Photo: Renardo la vulpo · CC0Clermont-l'Hérault carries more debt per resident than 92% of compared communes
Gérard Bessiere has been mayor of Clermont-l'Hérault since March 27, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT ! won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes. Clermont-l'Hérault is part of the Communauté de communes du Clermontais.
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 Clermont-l'Hérault’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT ! came first with 50.7% and took 22 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Clermont-l'Hérault owed €16.1M at the end of 2025, €1,692 per resident: higher than in 92% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 147% 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.
- ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT !2210 community seats
- Ensemble Pour Réussir 202652 community seats
- DEMAIN CLERMONT21 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 Clermont-l'Hérault 13 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Clermontais (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: Gérard Bessiere · 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, 2026Gérard Bessiere
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Marie SabatierMichelle GuibalGeorges ElnecaveAnne Bernadou BoissièreGeorges BelartCorinne GonzalezJean-Luc BarralAgathe Khettab
- 3Clermont-l'Hérault municipal council29 seats by listALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT ! 22 · Ensemble Pour Réussir 2026 5 · DEMAIN CLERMONT 2
- 4Communauté de communes du ClermontaisClermont-l'Hérault holds 13 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 Clermont-l'Hérault municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Bessiere | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Sabatier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michelle Guibal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Elnecave | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Bernadou Boissière | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Belart | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Gonzalez | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Barral | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Khettab | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Bessiere | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Sabatier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michelle Guibal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Elnecave | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Bernadou Boissière | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Belart | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Gonzalez | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Barral | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Khettab | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claude Blaho-Poncé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Cinesi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rosemay Cremieux | Conseiller municipal | April 7, 2026 |
| Jean-François Faustin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Gros | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Louise Jaber | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Javourey | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Klein | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Laborie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Lalauze | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Minardi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Mouchoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Jacques Pinet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jules Poussard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Rouzier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Rugani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Odile Thiers | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cloé Vanzel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samy Zeitoun | 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 Clermont-l'Hérault, above.
How Clermont-l'Hérault voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
3,820 votes cast for a list
3,939 of 7,012 registered voters in Clermont-l'Hérault voted.
69 blank and 50 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
3,743 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,873 of 7,014 registered voters in Clermont-l'Hérault voted.
85 blank and 45 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.
Clermont-l'Hérault spends €1,493 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
Clermont-l'Hérault owed €16.1M at the end of 2025, €1,692 per resident, higher than in 92% of compared French communes, equal to 147% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,493 | €340 | €1,692 | €16.1M |
| 2024 | €1,926 | €787 | €1,799 | €17M |
| 2023 | €1,551 | €461 | €1,634 | €15.2M |
| 2022 | €1,708 | €712 | €1,578 | €14.5M |
| 2021 | €1,427 | €447 | €1,323 | €12.1M |
| 2020 | €1,113 | €173 | €1,284 | €11.6M |
| 2019 | €1,280 | €378 | €1,301 | €11.6M |
| 2018 | €1,300 | €386 | €1,314 | €11.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Molsheim, €0. Highest: Redon, €2,301.
Have a say in Clermont-l'Hérault
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 Clermont-l'Hérault 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 Clermont-l'Hérault’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Clermont-l'Hérault?
Gérard Bessiere, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Clermont-l'Hérault have?
The Clermont-l'Hérault municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Clermont-l'Hérault?
ALLEZ CLERMONT L'HERAULT !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Clermont-l'Hérault?
55.2% 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 Clermont-l'Hérault?
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 Clermont-l'Hérault have?
€16.1M at the end of 2025, €1,692 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Clermont-l'Hérault part of?
Clermont-l'Hérault is part of the Communauté de communes du Clermontais, 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.