Petite-Île invested more per resident in 2025 than 90% of compared communes
Serge Hoareau has been mayor of Petite-Île since March 21, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, PETITE-ILE, NOTRE FORCE COMMUNE won 30 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 79.4% of the votes. Petite-Île is part of the Communauté d'agglomération CIVIS (Communauté Intercommunale des Villes Solidaires).
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Réunion and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Petite-Île’s town hall
Won in the first round
PETITE-ILE, NOTRE FORCE COMMUNE won 79.4% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 30 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
65% of registered voters in Petite-Île voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 84% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Réunion was 61.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Petite-Île owed €16.4M at the end of 2025, €1,251 per resident: higher than in 80% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 91% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Petite-Île invested €867 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 39% of its spending: higher than in 90% 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.
- PETITE-ILE, NOTRE FORCE COMMUNE305 community seats
- VIVRE-ENSEMBLE, TRADITIONS ET PROGRÈS !20 community seats
- PETITE-ÎLE D'ABORD, NOUS SOMMES VOUS10 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 Petite-Île 5 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération CIVIS (Communauté Intercommunale des Villes Solidaires) (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: Serge Hoareau · 33 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 21, 2026Serge Hoareau
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilÉric LebonMimose SeverinNicolas EtheveClarisse Gennepy MetroGino LebonEmmanuelle MussardPascal SuzanneReine Claude Amyclas+1 more
- 3Petite-Île municipal council33 seats by listPETITE-ILE, NOTRE FORCE COMMUNE 30 · VIVRE-ENSEMBLE, TRADITIONS ET PROGRÈS ! 2 · PETITE-ÎLE D'ABORD, NOUS SOMMES VOUS 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération CIVIS (Communauté Intercommunale des Villes Solidaires)Petite-Île holds 5 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 33 members of the Petite-Île municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Serge Hoareau | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Éric Lebon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mimose Severin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nicolas Etheve | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Clarisse Gennepy Metro | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gino Lebon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Mussard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pascal Suzanne | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Reine Claude Amyclas | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Olivier Fort | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Serge Hoareau | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Éric Lebon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mimose Severin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Nicolas Etheve | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Clarisse Gennepy Metro | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gino Lebon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Mussard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pascal Suzanne | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Reine Claude Amyclas | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Olivier Fort | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne Gaëlle Antou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Didier Benard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Evelyne Boulevard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Yves Corre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Pierre Dohen | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Helene Etheve | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patricia Etheve Charnay | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Harold Fontaine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Vanessa Fontaine Sadousty | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Bernard Gonthier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Noël Grondin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Denis Hoarau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Guillaume Lauret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Lavergne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Natacha Lebon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annie Marimao | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lorraine Nativel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Payet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Richard Paüs | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne Constance Robert Payet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Magalie Severin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacky Sorres | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corinne Virama Ercama | 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 Petite-Île, above.
How Petite-Île voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
7,244 votes cast for a list
7,441 of 11,454 registered voters in Petite-Île voted.
78 blank and 119 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.
Petite-Île spends €2,235 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
Petite-Île owed €16.4M at the end of 2025, €1,251 per resident, higher than in 80% of compared French communes, equal to 91% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,235 | €867 | €1,251 | €16.4M |
| 2024 | €2,267 | €925 | €1,135 | €14.5M |
| 2023 | €2,528 | €1,214 | €1,262 | €15.8M |
| 2022 | €2,038 | €805 | €1,180 | €14.8M |
| 2021 | €1,867 | €717 | €1,300 | €16.2M |
| 2020 | €1,766 | €560 | €1,397 | €17.1M |
| 2019 | €1,785 | €552 | €1,184 | €14.6M |
| 2018 | €1,715 | €499 | €1,090 | €13.4M |
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: Freyming-Merlebach, €63. Highest: Val-de-Reuil, €2,834.
Have a say in Petite-Île
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 Petite-Île 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 Petite-Île’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Petite-Île?
Serge Hoareau, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Petite-Île have?
The Petite-Île municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Petite-Île?
PETITE-ILE, NOTRE FORCE COMMUNE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 79.4% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Petite-Île?
65% 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 Petite-Île?
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 Petite-Île have?
€16.4M at the end of 2025, €1,251 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Petite-Île part of?
Petite-Île is part of the Communauté d'agglomération CIVIS (Communauté Intercommunale des Villes Solidaires), 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.