Photo: Marcel Roblin · CC BY-SA 4.0Libourne carries more debt per resident than 93% of compared communes
Philippe Buisson has been mayor of Libourne since March 20, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Libourne! won 30 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.6% of the votes. Libourne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais.
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 Libourne’s town hall
Won in the first round
Libourne! won 65.6% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 5 lists stood. It took 30 of the 35 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Libourne owed €44.6M at the end of 2025, €1,767 per resident: higher than in 93% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 114% 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.
- Libourne!3017 community seats
- Une ligne droite pour Libourne21 community seat
- Notre parti c'est Libourne21 community seat
- Libourne s'engage pour la paix10 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 Libourne 19 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais (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: Philippe Buisson · 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, 2026Philippe Buisson
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Philippe Le GalLaurie MagimelThierry MartyJuliette HeurtebisRodolphe GuyotMarlinka Chicoyneau de LavaletteChristophe-Luc RobinVirginie Brouillac+3 more
- 3Libourne municipal council35 seats by listLibourne! 30 · Une ligne droite pour Libourne 2 · Notre parti c'est Libourne 2 · Libourne s'engage pour la paix 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du LibournaisLibourne holds 19 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 Libourne municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Buisson | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Le Gal | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurie Magimel | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Marty | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Juliette Heurtebis | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rodolphe Guyot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marlinka Chicoyneau de Lavalette | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christophe-Luc Robin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Virginie Brouillac | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Denis Sirdey | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| François Boileau | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Karine Berruel | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Buisson | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Le Gal | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurie Magimel | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Marty | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Juliette Heurtebis | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rodolphe Guyot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marlinka Chicoyneau de Lavalette | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christophe-Luc Robin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Virginie Brouillac | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Denis Sirdey | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| François Boileau | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Karine Berruel | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marie-Thérèse Alonso | Conseiller municipal | May 5, 2026 |
| Rachid Azlouni | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Sophie Bernadeau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Derouet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amélie Dulaurens | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marjorie Duprat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Flavie Fournier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Gigot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bilal Halhoul | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gabi Höpper | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Labrousse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Quitterie Loevenbruck | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cédric Loy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emile Lusignan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Denis Mauget | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Merit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Edwige Nomdedeu | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claire Pecout | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Pellarin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Prunis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Baptiste Rousseau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Esther Schreiber | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Liliane Tran | 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 Libourne, above.
How Libourne voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
9,457 votes cast for a list
9,624 of 16,886 registered voters in Libourne voted.
91 blank and 76 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.
Libourne spends €2,122 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
Libourne owed €44.6M at the end of 2025, €1,767 per resident, higher than in 93% of compared French communes, equal to 114% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,122 | €568 | €1,767 | €44.6M |
| 2024 | €2,085 | €539 | €1,850 | €46.4M |
| 2023 | €2,200 | €637 | €1,876 | €46.8M |
| 2022 | €1,909 | €483 | €1,682 | €41.7M |
| 2021 | €1,811 | €447 | €1,615 | €40.5M |
| 2020 | €1,674 | €352 | €1,609 | €40.9M |
| 2019 | €2,041 | €673 | €2,204 | €56.2M |
| 2018 | €1,971 | €654 | €2,119 | €54.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 6th 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: Rodez, €33. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Libourne
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 Libourne 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 Libourne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Libourne?
Philippe Buisson, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Libourne have?
The Libourne municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Libourne?
Libourne!, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.6% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Libourne?
57% 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 Libourne?
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 Libourne have?
€44.6M at the end of 2025, €1,767 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Libourne part of?
Libourne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais, 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.