Lavaldens invested more per resident in 2025 than 99% of compared communes
Gérard Felix has been mayor of Lavaldens since June 26, 2026, elected by the 10 members of the municipal council. Lavaldens is part of the Communauté de communes de la Matheysine.
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. Lavaldens has 165 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Lavaldens’s town hall
More debt per resident than most
Lavaldens owed €179K at the end of 2025, €1,091 per resident: higher than in 74% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 90% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Lavaldens invested €2,402 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 67% of its spending: higher than in 99% 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.
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: Gérard Felix · 10 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.
The 10 members of the Lavaldens municipal council
The mayor and 1 deputy mayor first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Felix | Maire | June 26, 2026 |
| Olivier Lavarte | 1er adjoint au Maire | June 26, 2026 |
Show the full council (10)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Felix | Maire | June 26, 2026 |
| Olivier Lavarte | 1er adjoint au Maire | June 26, 2026 |
| Caroline Broussous | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Jean-Didier Cartier | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Natacha Fraux | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Florence Jullien Chastel | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Mélissa Makni | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Alain Mathieu | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Pierre Poncet | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 2026 |
| Olivia Todeschini | Conseiller municipal | June 14, 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.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
Lavaldens spends €3,609 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
Lavaldens owed €179K at the end of 2025, €1,091 per resident, higher than in 74% of compared French communes, equal to 90% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €3,609 | €2,402 | €1,091 | €179K |
| 2024 | €1,972 | €833 | €1,195 | €192K |
| 2023 | €1,478 | €298 | €526 | €81K |
| 2022 | €1,735 | €622 | €591 | €91K |
| 2021 | €2,886 | €1,961 | €651 | €100K |
| 2020 | €1,265 | €27 | €710 | €109K |
| 2019 | €925 | €6 | €743 | €119K |
| 2018 | €1,751 | €644 | €788 | €131K |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Lavaldens
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 Lavaldens 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 Lavaldens’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lavaldens?
Gérard Felix, mayor since June 26, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lavaldens have?
The Lavaldens municipal council has 10 members, the mayor and 1 deputy mayors included.
When are the next municipal elections in Lavaldens?
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 Lavaldens have?
€179K at the end of 2025, €1,091 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lavaldens part of?
Lavaldens is part of the Communauté de communes de la Matheysine, 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.