Le Scour-Goyat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Taran Marec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Melscoet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Morvan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Malick Niang | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Osswald | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Perhirin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Peron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Reiter | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Richard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Marie Madeleine Terrom | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Tournier | 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 Brest, above.
How Brest voted in March 2026
10 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
49,391 votes cast for a list
51,336 of 86,990 registered voters in Brest voted.
1,945 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
46,531 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
47,424 of 86,967 registered voters in Brest voted.
893 blank and 0 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.
Brest spends €1,222 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
Brest owed €33.6M at the end of 2025, €234 per resident, lower than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 25% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,222 | €279 | €234 | €33.6M |
| 2024 | €1,118 | €184 | €136 | €19.3M |
| 2023 | €1,045 | €158 | €161 | €22.9M |
| 2022 | €981 | €149 | €137 | €19.5M |
| 2021 | €918 | €116 | €183 | €26M |
| 2020 | €912 | €138 | €217 | €30.9M |
| 2019 | €921 | €150 | €196 | €27.9M |
| 2018 | €875 | €114 | €234 | €33.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Brest
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 Brest 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 Brest’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Brest?
Stéphane Roudaut, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Brest have?
The Brest municipal council has 54 members, the mayor and 21 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Brest?
Une nouvelle histoire pour Brest, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes; it holds 44 of the 55 seats.
What was the turnout in Brest?
54.5% 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 Brest?
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 Brest have?
€33.6M at the end of 2025, €234 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Brest part of?
Brest is part of the Brest 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.