Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA . · CC BY-SA 4.0Le Grau-du-Roi carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Charly Crespe has been mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi since March 27, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Charly CRESPE, agir avec bon sens et respect won 24 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 64.9% of the votes. Le Grau-du-Roi is part of the Communauté de communes Terre de Camargue.
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 Le Grau-du-Roi’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, Charly CRESPE, agir avec bon sens et respect came first with 64.9% and took 24 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.9% of registered voters in Le Grau-du-Roi voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 90% 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
Le Grau-du-Roi owed €33.6M at the end of 2025, €3,909 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 133% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Le Grau-du-Roi invested €1,726 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 37% of its spending: higher than in 99% 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.
- Charly CRESPE, agir avec bon sens et respect2411 community seats
- Docteur Robert CRAUSTE "GARDONS LE CAP"52 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 Le Grau-du-Roi 13 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Terre de Camargue (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: Charly Crespe · 29 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, 2026Charly Crespe
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilMartine Scollo-OgierJean-Pierre FilholCorinne PimientoDavid PapyGuylene BonfiglioChristophe DumontNicole ChanronThierry Mancel
- 3Le Grau-du-Roi municipal council29 seats by listCharly CRESPE, agir avec bon sens et respect 24 · Docteur Robert CRAUSTE "GARDONS LE CAP" 5
- 4Communauté de communes Terre de CamargueLe Grau-du-Roi 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 29 members of the Le Grau-du-Roi municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Charly Crespe | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Scollo-Ogier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Filhol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Pimiento | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| David Papy | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guylene Bonfiglio | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Dumont | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicole Chanron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Mancel | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Charly Crespe | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Scollo-Ogier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Filhol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Pimiento | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| David Papy | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Guylene Bonfiglio | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Dumont | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicole Chanron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Mancel | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Blatière | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Cabrol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Chantre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Constant-Reymond | Conseiller municipal | March 26, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Creiche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Dutois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Liliane Galland | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Houtekins | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aline Laganier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Lamouri | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandy Lashermes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Legrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cecile Marquet | Conseiller municipal | March 31, 2026 |
| Laurence Marsal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Marti | Conseiller municipal | March 26, 2026 |
| Pascal Mayeux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Pellegrin-Ponsole | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Surjus | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anaïs Testi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Vessier | 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 Le Grau-du-Roi, above.
How Le Grau-du-Roi voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,150 votes cast for a list
6,299 of 9,100 registered voters in Le Grau-du-Roi voted.
58 blank and 91 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,985 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,086 of 9,099 registered voters in Le Grau-du-Roi voted.
55 blank and 46 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.
Le Grau-du-Roi spends €4,661 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
Le Grau-du-Roi owed €33.6M at the end of 2025, €3,909 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 133% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €4,661 | €1,726 | €3,909 | €33.6M |
| 2024 | €4,598 | €1,470 | €4,381 | €37.3M |
| 2023 | €3,947 | €1,111 | €4,269 | €36M |
| 2022 | €3,954 | €1,095 | €4,114 | €34.9M |
| 2021 | €3,281 | €621 | €4,549 | €38.8M |
| 2020 | €3,214 | €561 | €4,857 | €41.7M |
| 2019 | €3,939 | €1,269 | €5,128 | €43.9M |
| 2018 | €4,565 | €1,923 | €6,291 | €53.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 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: Isbergues, €254. Highest: Le Grau-du-Roi, €3,909.
Have a say in Le Grau-du-Roi
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 Le Grau-du-Roi 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 Le Grau-du-Roi’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi?
Charly Crespe, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Le Grau-du-Roi have?
The Le Grau-du-Roi municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Le Grau-du-Roi?
Charly CRESPE, agir avec bon sens et respect, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 64.9% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Le Grau-du-Roi?
66.9% 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 Le Grau-du-Roi?
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 Le Grau-du-Roi have?
€33.6M at the end of 2025, €3,909 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Le Grau-du-Roi part of?
Le Grau-du-Roi is part of the Communauté de communes Terre de Camargue, 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.