In Prades-le-Lez, the council took a second round
Florence Brau has been mayor of Prades-le-Lez since March 28, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, PRADES-LE-LEZ UNIE ET SOLIDAIRE won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 47.8% of the votes. Prades-le-Lez 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 Prades-le-Lez’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, PRADES-LE-LEZ UNIE ET SOLIDAIRE came first with 47.8% and took 22 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62.2% of registered voters in Prades-le-Lez voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 73% 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
Prades-le-Lez owed €7M at the end of 2025, €1,103 per resident: higher than in 74% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 112% 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.
- PRADES-LE-LEZ UNIE ET SOLIDAIRE221 community seat
- CITOYENS DE PRADES-LE-LEZ50 community seats
- POUR LES PRADÉENS AU QUOTIDIEN20 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 Prades-le-Lez 1 seat 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: Florence Brau · 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 28, 2026Florence Brau
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilBertrand PlezJoëlle CampagneEric MoscardiZahra HassaniSébastien GrangierCatherine SauveurChristophe Nicolau-BergeretCamylle Pernelle
- 3Prades-le-Lez municipal council29 seats by listPRADES-LE-LEZ UNIE ET SOLIDAIRE 22 · CITOYENS DE PRADES-LE-LEZ 5 · POUR LES PRADÉENS AU QUOTIDIEN 2
- 4Montpellier Méditerranée MétropolePrades-le-Lez 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 29 members of the Prades-le-Lez municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florence Brau | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bertrand Plez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Joëlle Campagne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Moscardi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Zahra Hassani | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sébastien Grangier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Sauveur | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Nicolau-Bergeret | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Camylle Pernelle | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florence Brau | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bertrand Plez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Joëlle Campagne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Moscardi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Zahra Hassani | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sébastien Grangier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Sauveur | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Nicolau-Bergeret | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Camylle Pernelle | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aurélie Assalit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hugues Barthes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evelina Cordero | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Crespon | Conseiller municipal | June 19, 2026 |
| Aïcha Diop | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Domergue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Estelle Donadei | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rachid El Moudden | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rachid Khenfouf | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Lejars | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cléo Leveque | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Susanna Malmström | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Mendim-Mathieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Meric | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Meunier-Polge | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Poblador | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raymond Poulenas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacky Pratlong | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Sete | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Zurbach | 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 Prades-le-Lez, above.
How Prades-le-Lez voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,990 votes cast for a list
3,089 of 4,881 registered voters in Prades-le-Lez voted.
57 blank and 42 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,918 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,037 of 4,881 registered voters in Prades-le-Lez voted.
74 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.
Prades-le-Lez spends €1,497 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
Prades-le-Lez owed €7M at the end of 2025, €1,103 per resident, higher than in 74% of compared French communes, equal to 112% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,497 | €509 | €1,103 | €7M |
| 2024 | €1,396 | €436 | €833 | €5.2M |
| 2023 | €1,150 | €216 | €603 | €3.7M |
| 2022 | €1,163 | €281 | €682 | €4.1M |
| 2021 | €986 | €166 | €614 | €3.5M |
| 2020 | €881 | €123 | €687 | €3.8M |
| 2019 | €870 | €110 | €656 | €3.6M |
| 2018 | €916 | €149 | €659 | €3.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 13th 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: Menucourt, €46. Highest: Behren-lès-Forbach, €4,127.
Have a say in Prades-le-Lez
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 Prades-le-Lez 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 Prades-le-Lez’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Prades-le-Lez?
Florence Brau, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Prades-le-Lez have?
The Prades-le-Lez municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Prades-le-Lez?
PRADES-LE-LEZ UNIE ET SOLIDAIRE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 47.8% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Prades-le-Lez?
62.2% 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 Prades-le-Lez?
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 Prades-le-Lez have?
€7M at the end of 2025, €1,103 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Prades-le-Lez part of?
Prades-le-Lez 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.