Photo: Olivier Cleynen · CC BY 4.0In Vailhauquès, turnout beat 98% of compared French communes
Laurent Sauvagnac has been mayor of Vailhauquès since March 20, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, VAILHAUQUES NATURELLEMENT won 18 of the 23 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.6% of the votes. Vailhauquès is part of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic Saint-Loup.
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 Vailhauquès’s town hall
Won in the first round
VAILHAUQUES NATURELLEMENT won 57.6% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 18 of the 23 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
71% of registered voters in Vailhauquès voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 98% 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
Vailhauquès owed €2.8M at the end of 2025, €1,042 per resident: higher than in 71% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 120% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Vailhauquès invested €263 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 23% of its spending: lower than in 75% 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.
- VAILHAUQUES NATURELLEMENT182 community seats
- Vailhauquès au Coeur50 community seats
As elected in the first round, March 15, 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 Vailhauquès 2 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic Saint-Loup (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: Laurent Sauvagnac · 23 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 20, 2026Laurent Sauvagnac
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilFrédéric BernardChristel SerranoAhmed GueddariLaurence MasséVincent AzemarLaura Fel
- 3Vailhauquès municipal council23 seats by listVAILHAUQUES NATURELLEMENT 18 · Vailhauquès au Coeur 5
- 4Communauté de communes du Grand Pic Saint-LoupVailhauquès holds 2 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 23 members of the Vailhauquès municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurent Sauvagnac | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Frédéric Bernard | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christel Serrano | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ahmed Gueddari | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurence Massé | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Vincent Azemar | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laura Fel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurent Sauvagnac | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Frédéric Bernard | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christel Serrano | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Ahmed Gueddari | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurence Massé | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Vincent Azemar | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laura Fel | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jennifer Adam | Conseiller municipal | March 20, 2026 |
| Gaétan Amarger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Bachino | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Kamel Bara | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Inès Ben Hadj Khalifa | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Jérôme Bourdin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Calmels | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles de Girard | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Julie Fesquet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Hemain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thérèse Maerten | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Kimy Menadi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Manon Rodeau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Saint-Pierre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ingrid Verdu | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nacera Zerrad | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 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 Vailhauquès, above.
How Vailhauquès voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
1,490 votes cast for a list
1,539 of 2,167 registered voters in Vailhauquès voted.
24 blank and 25 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.
Vailhauquès spends €1,133 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
Vailhauquès owed €2.8M at the end of 2025, €1,042 per resident, higher than in 71% 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 | €1,133 | €263 | €1,042 | €2.8M |
| 2024 | €1,702 | €841 | €1,150 | €3.1M |
| 2023 | €1,508 | €694 | €1,255 | €3.3M |
| 2022 | €1,168 | €382 | €770 | €2M |
| 2021 | €1,228 | €498 | €842 | €2.2M |
| 2020 | €1,374 | €730 | €504 | €1.3M |
| 2019 | €994 | €327 | €444 | €1.2M |
| 2018 | €1,065 | €339 | €480 | €1.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Huttenheim, €68. Highest: Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie, €3,827.
Have a say in Vailhauquès
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 Vailhauquès 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 Vailhauquès’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Vailhauquès?
Laurent Sauvagnac, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Vailhauquès have?
The Vailhauquès municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Vailhauquès?
VAILHAUQUES NATURELLEMENT, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.6% of the votes; it holds 18 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Vailhauquès?
71% 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 Vailhauquès?
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 Vailhauquès have?
€2.8M at the end of 2025, €1,042 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Vailhauquès part of?
Vailhauquès is part of the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic Saint-Loup, 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.