Nîmes carries more debt per resident than 92% of compared communes
Vincent Bouget has been mayor of Nîmes since March 27, 2026, elected by the 59 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Nîmes en commun won 42 of the 59 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41% of the votes. Nîmes is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Nîmes Métropole.
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 Nîmes’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Nîmes en commun came first with 41% and took 42 of the 59 seats; the other lists share the remaining 17. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51% of registered voters in Nîmes voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 74% 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
Nîmes owed €265M at the end of 2025, €1,736 per resident: higher than in 92% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 116% 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.
- Nîmes en commun4237 community seats
- FIERS D'ÊTRE NÎMOIS !1110 community seats
- NÎMES PAR-DESSUS TOUT65 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 Nîmes 52 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Nîmes Métropole (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: Vincent Bouget · 59 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, 2026Vincent Bouget
- 2Deputy mayors22 adjoints, elected by the councilAmal CouvreurPierre JaumainAgnès Charaix-PyBruno FerrierSoukaïna Ben JaafarDenis LanoyMarianne BernedeFrançois Seguy+14 more
- 3Nîmes municipal council59 seats by listNîmes en commun 42 · FIERS D'ÊTRE NÎMOIS ! 11 · NÎMES PAR-DESSUS TOUT 6
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Nîmes MétropoleNîmes holds 52 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 59 members of the Nîmes municipal council
The mayor and 22 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Vincent Bouget | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Amal Couvreur | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Jaumain | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Charaix-Py | 3ème adjoint au Maire | June 5, 2026 |
| Bruno Ferrier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Soukaïna Ben Jaafar | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Denis Lanoy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marianne Bernede | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| François Seguy | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Giacometti | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Colin Gril | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvette Fayet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Nadal | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile Jourdan | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre-Edouard Detrez | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jo Menut | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Mespoulet | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sabine Oromi | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Guillaud | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maya Amer Moussa | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Bois | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Fenech | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Chabanel | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (59)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Vincent Bouget | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Amal Couvreur | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Jaumain | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Charaix-Py | 3ème adjoint au Maire | June 5, 2026 |
| Bruno Ferrier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Soukaïna Ben Jaafar | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Denis Lanoy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marianne Bernede | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| François Seguy | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Giacometti | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Colin Gril | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvette Fayet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Nadal | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile Jourdan | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre-Edouard Detrez | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jo Menut | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Mespoulet | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sabine Oromi | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Guillaud | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maya Amer Moussa | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Bois | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Fenech | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Chabanel | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Dominique Andrieu-Bonnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Janie Arnéguy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Bastid | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Bastide | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Benezet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Benkirat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Monique Boissiere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Loumy Bourghol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laenny Brito de Sousa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Cadène | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Houria Chaida | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fanny Daguenet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Goudard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Jacob | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sibylle Jannekeyn | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Jegat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Josserand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Launay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Meyre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Nuti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jullien Pacioni | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dimitri Pialat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Plantier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Pralong | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Procida | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Proust | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chloé Ridel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Roulle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Roussel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Rouverand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Sanchez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Seguin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Taulelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Titouan Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Tournier Barnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valentine Wolber | 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 Nîmes, above.
How Nîmes voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
53,692 votes cast for a list
54,585 of 94,344 registered voters in Nîmes voted.
419 blank and 474 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
47,425 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
48,151 of 94,331 registered voters in Nîmes voted.
400 blank and 326 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.
Nîmes spends €2,083 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
Nîmes owed €265M at the end of 2025, €1,736 per resident, higher than in 92% of compared French communes, equal to 116% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,083 | €584 | €1,736 | €265M |
| 2024 | €2,047 | €536 | €1,723 | €259M |
| 2023 | €2,033 | €494 | €1,729 | €258.9M |
| 2022 | €1,783 | €383 | €1,609 | €242.6M |
| 2021 | €1,748 | €392 | €1,575 | €239.3M |
| 2020 | €1,702 | €408 | €1,577 | €241.2M |
| 2019 | €1,727 | €409 | €1,554 | €239.6M |
| 2018 | €1,679 | €377 | €1,586 | €244M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Nîmes
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 Nîmes 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 Nîmes’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Nîmes?
Vincent Bouget, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Nîmes have?
The Nîmes municipal council has 59 members, the mayor and 22 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Nîmes?
Nîmes en commun, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41% of the votes; it holds 42 of the 59 seats.
What was the turnout in Nîmes?
51% 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 Nîmes?
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 Nîmes have?
€265M at the end of 2025, €1,736 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Nîmes part of?
Nîmes is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Nîmes Métropole, 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.