Photo: This picture belongs to Xavier Caré . · CC BY-SA 4.0How is La Verpillière run?
Emmanuel Damato has been mayor of La Verpillière since March 27, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Agir avec vous pour demain won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.4% of the votes. La Verpillière is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI).
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Isère and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- Agir avec vous pour demain223 community seats
- LA VERPILLIERE, CREONS ENSEMBLE51 community seat
- TOUT POUR LA VERPILLIERE20 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 La Verpillière 4 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI) (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: Emmanuel Damato · 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, 2026Emmanuel Damato
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilAnaïs CrusotSébastien BlondinPascale BidardJérôme BertAudrey JanvierBenjamin BourgeyPauline LacourGrégory Simon
- 3La Verpillière municipal council29 seats by listAgir avec vous pour demain 22 · LA VERPILLIERE, CREONS ENSEMBLE 5 · TOUT POUR LA VERPILLIERE 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI)La Verpillière holds 4 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 La Verpillière municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Damato | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anaïs Crusot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sébastien Blondin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Bidard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérôme Bert | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Audrey Janvier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Bourgey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pauline Lacour | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Grégory Simon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Damato | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anaïs Crusot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sébastien Blondin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Bidard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérôme Bert | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Audrey Janvier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Bourgey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pauline Lacour | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Grégory Simon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Samira Achouri | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurianne Aguilera | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryline Arantzabe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Bernardi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Bourcier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Bretaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chantal Brochier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Decroix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Fabre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Guillot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Louis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Macle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Maiffret Epouse Makala | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Marti | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Marie-Josephe Prudhomme | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Ripert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathéo Tardy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guy Vassal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Veillet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yusuf Yaman | 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 La Verpillière, above.
How La Verpillière voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,744 votes cast for a list
2,783 of 4,551 registered voters in La Verpillière voted.
13 blank and 26 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,710 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,742 of 4,550 registered voters in La Verpillière voted.
21 blank and 11 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.
La Verpillière spends €1,400 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
La Verpillière owed €4.7M at the end of 2025, €612 per resident, lower than in 62% 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 | €1,400 | €411 | €612 | €4.7M |
| 2024 | €1,345 | €330 | €677 | €5.1M |
| 2023 | €1,223 | €231 | €748 | €5.6M |
| 2022 | €1,318 | €474 | €811 | €6M |
| 2021 | €1,202 | €427 | €871 | €6.4M |
| 2020 | €984 | €221 | €952 | €7M |
| 2019 | €1,043 | €283 | €1,035 | €7.5M |
| 2018 | €1,521 | €750 | €1,126 | €8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 14th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Saint-Denis-en-Val, €46. Highest: Publier, €3,162.
Have a say in La Verpillière
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 La Verpillière 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 La Verpillière’s town hall
Who is the mayor of La Verpillière?
Emmanuel Damato, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does La Verpillière have?
The La Verpillière municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in La Verpillière?
Agir avec vous pour demain, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.4% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in La Verpillière?
60.3% 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 La Verpillière?
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 La Verpillière have?
€4.7M at the end of 2025, €612 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is La Verpillière part of?
La Verpillière is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI), 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.