Photo: Jérôme METTETAL · CC BY-SA 3.0Héricourt carries less debt per resident than 86% of compared communes
Gilles Lazar has been mayor of Héricourt since March 28, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, HERICOURT EN COMMUN won 25 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.5% of the votes. Héricourt is part of the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Héricourt.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Haute-Saône and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Héricourt’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, HERICOURT EN COMMUN came first with 41.5% and took 25 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 10. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Héricourt owed €3.2M at the end of 2025, €296 per resident: lower than in 86% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 31% 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.
- HERICOURT EN COMMUN2517 community seats
- HERICOURT : UNE VILLE ACTIVE, SURE ET UNIE74 community seats
- Agir ensemble pour Héricourt32 community seats
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 Héricourt 23 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Héricourt (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: Gilles Lazar · 35 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 28, 2026Gilles Lazar
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilQuentin HafekostSylvie DavalPierre UhlenMaryse PortazFlorent GuepinMarianne EcoffetDominique BernigaudNadège Bournier+2 more
- 3Héricourt municipal council35 seats by listHERICOURT EN COMMUN 25 · HERICOURT : UNE VILLE ACTIVE, SURE ET UNIE 7 · Agir ensemble pour Héricourt 3
- 4Communauté de communes du Pays d'HéricourtHéricourt holds 23 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 35 members of the Héricourt municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Jeanningros | Maire délégué | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Lazar | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Julien Riat | Maire délégué | March 28, 2026 |
| Quentin Hafekost | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Daval | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Uhlen | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maryse Portaz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florent Guepin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marianne Ecoffet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Bernigaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nadège Bournier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Nicolet | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Djamilla Derdaka | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Jeanningros | Maire délégué | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Lazar | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Julien Riat | Maire délégué | March 28, 2026 |
| Quentin Hafekost | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Daval | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Uhlen | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maryse Portaz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florent Guepin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marianne Ecoffet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Bernigaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nadège Bournier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Nicolet | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Djamilla Derdaka | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Guillaume Aubel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Natacha Bichet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Bonnot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fernand Burkhalter | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yvette Chappuy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Chenal | Conseiller municipal | July 21, 2026 |
| Catherine Fortes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Genin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaël Hennequin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Jardot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michelle Manet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Inès Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Mathie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Paleo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Parcellier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Paris | Conseiller municipal | July 7, 2026 |
| Martine Pequignot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Picard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Renard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Sutter | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Vareschard | Conseiller municipal | April 9, 2026 |
| Mohamed Zemzami | 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 Héricourt, above.
How Héricourt voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,733 votes cast for a list
4,828 of 7,737 registered voters in Héricourt voted.
40 blank and 55 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,411 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,509 of 7,737 registered voters in Héricourt voted.
52 blank and 46 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.
Héricourt spends €1,478 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
Héricourt owed €3.2M at the end of 2025, €296 per resident, lower than in 86% of compared French communes, equal to 31% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,478 | €523 | €296 | €3.2M |
| 2024 | €1,255 | €319 | €327 | €3.5M |
| 2023 | €1,236 | €416 | €358 | €3.9M |
| 2022 | €1,240 | €424 | €269 | €2.9M |
| 2021 | €1,140 | €385 | €298 | €3.3M |
| 2020 | €1,168 | €407 | €340 | €3.7M |
| 2019 | €1,118 | €389 | €380 | €4.1M |
| 2018 | €1,016 | €310 | €436 | €4.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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: Tinqueux, €0. Highest: Argelès-sur-Mer, €3,715.
Have a say in Héricourt
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 Héricourt 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 Héricourt’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Héricourt?
Gilles Lazar, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Héricourt have?
The Héricourt municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Héricourt?
HERICOURT EN COMMUN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.5% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Héricourt?
58.3% 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 Héricourt?
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 Héricourt have?
€3.2M at the end of 2025, €296 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Héricourt part of?
Héricourt is part of the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Héricourt, 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.