Photo: Pierre-Félix Vautrin · CC0Montpellier carries more debt per resident than 88% of compared communes
Michaël Delafosse has been mayor of Montpellier since March 28, 2026, elected by the 69 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, DEMAIN MONTPELLIER won 53 of the 69 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes. Montpellier is part of the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole.
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 Montpellier’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 13 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, DEMAIN MONTPELLIER came first with 50.1% and took 53 of the 69 seats; the other lists share the remaining 16. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.4% of registered voters in Montpellier voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 76% 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
Montpellier owed €468.5M at the end of 2025, €1,508 per resident: higher than in 88% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 143% 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.
- DEMAIN MONTPELLIER5339 community seats
- FAIRE MIEUX POUR MONTPELLIER86 community seats
- MONTPELLIER NOTRE FIERTÉ86 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 Montpellier 51 seats on the council of the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (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: Michaël Delafosse · 69 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, 2026Michaël Delafosse
- 2Deputy mayors26 adjoints, elected by the councilSébastien CoteMarie MassartChristophe BourdinTasnime AkbaralyLaurent NisonAgnès SauratManu ReynaudRadia Tikouk+18 more
- 3Montpellier municipal council69 seats by listDEMAIN MONTPELLIER 53 · FAIRE MIEUX POUR MONTPELLIER 8 · MONTPELLIER NOTRE FIERTÉ 8
- 4Montpellier Méditerranée MétropoleMontpellier holds 51 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 69 members of the Montpellier municipal council
The mayor and 26 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michaël Delafosse | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sébastien Cote | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Massart | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Bourdin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Tasnime Akbaraly | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Nison | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Saurat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Manu Reynaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Radia Tikouk | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Serge Guiseppin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Muriel Ressiguier | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphane Jouault | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Robin | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eddine Ariztegui | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Inbal Benayon | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Aslanian | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nelly Lacince | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Boris Bellanger | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emilie Cabello | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alban Zanchiello | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Delphine Esselin | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mustapha Laoukiri | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Annie Benezech | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Yvan Nosbé | 23ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Elodie Brun-Mandon | 24ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sophiane Mansouria | 25ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Adama Kanté | 26ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (69)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michaël Delafosse | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sébastien Cote | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Massart | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Bourdin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Tasnime Akbaraly | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Nison | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Saurat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Manu Reynaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Radia Tikouk | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Serge Guiseppin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Muriel Ressiguier | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphane Jouault | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Robin | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eddine Ariztegui | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Inbal Benayon | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Aslanian | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nelly Lacince | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Boris Bellanger | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emilie Cabello | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alban Zanchiello | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Delphine Esselin | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mustapha Laoukiri | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Annie Benezech | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Yvan Nosbé | 23ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Elodie Brun-Mandon | 24ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sophiane Mansouria | 25ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Adama Kanté | 26ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Lilit Aghajanyan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mohed Altrad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tal Anahory | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Arnaud-Buchard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Assaf | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marwan Baraka | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Barral | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatima Bellaredj | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Bertrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emilie Biondi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-France Boisbault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Calvo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guylain Clamour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Grégoire Delforge | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurély DI-DOMENICO - Barrat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fanny Dombre Coste | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alenka Doulain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Frêche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clara Gimenez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Gély | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clare Hart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Hernandez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Hillaire | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mylvia Houguet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Livia Jampy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Jannin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Salim Jawhari | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Lecomte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Markovic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julia Mignacca | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Miralles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kamel Moufid | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatma Nakib | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Nocca | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérémy Orzechowski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Oziol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nazim Sarica | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Naïma Sayad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rhany Slimane | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eliane Urtado | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Colas Valat | 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 Montpellier, above.
How Montpellier voted in March 2026
13 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
77,137 votes cast for a list
80,219 of 175,016 registered voters in Montpellier voted.
2,000 blank and 1,082 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
87,003 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
88,232 of 174,968 registered voters in Montpellier voted.
696 blank and 533 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.
Montpellier spends €1,598 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
Montpellier owed €468.5M at the end of 2025, €1,508 per resident, higher than in 88% of compared French communes, equal to 143% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,598 | €542 | €1,508 | €468.5M |
| 2024 | €1,678 | €654 | €1,339 | €409.3M |
| 2023 | €1,545 | €528 | €1,030 | €311.4M |
| 2022 | €1,360 | €389 | €818 | €244.4M |
| 2021 | €1,257 | €321 | €714 | €209.4M |
| 2020 | €1,203 | €300 | €727 | €209.7M |
| 2019 | €1,289 | €372 | €695 | €198.9M |
| 2018 | €1,208 | €302 | €647 | €182.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Montpellier
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 Montpellier 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 Montpellier’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Montpellier?
Michaël Delafosse, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Montpellier have?
The Montpellier municipal council has 69 members, the mayor and 26 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Montpellier?
DEMAIN MONTPELLIER, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes; it holds 53 of the 69 seats.
What was the turnout in Montpellier?
50.4% 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 Montpellier?
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 Montpellier have?
€468.5M at the end of 2025, €1,508 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Montpellier part of?
Montpellier is part of the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, 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.