In Wassy, the council took a second round
Gilbert Utkala has been mayor of Wassy since March 27, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, OEUVRER ENSEMBLE POUR WASSY PONT VARIN won 18 of the 23 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57.9% of the votes. Wassy is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Saint-Dizier, Der et Vallées.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Haute-Marne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Wassy’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, OEUVRER ENSEMBLE POUR WASSY PONT VARIN came first with 57.9% and took 18 of the 23 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
63.8% of registered voters in Wassy voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 80% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Haute-Marne was 51%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Wassy owed €1.4M at the end of 2025, €499 per resident: lower than in 71% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 66% 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.
- OEUVRER ENSEMBLE POUR WASSY PONT VARIN182 community seats
- ECOUTER ET AGIR ENSEMBLE WASSY PONT VARIN51 community seat
As elected in the second round, March 22, 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 Wassy 3 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Saint-Dizier, Der et Vallées (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: Gilbert Utkala · 23 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 27, 2026Gilbert Utkala
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Claude HumbertNadia OrtillonLaurent JeolAurélie VautrinSerge DuboisHélène Jeangeorge
- 3Wassy municipal council23 seats by listOEUVRER ENSEMBLE POUR WASSY PONT VARIN 18 · ECOUTER ET AGIR ENSEMBLE WASSY PONT VARIN 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Grand Saint-Dizier, Der et ValléesWassy holds 3 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 23 members of the Wassy municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Utkala | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Humbert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadia Ortillon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Jeol | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Vautrin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Dubois | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hélène Jeangeorge | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Utkala | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Humbert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadia Ortillon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Jeol | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Vautrin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Dubois | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hélène Jeangeorge | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Bigot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Driat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Etienne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cindy Fery | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Gillot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Gle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Hanse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Hernandez-Feldeisen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Lambert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Leroy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Leseur | Conseiller municipal | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Pfister | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Rennesson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stephane Robert | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Royer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Vuillaume | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 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 Wassy, above.
How Wassy voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,111 votes cast for a list
1,191 of 1,888 registered voters in Wassy voted.
22 blank and 58 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,179 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,203 of 1,887 registered voters in Wassy voted.
14 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.
Wassy spends €1,274 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
Wassy owed €1.4M at the end of 2025, €499 per resident, lower than in 71% of compared French communes, equal to 66% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,274 | €522 | €499 | €1.4M |
| 2024 | €1,153 | €364 | €541 | €1.6M |
| 2023 | €890 | €174 | €616 | €1.8M |
| 2022 | €916 | €243 | €590 | €1.7M |
| 2021 | €877 | €302 | €776 | €2.3M |
| 2020 | €804 | €255 | €836 | €2.5M |
| 2019 | €1,068 | €464 | €864 | €2.6M |
| 2018 | €800 | €117 | €945 | €2.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 19th 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: Orgon, €66. Highest: Collioure, €2,352.
Have a say in Wassy
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 Wassy 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 Wassy’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Wassy?
Gilbert Utkala, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Wassy have?
The Wassy municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Wassy?
OEUVRER ENSEMBLE POUR WASSY PONT VARIN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57.9% of the votes; it holds 18 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Wassy?
63.8% 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 Wassy?
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 Wassy have?
€1.4M at the end of 2025, €499 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Wassy part of?
Wassy is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Saint-Dizier, Der et Vallées, 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.