Photo: Wolfgang Bauer · Public domainIn Blain, the council took a second round
Thomas Jouan has been mayor of Blain since March 28, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Blain Initiatives Citoyennes won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.4% of the votes. Blain is part of the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain Communauté.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Loire-Atlantique and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Blain’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Blain Initiatives Citoyennes came first with 46.4% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Little investment
Blain invested €255 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 22% of its spending: lower than in 76% 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.
- Blain Initiatives Citoyennes2510 community seats
- BLAIN NOUVELLE ENERGIE73 community seats
- BLAIN ECOUTER ET AGIR10 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 Blain 13 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain 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: Thomas Jouan · 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 28, 2026Thomas Jouan
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilJacques MartinRita SchladtSimon LesouefAurélie LaurentJean-Pierre HamonSylvie PoupartDomnique Le GallDanielle Niaudet+1 more
- 3Blain municipal council33 seats by listBlain Initiatives Citoyennes 25 · BLAIN NOUVELLE ENERGIE 7 · BLAIN ECOUTER ET AGIR 1
- 4Communauté de communes Pays de Blain CommunautéBlain holds 13 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 Blain municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jouan | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Martin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Rita Schladt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Simon Lesouef | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aurélie Laurent | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Hamon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Poupart | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Domnique Le Gall | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Danielle Niaudet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Sorin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jouan | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Martin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Rita Schladt | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Simon Lesouef | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aurélie Laurent | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Hamon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Poupart | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Domnique Le Gall | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Danielle Niaudet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Sorin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Bagaglia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Baudouin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Baptiste Bernard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Bommé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeanne Briand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Séverine Cailleaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Caillon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laura Calamia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claude Chevallier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Filmotte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Fraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Timothée Frydman | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphaël Guillon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Joulain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Katia Lambin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Legras | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Malary | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérémy Malary | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| James Moussu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoit Muller | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre SANSOUCY (LESIMPLE) | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matthieu Prual | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Samuelle Verger | 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 Blain, above.
How Blain voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,490 votes cast for a list
4,599 of 7,682 registered voters in Blain voted.
109 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,298 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,502 of 7,682 registered voters in Blain voted.
204 blank and 0 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.
Blain spends €1,162 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
Blain owed €7.8M at the end of 2025, €741 per resident, lower than in 51% of compared French communes, equal to 82% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,162 | €255 | €741 | €7.8M |
| 2024 | €1,248 | €346 | €838 | €8.7M |
| 2023 | €1,339 | €461 | €783 | €8M |
| 2022 | €1,198 | €350 | €677 | €6.9M |
| 2021 | €1,011 | €197 | €604 | €6.1M |
| 2020 | €958 | €170 | €703 | €7M |
| 2019 | €1,000 | €193 | €811 | €8M |
| 2018 | €899 | €125 | €920 | €9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: Villers-Cotterêts, €0. Highest: Eybens, €1,806.
Have a say in Blain
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 Blain 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 Blain’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Blain?
Thomas Jouan, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Blain have?
The Blain municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Blain?
Blain Initiatives Citoyennes, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.4% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Blain?
58.6% 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 Blain?
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 Blain have?
€7.8M at the end of 2025, €741 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Blain part of?
Blain is part of the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain 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.