Photo: Regulator · CC BY-SA 3.0In Saint-Leu, the council took a second round
Karim Juhoor has been mayor of Saint-Leu since March 29, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UNION SAINT-LEUSIENNE won 30 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.9% of the votes. Saint-Leu is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Territoire de la Côte Ouest (TCO).
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-Leu’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, UNION SAINT-LEUSIENNE came first with 50.9% and took 30 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
62% of registered voters in Saint-Leu voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 72% 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-Leu owed €44.1M at the end of 2025, €1,223 per resident: higher than in 79% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 87% 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.
- UNION SAINT-LEUSIENNE308 community seats
- ENSEMBLE, REDONNONS VIE A SAINT LEU92 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-Leu 10 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Territoire de la Côte Ouest (TCO) (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: Karim Juhoor · 39 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 29, 2026Karim Juhoor
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilVanessa Judikaelle BalencourtDidier FosLucette PalasGabriel AubertGeorgette Ramidge BaneLionel LebeauAnne-Gaëlle HoareauChristophe Esteve+3 more
- 3Saint-Leu municipal council39 seats by listUNION SAINT-LEUSIENNE 30 · ENSEMBLE, REDONNONS VIE A SAINT LEU 9
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Territoire de la Côte Ouest (TCO)Saint-Leu holds 10 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 39 members of the Saint-Leu municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Karim Juhoor | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vanessa Judikaelle Balencourt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Didier Fos | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lucette Palas | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Gabriel Aubert | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Georgette Ramidge Bane | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lionel Lebeau | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Gaëlle Hoareau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christophe Esteve | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Océane Mélissa Riviere | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Patouma | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Eléna Marie-Claire Maxwel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Karim Juhoor | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vanessa Judikaelle Balencourt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Didier Fos | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lucette Palas | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Gabriel Aubert | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Georgette Ramidge Bane | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lionel Lebeau | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Gaëlle Hoareau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christophe Esteve | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Océane Mélissa Riviere | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Patouma | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Eléna Marie-Claire Maxwel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Apaya | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Armougom | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Paul Aron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Marie Nathalie Babylon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Bluker | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Buron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Carpy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacky Codarbox | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lilian Comare | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Dalleau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Juliane Dany | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Euphrasie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Noëlle Ferard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Antonio Honorine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrice Lebon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean François Maillot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ananda Mardaye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cédric Nativel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carla Oddoz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Robert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Augustin Silotia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fernande Thenor | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Trajean | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Lyne Turpin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Huguette Vidot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manon Vincelot | 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-Leu, above.
How Saint-Leu voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
19,646 votes cast for a list
20,214 of 30,715 registered voters in Saint-Leu voted.
260 blank and 308 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
18,500 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
19,045 of 30,700 registered voters in Saint-Leu voted.
273 blank and 272 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-Leu spends €1,701 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-Leu owed €44.1M at the end of 2025, €1,223 per resident, higher than in 79% of compared French communes, equal to 87% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,701 | €304 | €1,223 | €44.1M |
| 2024 | €1,683 | €342 | €1,206 | €42.6M |
| 2023 | €1,541 | €326 | €1,221 | €43M |
| 2022 | €1,295 | €142 | €1,243 | €43.6M |
| 2021 | €1,320 | €199 | €1,650 | €57.2M |
| 2020 | €1,522 | €407 | €1,732 | €59M |
| 2019 | €1,454 | €338 | €1,761 | €60.2M |
| 2018 | €1,368 | €269 | €1,780 | €60.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th 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: Tremblay-en-France, €230. Highest: Chartres, €4,713.
Have a say in Saint-Leu
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-Leu 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-Leu’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Leu?
Karim Juhoor, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Leu have?
The Saint-Leu municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Leu?
UNION SAINT-LEUSIENNE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.9% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Leu?
62% 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-Leu?
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-Leu have?
€44.1M at the end of 2025, €1,223 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Leu part of?
Saint-Leu is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Territoire de la Côte Ouest (TCO), 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.