Photo: Alt0160 · CC BY-SA 3.0How is Vanves run?
Bernard Gauducheau has been mayor of Vanves since March 20, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Vanves en confiance won 27 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 54.5% of the votes. Vanves is part of the Métropole du Grand Paris.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Hauts-de-Seine and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- Vanves en confiance271 community seat
- Vanves Autrement80 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 Vanves 1 seat on the council of the Métropole du Grand Paris (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: Bernard Gauducheau · 35 councilors
Housing and planning strategy for Greater Paris, economic development, flood prevention and the low-emission zone. Waste and water sit with the territorial bodies (EPT) and the City of Paris.
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 20, 2026Bernard Gauducheau
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilSandrine BourgPascal VertanessianXavière MartinErwan MartinAnne-Laure MondonKevin CortesAnne-Caroline CahenXavier Lemaire+3 more
- 3Vanves municipal council35 seats by listVanves en confiance 27 · Vanves Autrement 8
- 4Métropole du Grand ParisVanves holds 1 seatCommunity 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 Vanves municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Gauducheau | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sandrine Bourg | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Pascal Vertanessian | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Xavière Martin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Erwan Martin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Mondon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Kevin Cortes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne-Caroline Cahen | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Xavier Lemaire | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Gazel | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rami Daoudi | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laetitia Malet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Gauducheau | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sandrine Bourg | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Pascal Vertanessian | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Xavière Martin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Erwan Martin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Mondon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Kevin Cortes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne-Caroline Cahen | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Xavier Lemaire | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Gazel | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Rami Daoudi | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laetitia Malet | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Boris Amoroz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gabriel Attal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Matthieu Borras | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexandre Brouard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amel Cadi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Chausse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique de Leonardis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Boris Douchin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Séverine Edou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sara Fahsi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Adrien Guillerm | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ury Israel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Abdelfattah Lakhlifi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Camille Lemarchand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jules Montestruc | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Tom Moïse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Nakache | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexia Pescreminoz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anna Agata Porebska | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Florence Ratier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Savi de Tové | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Sicart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cécile Soubelet | 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 Vanves, above.
How Vanves voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
11,127 votes cast for a list
11,501 of 19,009 registered voters in Vanves voted.
233 blank and 141 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.
Vanves spends €1,952 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
Vanves owed €24.6M at the end of 2025, €854 per resident, higher than in 58% of compared French communes, equal to 62% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,952 | €584 | €854 | €24.6M |
| 2024 | €1,756 | €374 | €948 | €26.8M |
| 2023 | €1,662 | €287 | €783 | €22.1M |
| 2022 | €1,943 | €623 | €673 | €18.9M |
| 2021 | €1,610 | €364 | €429 | €11.9M |
| 2020 | €1,385 | €216 | €421 | €11.8M |
| 2019 | €1,525 | €296 | €401 | €11.3M |
| 2018 | €1,410 | €192 | €465 | €13.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: Illkirch-Graffenstaden, €82. Highest: Maubeuge, €3,481.
Have a say in Vanves
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 Vanves 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 Vanves’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Vanves?
Bernard Gauducheau, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Vanves have?
The Vanves municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Vanves?
Vanves en confiance, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 54.5% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Vanves?
60.5% 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 Vanves?
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 Vanves have?
€24.6M at the end of 2025, €854 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Vanves part of?
Vanves is part of the Métropole du Grand Paris, 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.