How is Riorges run?
Jean-Luc Chervin has been mayor of Riorges since March 23, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, RIORGES L'AVENIR ENSEMBLE won 26 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes. Riorges is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- RIORGES L'AVENIR ENSEMBLE266 community seats
- Riorges ma ville avec Bernard JACQUOLETTO72 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 Riorges 8 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais 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: Jean-Luc Chervin · 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 23, 2026Jean-Luc Chervin
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilIsabelle BerthelotEric MichaudKarima LefaureNabih NejjarVéronique MouillerJean-Luc ReynardNathalie Tissier MichaudDavid Grognet+1 more
- 3Riorges municipal council33 seats by listRIORGES L'AVENIR ENSEMBLE 26 · Riorges ma ville avec Bernard JACQUOLETTO 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Roannais AgglomérationRiorges holds 8 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 Riorges municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Luc Chervin | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Isabelle Berthelot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Eric Michaud | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Karima Lefaure | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nabih Nejjar | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Véronique Mouiller | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Reynard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nathalie Tissier Michaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| David Grognet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Brigitte Bonnefond | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Luc Chervin | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Isabelle Berthelot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Eric Michaud | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Karima Lefaure | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nabih Nejjar | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Véronique Mouiller | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Reynard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nathalie Tissier Michaud | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| David Grognet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Brigitte Bonnefond | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Jean-Loup Auboyer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Barret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bryan Brossard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Cellier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Daniel Corre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Veronique Dupré | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrice Gouy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Romain Graffigne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Céline Guidicelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernard Jacquoletto | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Chantal Lacour | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Macaudiere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Manet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bénédicte Paris | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Patin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Perey | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Andrée Riccetti | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Rollet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cédric Schünemann | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joëlle Veyre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Vial | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Zappa | 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 Riorges, above.
How Riorges voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,687 votes cast for a list
4,798 of 8,073 registered voters in Riorges voted.
58 blank and 53 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.
Riorges spends €1,265 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
Riorges owed €6.7M at the end of 2025, €596 per resident, lower than in 63% of compared French communes, equal to 63% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,265 | €314 | €596 | €6.7M |
| 2024 | €1,295 | €351 | €569 | €6.4M |
| 2023 | €1,292 | €395 | €517 | €5.8M |
| 2022 | €1,119 | €272 | €456 | €5.1M |
| 2021 | €1,092 | €328 | €406 | €4.5M |
| 2020 | €981 | €240 | €492 | €5.4M |
| 2019 | €1,046 | €253 | €480 | €5.3M |
| 2018 | €1,009 | €225 | €512 | €5.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 11th 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: Stiring-Wendel, €0. Highest: Porto-Vecchio, €7,311.
Have a say in Riorges
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 Riorges 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 Riorges’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Riorges?
Jean-Luc Chervin, mayor since March 23, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Riorges have?
The Riorges municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Riorges?
RIORGES L'AVENIR ENSEMBLE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.4% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Riorges?
59.4% 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 Riorges?
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 Riorges have?
€6.7M at the end of 2025, €596 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Riorges part of?
Riorges is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais 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.