Camopi carries less debt per resident than 94% of compared communes
Laurent Yawalou has been mayor of Camopi since March 22, 2026, elected by the 19 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, WAYAPUKUWAN won 16 of the 19 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 64.8% of the votes. Camopi is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Est Guyanais.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the France median is the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade); none in this département is compared. Camopi has 2,189 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Camopi’s town hall
Won in the first round
WAYAPUKUWAN won 64.8% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 16 of the 19 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Camopi owed €327K at the end of 2025, €150 per resident: lower than in 94% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 14% 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.
- WAYAPUKUWAN166 community seats
- REPRENONS LE DESTIN EN MAIN20 community seats
- LE CHANGEMENT C'EST MAINTENANT10 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 Camopi 6 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de l'Est Guyanais (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
3 authorities share the work
In French Guiana one territorial authority does the work of both the département and the région.
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: Laurent Yawalou · 19 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Everything the département and the région do elsewhere: social aid, collèges, lycées, roads, regional transport and the economy.
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 22, 2026Laurent Yawalou
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilMathilde TatouRodin RenaudFlorence KouyouliJimmy Jean-BaptisteMaria Monpera
- 3Camopi municipal council19 seats by listWAYAPUKUWAN 16 · REPRENONS LE DESTIN EN MAIN 2 · LE CHANGEMENT C'EST MAINTENANT 1
- 4Communauté de communes de l'Est GuyanaisCamopi holds 6 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 19 members of the Camopi municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurent Yawalou | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Tatou | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Rodin Renaud | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Kouyouli | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Jean-Baptiste | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maria Monpera | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (19)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurent Yawalou | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Tatou | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Rodin Renaud | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Kouyouli | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Jean-Baptiste | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maria Monpera | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Chanel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Chaumier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Irene Cyrille | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Arsène Marie Kawilili | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Delphine Lapriere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Naja Hubertine Mane | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Miso | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| René Monerville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bertrand Monpera | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maria Petitpied | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivia Pilolo | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Serge Walacou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mina Zidoc | 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 Camopi, above.
How Camopi voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
704 votes cast for a list
714 of 1,227 registered voters in Camopi voted.
0 blank and 10 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.
Camopi spends €1,438 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
Camopi owed €327K at the end of 2025, €150 per resident, lower than in 94% of compared French communes, equal to 14% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,438 | €350 | €150 | €327K |
| 2024 | €1,127 | €181 | €180 | €387K |
| 2023 | €1,595 | €503 | €233 | €446K |
| 2022 | €2,160 | €864 | €267 | €504K |
| 2021 | €2,741 | €1,464 | €303 | €563K |
| 2020 | €1,693 | €590 | €371 | €678K |
| 2019 | €1,356 | €244 | €375 | €678K |
| 2018 | €1,385 | €367 | €410 | €735K |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Camopi
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 Camopi 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 Camopi’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Camopi?
Laurent Yawalou, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Camopi have?
The Camopi municipal council has 19 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Camopi?
WAYAPUKUWAN, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 64.8% of the votes; it holds 16 of the 19 seats.
What was the turnout in Camopi?
58.2% 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 Camopi?
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 Camopi have?
€327K at the end of 2025, €150 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Camopi part of?
Camopi is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Est Guyanais, 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.