In Alès, the council took a second round
Christophe Rivenq has been mayor of Alès since March 22, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, LISTE ALES won 34 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 55.5% of the votes. Alès is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération.
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 Alès’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, LISTE ALES came first with 55.5% and took 34 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.5% of registered voters in Alès voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 76% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Gard was 61.2%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Alès owed €50.9M at the end of 2025, €1,117 per resident: higher than in 75% 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.
- LISTE ALES3422 community seats
- RASSEMBLÉS POUR ALÈS96 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 Alès 28 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération (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: Christophe Rivenq · 43 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, 2026Christophe Rivenq
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilMax RoustanMartine MagneAlain BensakounCatherine LarguierChristian ChambonLéa BoyerPierre MartinMichèle Veyret+4 more
- 3Alès municipal council43 seats by listLISTE ALES 34 · RASSEMBLÉS POUR ALÈS 9
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Alès AgglomérationAlès 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 43 members of the Alès municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Rivenq | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Max Roustan | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Magne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Bensakoun | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Larguier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Chambon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Léa Boyer | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Michèle Veyret | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Aureche | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Claude Albaladejo | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Clauzel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaële Navarro | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Rivenq | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Max Roustan | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Magne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Bensakoun | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Larguier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Chambon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Léa Boyer | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Michèle Veyret | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Aureche | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Claude Albaladejo | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Clauzel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaële Navarro | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Behgdad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Belair | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Benoit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anthony Bordarier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucette Camacho | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Canal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antonia Carillo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Cartulat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ysabelle Castor | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aimé Cavaillé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Cayrier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Daufes-Roux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Doudoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Fages-Droin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Meryl Frizon-Debierre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jenny-Rose Guerchoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emiliano Hacquel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandra Lagulhon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Armande Laupies | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Régis Masson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Meunier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Palmier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Pelat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thibault Pellissier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Christine Peyric | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Rouillon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rose-Marie Soustelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Tribes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Vieux | 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 Alès, above.
How Alès voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
12,459 votes cast for a list
13,362 of 26,821 registered voters in Alès voted.
534 blank and 369 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
13,163 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
13,531 of 26,816 registered voters in Alès voted.
164 blank and 204 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.
Alès spends €1,319 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
Alès owed €50.9M at the end of 2025, €1,117 per resident, higher than in 75% 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 | €1,319 | €371 | €1,117 | €50.9M |
| 2024 | €1,283 | €302 | €1,123 | €49.9M |
| 2023 | €1,363 | €377 | €1,088 | €47.3M |
| 2022 | €1,169 | €221 | €1,075 | €45.6M |
| 2021 | €1,149 | €263 | €1,151 | €47.7M |
| 2020 | €1,256 | €320 | €1,181 | €48.3M |
| 2019 | €1,335 | €388 | €1,407 | €57.8M |
| 2018 | €1,336 | €415 | €1,431 | €58.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Puteaux, €17. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Alès
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 Alès 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 Alès’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Alès?
Christophe Rivenq, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Alès have?
The Alès municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Alès?
LISTE ALES, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 55.5% of the votes; it holds 34 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Alès?
50.5% 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 Alès?
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 Alès have?
€50.9M at the end of 2025, €1,117 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Alès part of?
Alès is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération, 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.