How is Gradignan run?
Michel Labardin has been mayor of Gradignan since March 20, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, GRADIGNAN POSITIVE ATTITUDE won 30 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 66.5% of the votes. Gradignan 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- GRADIGNAN POSITIVE ATTITUDE303 community seats
- GRADIGNAN DEMAIN AVEC ÉMILIE SARRAZIN40 community seats
- UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR GRADIGNAN10 community seats
As elected in the first round, March 15, 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 Gradignan 3 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: Michel Labardin · 35 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 20, 2026Michel Labardin
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilPhilippe BeauteStéphanie OrtolaRémi DaccordClaire RivencThierry DrouetHélène CarascoLudovic BourdonQuitterie Lagrola+2 more
- 3Gradignan municipal council35 seats by listGRADIGNAN POSITIVE ATTITUDE 30 · GRADIGNAN DEMAIN AVEC ÉMILIE SARRAZIN 4 · UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR GRADIGNAN 1
- 4Bordeaux MétropoleGradignan holds 3 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 35 members of the Gradignan municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michel Labardin | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Beaute | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Ortola | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rémi Daccord | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Claire Rivenc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Drouet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Hélène Carasco | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ludovic Bourdon | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Quitterie Lagrola | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Bisbarre | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marie Desobry | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michel Labardin | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Beaute | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Ortola | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rémi Daccord | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Claire Rivenc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Drouet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Hélène Carasco | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ludovic Bourdon | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Quitterie Lagrola | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Bisbarre | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marie Desobry | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Emilia Alloix | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Ambeau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvain Bontemps | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anaïs Curdy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maëlle Decoster Bleinhant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Renaud Delbru | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amandine Forest | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David Grapin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Hayet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sonia Kijowski | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Bernard Latour | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Laucournet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Lemarchand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Arnaud Leparmentier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Vanessa Palacios-Toumi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corinne Pereur | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Karine Roux-Labat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emilie Sarrazin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Jacques Théau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Trouche | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| André Varignon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédérique Villebord | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Vivion | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maylis Vosgin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 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 Gradignan, above.
How Gradignan voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
10,432 votes cast for a list
10,631 of 18,205 registered voters in Gradignan voted.
104 blank and 95 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.
Gradignan spends €1,648 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
Gradignan owed €22.1M at the end of 2025, €830 per resident, higher than in 56% of compared French communes, equal to 67% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,648 | €408 | €830 | €22.1M |
| 2024 | €1,699 | €429 | €834 | €21.8M |
| 2023 | €1,426 | €242 | €834 | €21.9M |
| 2022 | €1,308 | €185 | €935 | €24.3M |
| 2021 | €1,266 | €168 | €992 | €25.6M |
| 2020 | €1,261 | €218 | €918 | €23.8M |
| 2019 | €1,341 | €274 | €908 | €23.6M |
| 2018 | €1,204 | €166 | €988 | €25.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Sèvremoine, €60. Highest: Biarritz, €2,321.
Have a say in Gradignan
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 Gradignan 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 Gradignan’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Gradignan?
Michel Labardin, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Gradignan have?
The Gradignan municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Gradignan?
GRADIGNAN POSITIVE ATTITUDE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 66.5% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Gradignan?
58.4% 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 Gradignan?
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 Gradignan have?
€22.1M at the end of 2025, €830 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Gradignan part of?
Gradignan 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.