Agde carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Aurélien Lopez Liguori has been mayor of Agde since March 27, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UN AVENIR POUR AGDE won 27 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 54.9% of the votes. Agde is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Hérault and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Agde’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 7 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, UN AVENIR POUR AGDE came first with 54.9% and took 27 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62.6% of registered voters in Agde voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 75% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Hérault was 63.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Agde owed €95.1M at the end of 2025, €3,166 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 120% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Agde invested €1,079 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 29% of its spending: higher than in 95% 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.
- UN AVENIR POUR AGDE2713 community seats
- 100% AGDE84 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 Agde 17 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée (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: Aurélien Lopez Liguori · 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 27, 2026Aurélien Lopez Liguori
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilViviane CanovaJean-Pascal RuviraCarole RaynaudPhilippe ArponLiliane SurjousJean-Marie RibesManon SimonnetLaurent Brault+4 more
- 3Agde municipal council35 seats by listUN AVENIR POUR AGDE 27 · 100% AGDE 8
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-MéditerranéeAgde holds 17 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 Agde municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Lopez Liguori | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Viviane Canova | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pascal Ruvira | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Carole Raynaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Arpon | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Liliane Surjous | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Ribes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Manon Simonnet | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Brault | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bourlois | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc Di Martino | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Quesney | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eric Oulieu | 12ème adjoint au Maire | April 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Lopez Liguori | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Viviane Canova | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pascal Ruvira | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Carole Raynaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Arpon | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Liliane Surjous | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Ribes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Manon Simonnet | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurent Brault | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bourlois | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc Di Martino | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Quesney | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eric Oulieu | 12ème adjoint au Maire | April 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Adrian | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Albano | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Amoyel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Josée Auge-Caumon | Conseiller municipal | April 21, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Battandier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gabrielle Blache | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Bourghelle | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Nadia Catanzano Meric | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Dreyer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Dumont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Escalier | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Julien Grasset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Grimaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Herbaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Houles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Maillot | Conseiller municipal | April 21, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Meunier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christianne Mothes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vince Nouguier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Rouviere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yohann Savalle | Conseiller municipal | April 13, 2026 |
| Nicolas Serra | 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 Agde, above.
How Agde voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
16,978 votes cast for a list
17,519 of 27,058 registered voters in Agde voted.
295 blank and 246 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
16,599 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
16,951 of 27,076 registered voters in Agde voted.
200 blank and 152 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.
Agde spends €3,719 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
Agde owed €95.1M at the end of 2025, €3,166 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 120% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €3,719 | €1,079 | €3,166 | €95.1M |
| 2024 | €3,289 | €829 | €3,046 | €89.9M |
| 2023 | €3,110 | €720 | €3,049 | €90.2M |
| 2022 | €3,001 | €812 | €3,033 | €91M |
| 2021 | €3,308 | €1,185 | €3,111 | €91.7M |
| 2020 | €2,815 | €695 | €3,212 | €93.2M |
| 2019 | €3,319 | €1,104 | €3,313 | €93.2M |
| 2018 | €3,311 | €1,075 | €3,535 | €96.8M |
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: Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, €88. Highest: Maubeuge, €3,481.
Have a say in Agde
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 Agde 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 Agde’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Agde?
Aurélien Lopez Liguori, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Agde have?
The Agde municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Agde?
UN AVENIR POUR AGDE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 54.9% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Agde?
62.6% 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 Agde?
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 Agde have?
€95.1M at the end of 2025, €3,166 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Agde part of?
Agde is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée, 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.