Douarnenez carries more debt per resident than 91% of compared communes
Jocelyne Poitevin has been mayor of Douarnenez since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Douarnenez au coeur won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.1% of the votes. Douarnenez is part of the Communauté de communes Douarnenez Communauté.
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 Douarnenez’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Douarnenez au coeur came first with 52.1% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
65.4% of registered voters in Douarnenez voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 86% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Finistère was 62.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Douarnenez owed €24M at the end of 2025, €1,643 per resident: higher than in 91% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 118% 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.
- Douarnenez au coeur2510 community seats
- Douarnenez Solidaire83 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 Douarnenez 13 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Douarnenez Communauté (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: Jocelyne Poitevin · 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 22, 2026Jocelyne Poitevin
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilAndré GuillemotFrançoise LAOUENAN - Le LecPhilippe Le MoigneChristelle DreanoJean-Loup ThivetChristine TanguyHenri Le MévelDiana Rimer
- 3Douarnenez municipal council33 seats by listDouarnenez au coeur 25 · Douarnenez Solidaire 8
- 4Communauté de communes Douarnenez CommunautéDouarnenez holds 13 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 Douarnenez municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jocelyne Poitevin | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| André Guillemot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise LAOUENAN - Le Lec | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Le Moigne | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Dreano | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Loup Thivet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Tanguy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Le Mével | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Diana Rimer | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jocelyne Poitevin | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| André Guillemot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise LAOUENAN - Le Lec | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Le Moigne | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Dreano | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Loup Thivet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Tanguy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Le Mével | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Diana Rimer | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Amalric | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Arroues | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lenaïck Boubechiche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Burel Vigouroux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Cadic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Orria Charlot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Chevert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Doaré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lionel Garnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marine Gonidec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Gueguen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Guilcher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gildas Hémery | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Jaouen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Jouannic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Kerloc'H | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Le Gall | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Séverine Le Quemener | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaetan Olivier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Pencalet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Philippe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Pineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathan Planchette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Judith Quentel | 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 Douarnenez, above.
How Douarnenez voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
8,662 votes cast for a list
8,924 of 12,600 registered voters in Douarnenez voted.
178 blank and 84 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
8,067 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
8,233 of 12,581 registered voters in Douarnenez voted.
97 blank and 69 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.
Douarnenez spends €1,883 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
Douarnenez owed €24M at the end of 2025, €1,643 per resident, higher than in 91% of compared French communes, equal to 118% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,883 | €495 | €1,643 | €24M |
| 2024 | €1,631 | €236 | €1,540 | €22.4M |
| 2023 | €1,611 | €225 | €1,587 | €22.8M |
| 2022 | €1,494 | €235 | €1,629 | €23.4M |
| 2021 | €1,373 | €115 | €1,700 | €24.4M |
| 2020 | €1,460 | €185 | €1,827 | €26.1M |
| 2019 | €1,602 | €259 | €1,832 | €26.6M |
| 2018 | €1,621 | €279 | €1,821 | €26.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 3rd 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: Berre-l'Étang, €1. Highest: Juvignac, €1,919.
Have a say in Douarnenez
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 Douarnenez 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 Douarnenez’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Douarnenez?
Jocelyne Poitevin, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Douarnenez have?
The Douarnenez municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Douarnenez?
Douarnenez au coeur, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.1% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Douarnenez?
65.4% 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 Douarnenez?
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 Douarnenez have?
€24M at the end of 2025, €1,643 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Douarnenez part of?
Douarnenez is part of the Communauté de communes Douarnenez Communauté, 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.