In Lunel, the council took a second round
Paulette Gougeon has been mayor of Lunel since March 28, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MON PARTI C'EST LUNEL won 25 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 39.5% of the votes. Lunel is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Lunel Agglo.
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 Lunel’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, MON PARTI C'EST LUNEL came first with 39.5% and took 25 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 10. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
53.4% of registered voters in Lunel voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 66% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Hérault was 63.7%; 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.
- MON PARTI C'EST LUNEL2516 community seats
- LUNEL C'EST VOUS !64 community seats
- LUNEL AU COEUR43 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 Lunel 23 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Lunel Agglo (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: Paulette Gougeon · 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 28, 2026Paulette Gougeon
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilViviane BonfilsLaurent GrassetMarie PapaixRené HermabessièreSylvie ThomasPascal ChabertSonia MokaddemGilles Flutet+2 more
- 3Lunel municipal council35 seats by listMON PARTI C'EST LUNEL 25 · LUNEL C'EST VOUS ! 6 · LUNEL AU COEUR 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Lunel AggloLunel holds 23 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 Lunel municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Paulette Gougeon | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Viviane Bonfils | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Grasset | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Papaix | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| René Hermabessière | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Thomas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascal Chabert | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sonia Mokaddem | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Flutet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Corinne Grau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Patrick Cirou | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Paulette Gougeon | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Viviane Bonfils | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Grasset | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Papaix | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| René Hermabessière | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Thomas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascal Chabert | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sonia Mokaddem | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Flutet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Corinne Grau | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Patrick Cirou | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Autier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anthony Belin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Noureddine Beniattou | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Jean Charpentier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmeline d'Antona | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Dalle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Élodie Donnadieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dorothée Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Gautier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florent Gerber | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Souad Gimenez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yvan Goroneskoul | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lyliane Lacroix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Larcher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Lefebvre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Maniez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Monnerot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julia Plane | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Routhe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Ruiz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Severac | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Océane Sion | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Soccoro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Valentin | 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 Lunel, above.
How Lunel voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
9,984 votes cast for a list
10,278 of 19,101 registered voters in Lunel voted.
179 blank and 115 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,021 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
10,205 of 19,095 registered voters in Lunel voted.
98 blank and 86 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.
Lunel spends €1,753 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
Lunel owed €21.1M at the end of 2025, €789 per resident, higher than in 54% 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 | €1,753 | €483 | €789 | €21.1M |
| 2024 | €1,949 | €611 | €879 | €23.3M |
| 2023 | €1,699 | €501 | €1,469 | €39.1M |
| 2022 | €1,693 | €540 | €1,499 | €39.9M |
| 2021 | €1,399 | €320 | €1,321 | €35M |
| 2020 | €1,363 | €300 | €1,171 | €31M |
| 2019 | €1,488 | €381 | €1,160 | €30.5M |
| 2018 | €1,801 | €666 | €1,188 | €30.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 21st 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: Sèvremoine, €60. Highest: Biarritz, €2,321.
Have a say in Lunel
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 Lunel 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 Lunel’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lunel?
Paulette Gougeon, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lunel have?
The Lunel municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Lunel?
MON PARTI C'EST LUNEL, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 39.5% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Lunel?
53.4% 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 Lunel?
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 Lunel have?
€21.1M at the end of 2025, €789 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lunel part of?
Lunel is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Lunel Agglo, 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.