How is Lorette run?
Gérard Tardy has been mayor of Lorette since March 30, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ALLIANCE POUR LORETTE won 21 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.7% of the votes. Lorette is part of the Saint-Etienne Métropole.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Loire and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- ALLIANCE POUR LORETTE212 community seats
- NOUVEL ELAN POUR LORETTE50 community seats
- Libres d'agir pour Lorette10 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 Lorette 2 seats on the council of the Saint-Etienne Métropole (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: Gérard Tardy · 27 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 30, 2026Gérard Tardy
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilDelphine BertomeuJean-Sébastien PayreJoëlle BonnardAdrien InsardiMarie-Claire FaucouitFrancesco LetoCéline BravoXavier Marmorat
- 3Lorette municipal council27 seats by listALLIANCE POUR LORETTE 21 · NOUVEL ELAN POUR LORETTE 5 · Libres d'agir pour Lorette 1
- 4Saint-Etienne MétropoleLorette holds 2 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 27 members of the Lorette municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Tardy | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Delphine Bertomeu | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jean-Sébastien Payre | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Joëlle Bonnard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Adrien Insardi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Marie-Claire Faucouit | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Francesco Leto | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Céline Bravo | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Xavier Marmorat | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
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| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gérard Tardy | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Delphine Bertomeu | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jean-Sébastien Payre | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Joëlle Bonnard | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Adrien Insardi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Marie-Claire Faucouit | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Francesco Leto | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Céline Bravo | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Xavier Marmorat | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Christèle Berthon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Bregain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Bregain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adrien Busquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre-Édouard Dervieux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roger Derycke | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rose Espenel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chantal Fayelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Fournel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Grange | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Greco | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Kergot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Lequeux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evelyne Oriol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lionnel Portallier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Raia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Samih | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Émilie Verguin | 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 Lorette, above.
How Lorette voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,695 votes cast for a list
1,720 of 3,166 registered voters in Lorette voted.
17 blank and 8 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,686 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,731 of 3,166 registered voters in Lorette voted.
30 blank and 15 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.
Lorette spends €1,538 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
Lorette owed €4.1M at the end of 2025, €835 per resident, higher than in 57% 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 | €1,538 | €523 | €835 | €4.1M |
| 2024 | €1,560 | €456 | €689 | €3.3M |
| 2023 | €1,358 | €307 | €554 | €2.6M |
| 2022 | €1,251 | €253 | €619 | €2.9M |
| 2021 | €1,323 | €430 | €526 | €2.5M |
| 2020 | €1,212 | €316 | €592 | €2.8M |
| 2019 | €1,245 | €316 | €654 | €3.1M |
| 2018 | €1,350 | €418 | €721 | €3.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Witry-lès-Reims, €100. Highest: Bitche, €1,653.
Have a say in Lorette
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 Lorette 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 Lorette’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lorette?
Gérard Tardy, mayor since March 30, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lorette have?
The Lorette municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Lorette?
ALLIANCE POUR LORETTE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.7% of the votes; it holds 21 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Lorette?
54.7% 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 Lorette?
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 Lorette have?
€4.1M at the end of 2025, €835 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lorette part of?
Lorette is part of the Saint-Etienne Métropole, 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.