Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent · CC BY 3.0In Aigues-Vives, turnout beat 92% of compared French communes
Magali Pradeille has been mayor of Aigues-Vives since March 27, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Expérience & Renouveau won 17 of the 23 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.5% of the votes. Aigues-Vives is part of the Communauté de communes Rhony, Vistre, Vidourle.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Gard and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Aigues-Vives’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, Expérience & Renouveau came first with 44.5% and took 17 of the 23 seats; the other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
67.3% of registered voters in Aigues-Vives voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 92% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Gard was 61.2%; 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.
- Expérience & Renouveau173 community seats
- Henry Brin - Vivre ensemble41 community seat
- AGIR POUR DEMAIN20 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 Aigues-Vives 4 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Rhony, Vistre, Vidourle (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: Magali Pradeille · 23 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, 2026Magali Pradeille
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilJérémy SerranoAlexandra BruguierAlain DavidVéronique Soubeiran-BagnolsChristophe Ginestie
- 3Aigues-Vives municipal council23 seats by listExpérience & Renouveau 17 · Henry Brin - Vivre ensemble 4 · AGIR POUR DEMAIN 2
- 4Communauté de communes Rhony, Vistre, VidourleAigues-Vives holds 4 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 23 members of the Aigues-Vives municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Magali Pradeille | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérémy Serrano | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alexandra Bruguier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alain David | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Véronique Soubeiran-Bagnols | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Ginestie | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Magali Pradeille | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérémy Serrano | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alexandra Bruguier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alain David | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Véronique Soubeiran-Bagnols | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Ginestie | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elvire Bastida | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henry Brin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martial Cade | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Chaudieres | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Ciscar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérémy Contassot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion Février | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Goellner | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion Guesmia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Henin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Odile Hirtz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Job | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Juan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Letrillard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cécile Ranieri-Vaucher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Ruy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Naïs Torchy | 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 Aigues-Vives, above.
How Aigues-Vives voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,770 votes cast for a list
1,808 of 2,629 registered voters in Aigues-Vives voted.
23 blank and 15 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,726 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,769 of 2,629 registered voters in Aigues-Vives voted.
24 blank and 19 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.
Aigues-Vives spends €1,080 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
Aigues-Vives owed €2.6M at the end of 2025, €754 per resident, higher than in 51% of compared French communes, equal to 114% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,080 | €419 | €754 | €2.6M |
| 2024 | €1,110 | €428 | €824 | €2.8M |
| 2023 | €1,056 | €394 | €976 | €3.3M |
| 2022 | €1,628 | €975 | €745 | €2.5M |
| 2021 | €738 | €178 | €801 | €2.7M |
| 2020 | €749 | €214 | €864 | €2.9M |
| 2019 | €976 | €440 | €943 | €3.1M |
| 2018 | €702 | €146 | €1,021 | €3.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 17th 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: Ambès, €26. Highest: Bonifacio, €7,518.
Have a say in Aigues-Vives
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 Aigues-Vives 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 Aigues-Vives’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Aigues-Vives?
Magali Pradeille, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Aigues-Vives have?
The Aigues-Vives municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Aigues-Vives?
Expérience & Renouveau, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.5% of the votes; it holds 17 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Aigues-Vives?
67.3% 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 Aigues-Vives?
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 Aigues-Vives have?
€2.6M at the end of 2025, €754 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Aigues-Vives part of?
Aigues-Vives is part of the Communauté de communes Rhony, Vistre, Vidourle, 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.