Montbrison elected its council in the first round
Christophe Bazile has been mayor of Montbrison since March 20, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE won 29 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 74% of the votes. Montbrison is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Loire Forez Agglomération.
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.
What stands out about Montbrison’s town hall
Won in the first round
CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE won 74% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 29 of the 33 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 ↓
A big year for investment
Montbrison invested €650 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 37% of its spending: higher than in 79% 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.
- CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE2912 community seats
- MONTBRISON EN COMMUN42 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 Montbrison 14 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Loire Forez Agglomération (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: Christophe Bazile · 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 20, 2026Christophe Bazile
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilGérard VernetCindy GiardinaGuillaume LombardinCécile MarrietteLuc VericelArlette SurgeyNicolas BoninAnne Giroudon+1 more
- 3Montbrison municipal council33 seats by listCONTINUONS ENSEMBLE 29 · MONTBRISON EN COMMUN 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Loire Forez AgglomérationMontbrison holds 14 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 Montbrison municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Bazile | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Vernet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Cindy Giardina | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guillaume Lombardin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Cécile Marriette | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Luc Vericel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Arlette Surgey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nicolas Bonin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne Giroudon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patrice Romeuf | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Bazile | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gérard Vernet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Cindy Giardina | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guillaume Lombardin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Cécile Marriette | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Luc Vericel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Arlette Surgey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nicolas Bonin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Anne Giroudon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patrice Romeuf | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Boris Arduy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Valérie Arnaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christiane Bayet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Victor Blanchet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martial Chaumarat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| John Courtemanche | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilbert David | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amélie de Almeida | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mireille de La Cellery | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Delgado | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Doublet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Duchez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Démariaux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hugo Frery | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mickaël Gault | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Justine Gerphagnon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corinne Jacquemont | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jordan Letellier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jocelyne Palle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Peyer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Estelle Roux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Tranchant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annabel Turnel | 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 Montbrison, above.
How Montbrison voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
5,870 votes cast for a list
6,161 of 10,755 registered voters in Montbrison voted.
197 blank and 94 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.
Montbrison spends €1,769 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
Montbrison owed €13.5M at the end of 2025, €810 per resident, higher than in 55% of compared French communes, equal to 72% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,769 | €650 | €810 | €13.5M |
| 2024 | €1,617 | €548 | €909 | €15.1M |
| 2023 | €1,444 | €444 | €986 | €16.3M |
| 2022 | €1,506 | €586 | €812 | €13.4M |
| 2021 | €1,382 | €498 | €884 | €14.4M |
| 2020 | €1,568 | €640 | €638 | €10.4M |
| 2019 | €1,412 | €555 | €451 | €7.3M |
| 2018 | €1,325 | €467 | €463 | €7.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 19th 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: Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, €288. Highest: Mennecy, €1,732.
Have a say in Montbrison
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 Montbrison 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 Montbrison’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Montbrison?
Christophe Bazile, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Montbrison have?
The Montbrison municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Montbrison?
CONTINUONS ENSEMBLE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 74% of the votes; it holds 29 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Montbrison?
57.3% 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 Montbrison?
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 Montbrison have?
€13.5M at the end of 2025, €810 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Montbrison part of?
Montbrison is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Loire Forez Agglomération, 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.