Photo: JessydeVilly · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Benoît elected its council in the first round
Patrice Selly has been mayor of Saint-Benoît since March 21, 2026, elected by the 38 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, BÂTIR SAINT-BENOÎT ANSANM won 35 of the 39 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.2% of the votes. Saint-Benoît 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-Benoît’s town hall
Won in the first round
BÂTIR SAINT-BENOÎT ANSANM won 65.2% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 8 lists stood. It took 35 of the 39 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 4. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Saint-Benoît owed €20.5M at the end of 2025, €541 per resident: lower than in 68% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 33% 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.
- BÂTIR SAINT-BENOÎT ANSANM3514 community seats
- RECONSTRUIRE SAINT-BENOIT AVEC JEAN-HUGUES RATENON31 community seat
- RASSEMBLEMENT BENEDICTIN10 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 Saint-Benoît 15 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: Patrice Selly · 38 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, 2026Patrice Selly
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilRidwane IssaValentine SerranoAugustin CazalAnne Chane-Kane-Bone TavelFrançois CatanSylvie PayetPatrice EllamaOdile Damour+1 more
- 3Saint-Benoît municipal council39 seats by listBÂTIR SAINT-BENOÎT ANSANM 35 · RECONSTRUIRE SAINT-BENOIT AVEC JEAN-HUGUES RATENON 3 · RASSEMBLEMENT BENEDICTIN 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Intercommunale de la Réunion Est (CIREST)Saint-Benoît holds 15 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 38 members of the Saint-Benoît municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Selly | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ridwane Issa | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valentine Serrano | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Augustin Cazal | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne Chane-Kane-Bone Tavel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Catan | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sylvie Payet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrice Ellama | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Odile Damour | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Xavier Mandrin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (38)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Selly | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ridwane Issa | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valentine Serrano | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Augustin Cazal | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Anne Chane-Kane-Bone Tavel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François Catan | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sylvie Payet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrice Ellama | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Odile Damour | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Xavier Mandrin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Cindy Ambroise | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Akmal Amode-Adame | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jordane Boyer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clara Cadet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rolande Cazal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Clain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Willy Cochard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Caroline de Fondaumiere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| André Foudrain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christelle Hoareau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yves Jacques-Antoine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Matthieu K Bidy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Khoon-Yam | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emilie La Caria | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Lebon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Claude Mauve | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stephane Mitride | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emilie Mussard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Prebe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sabrina Ramin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Robert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sarah Salah-Aly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Samal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marina Sitaya | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie May Tescher | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anrifadjati Toilibou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jeremy Vidot-Bondal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Vital | 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 Saint-Benoît, above.
How Saint-Benoît voted in March 2026
8 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
16,828 votes cast for a list
17,373 of 31,200 registered voters in Saint-Benoît voted.
247 blank and 298 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-Benoît spends €1,934 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-Benoît owed €20.5M at the end of 2025, €541 per resident, lower than in 68% of compared French communes, equal to 33% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,934 | €306 | €541 | €20.5M |
| 2024 | €1,877 | €308 | €651 | €24.3M |
| 2023 | €1,726 | €196 | €744 | €27.7M |
| 2022 | €1,629 | €176 | €847 | €31.6M |
| 2021 | €1,489 | €67 | €1,150 | €43.2M |
| 2020 | €1,829 | €77 | €1,233 | €46.9M |
| 2019 | €1,730 | €188 | €1,313 | €50.5M |
| 2018 | €1,625 | €259 | €1,377 | €52.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Marcq-en-Barœul, €0. Highest: Chartres, €4,713.
Have a say in Saint-Benoît
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-Benoît 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-Benoît’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Benoît?
Patrice Selly, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Benoît have?
The Saint-Benoît municipal council has 38 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Benoît?
BÂTIR SAINT-BENOÎT ANSANM, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.2% of the votes; it holds 35 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Benoît?
55.7% 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-Benoît?
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-Benoît have?
€20.5M at the end of 2025, €541 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Benoît part of?
Saint-Benoît 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.