Saint-André carries more debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Joé Bedier has been mayor of Saint-André since March 28, 2026, elected by the 45 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, SAINT-ANDRE, HORIZON 2032 won 34 of the 45 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes. Saint-André is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Intercommunale de la Réunion Est (CIREST).
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 Saint-André’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 8 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, SAINT-ANDRE, HORIZON 2032 came first with 50.1% and took 34 of the 45 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
52.4% of registered voters in Saint-André voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 70% 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
Saint-André owed €93.8M at the end of 2025, €1,616 per resident: higher than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 115% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- SAINT-ANDRE, HORIZON 20323417 community seats
- LES SAINT ANDREENS D'ABORD115 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 Saint-André 22 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Intercommunale de la Réunion Est (CIREST) (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: Joé Bedier · 45 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 28, 2026Joé Bedier
- 2Deputy mayors13 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Marc PequinGilberte Rayepin MoutoussamyJean Michel JauzeEvelyne VoisinLaurent PapayaMarie Linda Virapin KicheninGilles NazeMigline Grondin+5 more
- 3Saint-André municipal council45 seats by listSAINT-ANDRE, HORIZON 2032 34 · LES SAINT ANDREENS D'ABORD 11
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Intercommunale de la Réunion Est (CIREST)Saint-André holds 22 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 45 members of the Saint-André municipal council
The mayor and 13 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joé Bedier | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Pequin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilberte Rayepin Moutoussamy | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Michel Jauze | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Evelyne Voisin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Papaya | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Linda Virapin Kichenin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Naze | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Migline Grondin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christian Gotte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Josette Sababady | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Constant | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jimmye Coupou | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Mazeau | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (45)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joé Bedier | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Pequin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilberte Rayepin Moutoussamy | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Michel Jauze | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Evelyne Voisin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Papaya | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie Linda Virapin Kichenin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Naze | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Migline Grondin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christian Gotte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Josette Sababady | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Constant | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jimmye Coupou | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Mazeau | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maryse Brigitte Alamele | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lindsay Joelle Appavoupoulle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Larissa Balbine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabrina Benoit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tatiana Boyer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mayline Brennus | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Juanita Caniguy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adélaïde Cerveaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Desire | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Grondin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Asmahane Issimaila Hamida | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Lariviere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Moutama Ramaye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roland Moutien | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Naud Carpanin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Parvedy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Poiny-Toplan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Rabot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Ramassamy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Ramin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Doly Ramsamy Epouse Paulcan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roger Robert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marine Talita Sitouze | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mickaël Soubaya | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexa Soupou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cindy Thermea | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Judex Thermea | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Serge Tolsy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Virapoulle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Virapoullé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jismy Voulamale | 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 Saint-André, above.
How Saint-André voted in March 2026
8 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
24,316 votes cast for a list
25,367 of 42,938 registered voters in Saint-André voted.
474 blank and 577 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
21,707 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
22,496 of 42,932 registered voters in Saint-André voted.
370 blank and 419 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.
Saint-André spends €1,758 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
Saint-André owed €93.8M at the end of 2025, €1,616 per resident, higher than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 115% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,758 | €348 | €1,616 | €93.8M |
| 2024 | €1,936 | €521 | €1,609 | €92.7M |
| 2023 | €2,243 | €921 | €1,839 | €105.5M |
| 2022 | €1,657 | €373 | €1,383 | €79.4M |
| 2021 | €1,440 | €228 | €1,392 | €79.6M |
| 2020 | €1,555 | €320 | €1,699 | €96.3M |
| 2019 | €1,775 | €605 | €1,671 | €93.7M |
| 2018 | €1,601 | €435 | €1,340 | €75.3M |
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: Cagnes-sur-Mer, €202. Highest: Antony, €2,652.
Have a say in Saint-André
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 Saint-André 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 Saint-André’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-André?
Joé Bedier, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-André have?
The Saint-André municipal council has 45 members, the mayor and 13 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-André?
SAINT-ANDRE, HORIZON 2032, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes; it holds 34 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-André?
52.4% 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 Saint-André?
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 Saint-André have?
€93.8M at the end of 2025, €1,616 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-André part of?
Saint-André is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Intercommunale de la Réunion Est (CIREST), 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.