Photo: Zairon · CC BY 4.0Briançon carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Arnaud Murgia has been mayor of Briançon since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, DEMAIN BRIANCON ! won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.4% of the votes. Briançon is part of the Communauté de communes du Briançonnais.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Hautes-Alpes and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Briançon’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, DEMAIN BRIANCON ! came first with 48.4% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
64% of registered voters in Briançon voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 81% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Hautes-Alpes was 66.2%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Briançon owed €41.6M at the end of 2025, €3,762 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 208% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Briançon invested €1,273 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 41% of its spending: higher than in 97% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- DEMAIN BRIANCON !2514 community seats
- BRIANCON TERRITOIRE VIVANT63 community seats
- BIEN VIVRE A BRIANCON21 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 Briançon 18 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Briançonnais (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: Arnaud Murgia · 33 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, 2026Arnaud Murgia
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilClaire BarneoudAndré MartinAgnès RossiJean-Marc ChiapponiMichèle SkripnikoffPatrick MichelMarie SoubraneHervé Boulais+1 more
- 3Briançon municipal council33 seats by listDEMAIN BRIANCON ! 25 · BRIANCON TERRITOIRE VIVANT 6 · BIEN VIVRE A BRIANCON 2
- 4Communauté de communes du BriançonnaisBriançon holds 18 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 Briançon municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Murgia | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claire Barneoud | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| André Martin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Rossi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Chiapponi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michèle Skripnikoff | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrick Michel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie Soubrane | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hervé Boulais | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maud Gade | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Murgia | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claire Barneoud | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| André Martin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Rossi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Chiapponi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michèle Skripnikoff | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrick Michel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie Soubrane | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hervé Boulais | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maud Gade | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lucie Biaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Brousse | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Julie Castrejon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florian Goracci | Conseiller municipal | March 26, 2026 |
| Alexis Lalanne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Le Coz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ancelot Lecanu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurore Marchand | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Luc Marchello | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| René Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Capucine Mounal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Etienne Musq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Nibourel-Carrara | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Osti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Madeleine Pereira-Meyer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Regnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Roman | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dhouha Saihi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Schwarz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Simond | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Tisserand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Virat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryse Xausa-Francois | 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 Briançon, above.
How Briançon voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,910 votes cast for a list
6,053 of 9,195 registered voters in Briançon voted.
85 blank and 58 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,707 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,881 of 9,192 registered voters in Briançon voted.
100 blank and 74 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.
Briançon spends €3,079 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
Briançon owed €41.6M at the end of 2025, €3,762 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 208% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €3,079 | €1,273 | €3,762 | €41.6M |
| 2024 | €2,962 | €1,079 | €3,981 | €43.3M |
| 2023 | €2,528 | €828 | €3,948 | €43.8M |
| 2022 | €2,144 | €690 | €3,826 | €44.6M |
| 2021 | €1,892 | €410 | €4,014 | €45.8M |
| 2020 | €1,967 | €546 | €4,937 | €59M |
| 2019 | €2,162 | €711 | €5,007 | €61.4M |
| 2018 | €1,921 | €550 | €5,092 | €64.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Plan-de-Cuques, €14. Highest: Porto-Vecchio, €7,311.
Have a say in Briançon
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 Briançon 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 Briançon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Briançon?
Arnaud Murgia, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Briançon have?
The Briançon municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Briançon?
DEMAIN BRIANCON !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.4% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Briançon?
64% 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 Briançon?
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 Briançon have?
€41.6M at the end of 2025, €3,762 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Briançon part of?
Briançon is part of the Communauté de communes du Briançonnais, 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.