Photo: Sylvain Machefert · CC BY-SA 4.0Bègles invested more per resident in 2025 than 90% of compared communes
Christian Bagate has been mayor of Bègles since March 28, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ESPOIR BÉGLAIS won 30 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.1% of the votes. Bègles is part of the Bordeaux Métropole.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Gironde and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Bègles’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, ESPOIR BÉGLAIS came first with 51.1% and took 30 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
A big year for investment
Bègles invested €853 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 45% of its spending: higher than in 90% 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.
- ESPOIR BÉGLAIS303 community seats
- VIVONS BEGLES ENSEMBLE91 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 Bègles 4 seats on the council of the Bordeaux 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: Christian Bagate · 39 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 28, 2026Christian Bagate
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilIsabelle BerriéMohammed MichrafyCécile Maffre CordonChristophe DumontierCarole LagrilléreQuentin BelaubreAïcha SangaréÉric Trévise+4 more
- 3Bègles municipal council39 seats by listESPOIR BÉGLAIS 30 · VIVONS BEGLES ENSEMBLE 9
- 4Bordeaux MétropoleBègles 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 39 members of the Bègles municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Bagate | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Berrié | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mohammed Michrafy | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Maffre Cordon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Dumontier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Lagrillére | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Quentin Belaubre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aïcha Sangaré | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Éric Trévise | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bérengère Brun | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabrice Delavoye | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Béziat Lauray | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Arthur Chollon | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Bagate | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Berrié | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mohammed Michrafy | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Maffre Cordon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Dumontier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Lagrillére | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Quentin Belaubre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aïcha Sangaré | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Éric Trévise | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bérengère Brun | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabrice Delavoye | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Béziat Lauray | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Arthur Chollon | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Caroline Aguila | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charlotte Amar Dupart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure-Anne Bessagnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Boivinet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélie Bousquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Règis Choffat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroll Fons | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Paul-Armand Frézouls | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Janvier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rémi Joussiaume | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maurice Julien | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Lafon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ali Lazrek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Lefebvre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edwige Lucbernet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florian Minjot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jonathan Mothe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Mourato | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Nau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Ouallet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Parnaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amélie Pierson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Piroth | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clement Rossignol Puech | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Malika Stibi | 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 Bègles, above.
How Bègles voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
11,146 votes cast for a list
11,549 of 21,331 registered voters in Bègles voted.
269 blank and 134 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
11,481 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,673 of 21,327 registered voters in Bègles voted.
123 blank and 69 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.
Bègles spends €1,897 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
Bègles owed €20M at the end of 2025, €637 per resident, lower than in 60% of compared French communes, equal to 61% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,897 | €853 | €637 | €20M |
| 2024 | €1,444 | €405 | €92 | €2.9M |
| 2023 | €1,212 | €186 | €128 | €4M |
| 2022 | €1,158 | €189 | €162 | €5M |
| 2021 | €1,114 | €166 | €203 | €6.1M |
| 2020 | €1,135 | €189 | €259 | €7.5M |
| 2019 | €1,281 | €190 | €316 | €8.9M |
| 2018 | €1,268 | €187 | €382 | €10.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 6th 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: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, €257. Highest: Carpentras, €2,742.
Have a say in Bègles
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 Bègles 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 Bègles’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bègles?
Christian Bagate, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bègles have?
The Bègles municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bègles?
ESPOIR BÉGLAIS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.1% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Bègles?
54.7% 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 Bègles?
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 Bègles have?
€20M at the end of 2025, €637 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bègles part of?
Bègles is part of the Bordeaux 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.