Photo: Mspecht · CC BY-SA 3.0How is Mérignac run?
Thierry Trijoulet has been mayor of Mérignac since March 21, 2026, elected by the 49 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE, NOUS SOMMES MERIGNAC won 39 of the 49 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 51.8% of the votes. Mérignac 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.
- ENSEMBLE, NOUS SOMMES MERIGNAC397 community seats
- MERIGNAC NOUS RASSEMBLE51 community seat
- L'ALTERNANCE POUR MERIGNAC41 community seat
- Faire Mieux pour Mérignac10 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 Mérignac 9 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: Thierry Trijoulet · 49 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 21, 2026Thierry Trijoulet
- 2Deputy mayors18 adjoints, elected by the councilVanessa Fergeau-RenauxJean-Charles AstierAnne Eugénie GasparBastien RivièresAmélie AudoitGérard ChaussetSamira El KhadirÉric Sarraute+10 more
- 3Mérignac municipal council49 seats by listENSEMBLE, NOUS SOMMES MERIGNAC 39 · MERIGNAC NOUS RASSEMBLE 5 · L'ALTERNANCE POUR MERIGNAC 4 · Faire Mieux pour Mérignac 1
- 4Bordeaux MétropoleMérignac holds 9 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 49 members of the Mérignac municipal council
The mayor and 18 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thierry Trijoulet | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Vanessa Fergeau-Renaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Charles Astier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne Eugénie Gaspar | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Bastien Rivières | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Amélie Audoit | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Chausset | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Samira El Khadir | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Éric Sarraute | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Mauricette Boisseau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Frank Yvonneau | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Véronique Trézéguet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Joël Mauvigney | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Caroline Van Renterghem | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Serviès | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Émilie Marches | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alain Charrier | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Michelle Pagès | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Stéphane Brunel | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (49)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thierry Trijoulet | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Vanessa Fergeau-Renaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Charles Astier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne Eugénie Gaspar | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Bastien Rivières | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Amélie Audoit | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Chausset | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Samira El Khadir | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Éric Sarraute | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Mauricette Boisseau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Frank Yvonneau | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Véronique Trézéguet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Joël Mauvigney | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Caroline Van Renterghem | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Serviès | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Émilie Marches | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alain Charrier | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Michelle Pagès | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Stéphane Brunel | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Denis Abrand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fatima Ait Keddour | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Arnaud Arfeuille | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jimmy Bourlieux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Cassou-Schotte | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Ange Chaussoy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rémi Cocuelle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Couronneau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alessandro Di Somma | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aurélie Doulut | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aimeric Enard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Kubilay Ertekin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Loïc Farnier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alice Herbert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrice Lassalle-Bareilles | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Prefmandh Mabiala | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Malkiel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Mellier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Millet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clémence Naveys-Dumas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patricia Nedel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Preslia Okou | Conseiller municipal | March 17, 2026 |
| Loan Panifous | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Loïc Pedelucq | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Peyre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clémence Pineau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexandre Pouzeaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Recalde | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fatou Thiam | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clément Vandecasteele | 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 Mérignac, above.
How Mérignac voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
26,823 votes cast for a list
27,275 of 49,546 registered voters in Mérignac voted.
301 blank and 151 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.
Mérignac spends €1,642 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
Mérignac owed €57.9M at the end of 2025, €743 per resident, lower than in 50% of compared French communes, equal to 63% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,642 | €468 | €743 | €57.9M |
| 2024 | €1,635 | €464 | €579 | €44.3M |
| 2023 | €1,564 | €394 | €372 | €27.8M |
| 2022 | €1,546 | €461 | €265 | €19.3M |
| 2021 | €1,435 | €390 | €105 | €7.5M |
| 2020 | €1,264 | €264 | €123 | €8.7M |
| 2019 | €1,204 | €224 | €70 | €5M |
| 2018 | €1,125 | €172 | €90 | €6.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Issy-les-Moulineaux, €225. Highest: Levallois-Perret, €3,685.
Have a say in Mérignac
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 Mérignac 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 Mérignac’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Mérignac?
Thierry Trijoulet, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Mérignac have?
The Mérignac municipal council has 49 members, the mayor and 18 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Mérignac?
ENSEMBLE, NOUS SOMMES MERIGNAC, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 51.8% of the votes; it holds 39 of the 49 seats.
What was the turnout in Mérignac?
55.1% 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 Mérignac?
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 Mérignac have?
€57.9M at the end of 2025, €743 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Mérignac part of?
Mérignac 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.