Photo: Georgestib · CC0Bessèges carries more debt per resident than 94% of compared communes
Christine Roux has been mayor of Bessèges since March 27, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AGIR POUR BESSEGES won 18 of the 23 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 58.3% of the votes. Bessèges is part of the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes.
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 Bessèges’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, AGIR POUR BESSEGES came first with 58.3% and took 18 of the 23 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62.5% of registered voters in Bessèges voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 75% 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
Bessèges owed €4.9M at the end of 2025, €1,840 per resident: higher than in 94% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 138% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Bessèges invested €183 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 12% of its spending: lower than in 88% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- AGIR POUR BESSEGES185 community seats
- BESSEGES LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIR51 community seat
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 Bessèges 6 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes (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: Christine Roux · 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, 2026Christine Roux
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilJacques MolleJennifer GuerinSerge GrangeonGhislaine BourdelFabrice RouzetFlavie Martel
- 3Bessèges municipal council23 seats by listAGIR POUR BESSEGES 18 · BESSEGES LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIR 5
- 4Communauté de communes de Cèze CévennesBessèges holds 6 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 Bessèges municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christine Roux | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jacques Molle | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jennifer Guerin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Grangeon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Bourdel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabrice Rouzet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Flavie Martel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christine Roux | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jacques Molle | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jennifer Guerin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Grangeon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Bourdel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabrice Rouzet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Flavie Martel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| John Bodin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alice Bonnefoy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurelien Bouc | Conseiller municipal | April 24, 2026 |
| Florence Boutet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Esmeralda Carlier | Conseiller municipal | April 8, 2026 |
| Julien Carrier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ange Casano | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Fabre Steckiw | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Legrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Lobier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evan Murillo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jannick Polo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Rollet | Conseiller municipal | April 24, 2026 |
| Christine Salavert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antonio Trizzulla | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Luc Van Der Haeghen | 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 Bessèges, above.
How Bessèges voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,143 votes cast for a list
1,202 of 1,977 registered voters in Bessèges voted.
30 blank and 29 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,198 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,236 of 1,977 registered voters in Bessèges voted.
27 blank and 11 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.
Bessèges spends €1,518 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
Bessèges owed €4.9M at the end of 2025, €1,840 per resident, higher than in 94% of compared French communes, equal to 138% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,518 | €183 | €1,840 | €4.9M |
| 2024 | €1,385 | €220 | €1,896 | €5.2M |
| 2023 | €1,373 | €162 | €1,748 | €4.9M |
| 2022 | €1,627 | €485 | €1,794 | €5.1M |
| 2021 | €1,314 | €168 | €1,897 | €5.4M |
| 2020 | €1,280 | €149 | €1,778 | €5.1M |
| 2019 | €1,367 | €163 | €1,877 | €5.4M |
| 2018 | €1,409 | €243 | €1,748 | €5.1M |
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: Haspres, €80. Highest: Saint-Jean-du-Gard, €2,722.
Have a say in Bessèges
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 Bessèges 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 Bessèges’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bessèges?
Christine Roux, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bessèges have?
The Bessèges municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bessèges?
AGIR POUR BESSEGES, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 58.3% of the votes; it holds 18 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Bessèges?
62.5% 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 Bessèges?
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 Bessèges have?
€4.9M at the end of 2025, €1,840 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bessèges part of?
Bessèges is part of the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes, 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.