Only one list stood in Roche
Bernard Cochard has been mayor of Roche since March 20, 2026, elected by the 19 members of the municipal council. A single list stood in March 2026, Roche, une vision commune, and took all 19 seats. Roche is part of the Communauté de communes Collines Isère Nord Communauté.
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. Roche has 2,196 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Roche’s town hall
A single list
Only one list stood in Roche on March 15, 2026: Roche, une vision commune. It took all 19 seats; with no rival list, voters could only vote for it, cast a blank ballot or stay at home. 2026 elections ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.5% of registered voters in Roche voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 73% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Isère was 54.9%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- Roche, une vision commune193 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 Roche 3 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Collines Isère Nord Communauté (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: Bernard Cochard · 19 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, 2026Bernard Cochard
- 2Deputy mayors5 adjoints, elected by the councilVéronique ChardonMarcel NicolierCatherine PilloixMichel BougarelSophie Kowalski
- 3Roche municipal council19 seats by listRoche, une vision commune 19
- 4Communauté de communes Collines Isère Nord CommunautéRoche holds 3 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 19 members of the Roche municipal council
The mayor and 5 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Cochard | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Véronique Chardon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marcel Nicolier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Catherine Pilloix | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Michel Bougarel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sophie Kowalski | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (19)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Cochard | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Véronique Chardon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marcel Nicolier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Catherine Pilloix | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Michel Bougarel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sophie Kowalski | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Sarah Andrade | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Antouard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maria Bonzi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexandre Cochard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Diaz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernard Guillarme | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Pontal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Léa Revellin-Pialet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lionel Thevenon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aurélie Vernay | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mathias Vivier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Zins | 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 Roche, above.
How Roche voted in March 2026
A single list stood.
820 votes cast for a list
937 of 1,820 registered voters in Roche voted.
52 blank and 65 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.
Roche spends €1,287 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
Roche owed €2M at the end of 2025, €903 per resident, higher than in 62% of compared French communes, equal to 124% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,287 | €556 | €903 | €2M |
| 2024 | €1,255 | €455 | €1,012 | €2.2M |
| 2023 | €1,264 | €594 | €1,092 | €2.4M |
| 2022 | €1,177 | €468 | €693 | €1.5M |
| 2021 | €1,085 | €428 | €551 | €1.2M |
| 2020 | €731 | €161 | €639 | €1.4M |
| 2019 | €880 | €299 | €759 | €1.6M |
| 2018 | €1,013 | €341 | €873 | €1.7M |
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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Roche
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 Roche 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 Roche’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Roche?
Bernard Cochard, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Roche have?
The Roche municipal council has 19 members, the mayor and 5 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Roche?
Only one list stood: Roche, une vision commune, which took all 19 seats.
What was the turnout in Roche?
51.5% 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 Roche?
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 Roche have?
€2M at the end of 2025, €903 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Roche part of?
Roche is part of the Communauté de communes Collines Isère Nord Communauté, 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.