Macouria carries less debt per resident than 93% of compared communes
Gilles Adelson has been mayor of Macouria since March 21, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MACOURIA 2026 LA POURSUITE DE L'ENGAGEMENT won 27 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 60.5% of the votes. Macouria is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre Littoral.
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.
What stands out about Macouria’s town hall
Won in the first round
MACOURIA 2026 LA POURSUITE DE L'ENGAGEMENT won 60.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 4 lists stood. It took 27 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
43.3% of registered voters in Macouria voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 92% of compared French communes (France median 57.4%). 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Macouria owed €3.2M at the end of 2025, €170 per resident: lower than in 93% 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.
- MACOURIA 2026 LA POURSUITE DE L'ENGAGEMENT276 community seats
- OSONS UN NOUVEAU CAP A MACOURIA41 community seat
- ENSEMBLE ECRIVONS UNE NOUVELLE PAGE10 community seats
- UNE NOUVELLE VOIE POUR MACOURIA10 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 Macouria 7 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre Littoral (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: Gilles Adelson · 33 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 21, 2026Gilles Adelson
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilMonique AzerJean-Yves ThiverSandrine PayetClaude LemkiJosiane DupreJean-Marie CaremeCorinne SigerPatrick Tien Kong Tai+1 more
- 3Macouria municipal council33 seats by listMACOURIA 2026 LA POURSUITE DE L'ENGAGEMENT 27 · OSONS UN NOUVEAU CAP A MACOURIA 4 · ENSEMBLE ECRIVONS UNE NOUVELLE PAGE 1 · UNE NOUVELLE VOIE POUR MACOURIA 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Centre LittoralMacouria holds 7 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 33 members of the Macouria municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilles Adelson | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Monique Azer | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Thiver | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sandrine Payet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Claude Lemki | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Josiane Dupre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Careme | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Corinne Siger | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrick Tien Kong Tai | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Shirley Jean-Charles | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilles Adelson | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Monique Azer | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Thiver | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sandrine Payet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Claude Lemki | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Josiane Dupre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Careme | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Corinne Siger | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrick Tien Kong Tai | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Shirley Jean-Charles | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrick Adelson | Conseiller municipal | March 21, 2026 |
| Soebriena Amoida | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marcel Bafau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Monique Blerald | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Brachet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Steven Caroupanapoulle | Conseiller municipal | March 21, 2026 |
| Anccy Clet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bianca de Sonneville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Darling Dufort | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Tously Fortune Montina | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rina Letard Chouro | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Guy Marchand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Suzanne Mazoe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Josue Moge | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ismael Nemor | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David O'Reilly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Erwin Octavie | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Paka | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pauline Poleon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Prince | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Gabrielle Suzel'Homme | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eliodore Torvic | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claudette Tyndal | 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 Macouria, above.
How Macouria voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,348 votes cast for a list
3,537 of 8,163 registered voters in Macouria voted.
97 blank and 92 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.
Macouria spends €1,778 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
Macouria owed €3.2M at the end of 2025, €170 per resident, lower than in 93% 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 | €1,778 | €543 | €170 | €3.2M |
| 2024 | €1,738 | €440 | €203 | €3.9M |
| 2023 | €1,382 | €327 | €234 | €4.5M |
| 2022 | €1,403 | €307 | €312 | €5.1M |
| 2021 | €1,456 | €441 | €356 | €5.6M |
| 2020 | €1,301 | €327 | €434 | €6.2M |
| 2019 | €1,516 | €488 | €526 | €6.8M |
| 2018 | €1,688 | €652 | €398 | €4.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Villefontaine, €21. Highest: Albertville, €2,283.
Have a say in Macouria
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 Macouria 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 Macouria’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Macouria?
Gilles Adelson, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Macouria have?
The Macouria municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Macouria?
MACOURIA 2026 LA POURSUITE DE L'ENGAGEMENT, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 60.5% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Macouria?
43.3% 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 Macouria?
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 Macouria have?
€3.2M at the end of 2025, €170 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Macouria part of?
Macouria is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre Littoral, 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.