Photo: Björn S. · CC BY-SA 3.0In Viry, turnout was lower than in 80% of compared French communes
Cédric Merlot has been mayor of Viry since March 27, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Viry 2026 won 21 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.6% of the votes. Viry is part of the Communauté de communes du Genevois.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Haute-Savoie and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Viry’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, Viry 2026 came first with 42.6% and took 21 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.1% of registered voters in Viry voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 80% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Haute-Savoie was 51.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- Viry 2026214 community seats
- VIRY EN ACTION51 community seat
- Pour Viry !30 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 Viry 5 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Genevois (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: Cédric Merlot · 29 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, 2026Cédric Merlot
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilPatrice PoirierSandrine MichalotChristophe BuironMartine BigandPierre Bernard
- 3Viry municipal council29 seats by listViry 2026 21 · VIRY EN ACTION 5 · Pour Viry ! 3
- 4Communauté de communes du GenevoisViry holds 5 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 Viry municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Cédric Merlot | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrice Poirier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Michalot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Buiron | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Bigand | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Bernard | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Cédric Merlot | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrice Poirier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Michalot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Buiron | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Bigand | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Bernard | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Barbier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gary Barthassat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Chevalier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Cousin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François de Viry | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elmas Dereli | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Loreleï Dupont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Escure | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adeline Fernando | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Gandy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabine Herrero | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Jacquemoud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yann Lachenal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Deborah Lassalle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Loffel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maud Nunes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoit Perreard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Porchet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Rodriguez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Sauze | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Secret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Villard | 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 Viry, above.
How Viry voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,530 votes cast for a list
1,558 of 3,075 registered voters in Viry voted.
14 blank and 14 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,484 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,510 of 3,073 registered voters in Viry voted.
22 blank and 4 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.
Viry spends €1,420 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
Viry owed €3.5M at the end of 2025, €614 per resident, lower than in 62% of compared French communes, equal to 54% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,420 | €290 | €614 | €3.5M |
| 2024 | €1,553 | €477 | €726 | €4.1M |
| 2023 | €1,239 | €217 | €846 | €4.8M |
| 2022 | €1,130 | €119 | €995 | €5.5M |
| 2021 | €1,086 | €126 | €1,052 | €5.7M |
| 2020 | €1,149 | €224 | €1,202 | €6.3M |
| 2019 | €1,098 | €178 | €1,325 | €6.9M |
| 2018 | €1,198 | €263 | €1,490 | €7.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 17th 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: Ludres, €32. Highest: Lannemezan, €3,356.
Have a say in Viry
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 Viry 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 Viry’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Viry?
Cédric Merlot, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Viry have?
The Viry municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Viry?
Viry 2026, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 42.6% of the votes; it holds 21 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Viry?
49.1% 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 Viry?
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 Viry have?
€3.5M at the end of 2025, €614 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Viry part of?
Viry is part of the Communauté de communes du Genevois, 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.