Photo: dronepicr · CC BY 2.0In Corte, turnout beat 99% of compared French communes
Xavier Poli has been mayor of Corte since March 21, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Corte demain-Corti dumane won 25 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 68.3% of the votes. Corte is part of the Communauté de communes du Centre Corse.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Haute-Corse and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Corte’s town hall
Won in the first round
Corte demain-Corti dumane won 68.3% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 25 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 4. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
72.8% of registered voters in Corte voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Haute-Corse was 63.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Corte owed €1.8M at the end of 2025, €232 per resident: lower than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 20% 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.
- Corte demain-Corti dumane2514 community seats
- A FORZA DI L'AVVENE42 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 Corte 16 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Centre Corse (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
3 authorities share the work
In Corsica one authority, the Collectivité de Corse, does the work of the départements 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: Xavier Poli · 29 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, 2026Xavier Poli
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilPhilippe SindaliNathalie PulicaniJean-François OrsatelliAngèle OstiensiJean-Paul AlbertiniMarie AlbertiniJoseph OrsatelliValérie Cerutti
- 3Corte municipal council29 seats by listCorte demain-Corti dumane 25 · A FORZA DI L'AVVENE 4
- 4Communauté de communes du Centre CorseCorte holds 16 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 29 members of the Corte municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Xavier Poli | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Sindali | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nathalie Pulicani | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-François Orsatelli | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Angèle Ostiensi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Albertini | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Albertini | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Joseph Orsatelli | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Cerutti | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Xavier Poli | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Philippe Sindali | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nathalie Pulicani | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-François Orsatelli | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Angèle Ostiensi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Albertini | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie Albertini | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Joseph Orsatelli | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Cerutti | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Martine Barriele | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Grégory Bellini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc-Antoine Campana | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thomas Campana | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christiane Franceschini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antea Gallet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Agnès Nathalie Gambini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Ghionga | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| José Goncalves de Faria | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Livia Guidicelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabien Luciani | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michelle Luciani | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-José Malleroni | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Maroselli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marylène Menozzi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ange Nicolini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Blandine Françoise Ruggeri | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joseph Sabiani | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Petr'Antone Tomasi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Françoise Zuccarelli | 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 Corte, above.
How Corte voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
2,542 votes cast for a list
2,661 of 3,653 registered voters in Corte voted.
48 blank and 71 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.
Corte spends €1,714 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
Corte owed €1.8M at the end of 2025, €232 per resident, lower than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 20% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,714 | €538 | €232 | €1.8M |
| 2024 | €1,664 | €530 | €252 | €2M |
| 2023 | €1,630 | €486 | €272 | €2.1M |
| 2022 | €1,780 | €540 | €224 | €1.7M |
| 2021 | €1,675 | €595 | €240 | €1.8M |
| 2020 | €1,518 | €492 | €256 | €1.9M |
| 2019 | €1,325 | €268 | €266 | €2M |
| 2018 | €1,443 | €342 | €333 | €2.5M |
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: Saint-Denis-en-Val, €46. Highest: Publier, €3,162.
Have a say in Corte
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 Corte 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 Corte’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Corte?
Xavier Poli, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Corte have?
The Corte municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Corte?
Corte demain-Corti dumane, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 68.3% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Corte?
72.8% 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 Corte?
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 Corte have?
€1.8M at the end of 2025, €232 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Corte part of?
Corte is part of the Communauté de communes du Centre Corse, 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.