In Saint-Chamond, turnout was lower than in 87% of compared French communes
Axel Dugua has been mayor of Saint-Chamond since March 27, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AVEC VOUS, POUR SAINT-CHAMOND ! won 28 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.2% of the votes. Saint-Chamond 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.
What stands out about Saint-Chamond’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, AVEC VOUS, POUR SAINT-CHAMOND ! came first with 43.2% and took 28 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
46.2% of registered voters in Saint-Chamond voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 87% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Loire was 53.5%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- AVEC VOUS, POUR SAINT-CHAMOND !286 community seats
- AGIR POUR LES SAINT-CHAMONAIS41 community seat
- DU BON SENS POUR SAINT-CHAMOND41 community seat
- Saint-Chamond verte et solidaire pour une ville apaisée et vivante30 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-Chamond 8 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: Axel Dugua · 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 27, 2026Axel Dugua
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilRégis CadegrosAndonella FlechetGilles GrecoSandrine FrançonBenoit FabreCatherine ChapardBruno ChangeatAbla Cipriani+4 more
- 3Saint-Chamond municipal council39 seats by listAVEC VOUS, POUR SAINT-CHAMOND ! 28 · AGIR POUR LES SAINT-CHAMONAIS 4 · DU BON SENS POUR SAINT-CHAMOND 4 · Saint-Chamond verte et solidaire pour une ville apaisée et vivante 3
- 4Saint-Etienne MétropoleSaint-Chamond 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 39 members of the Saint-Chamond municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Dugua | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Cadegros | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Andonella Flechet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Greco | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Françon | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benoit Fabre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Chapard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bruno Changeat | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Abla Cipriani | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jerome Julve | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michèle Frediere | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Victor Pereira | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Flo Bersot-Dermetrossian | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Axel Dugua | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régis Cadegros | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Andonella Flechet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Greco | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Françon | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benoit Fabre | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Chapard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bruno Changeat | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Abla Cipriani | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jerome Julve | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michèle Frediere | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Victor Pereira | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Flo Bersot-Dermetrossian | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Alamercery | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daryne Belkorchia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphael Bernou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samuel Boughzala | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ayse Calyaka | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Champalle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Luc Chevallier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Degraix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre-Mary Deshayes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Desorme | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Giraudo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marlene Kalakun | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Estelle Larca | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Laval | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Jean Minnaert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Moiroud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Parrin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Quoy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Rebaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Rivat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Djamila Saidani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Erick Schaeffer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Surply | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Vanelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Viallatte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Vialon | 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-Chamond, above.
How Saint-Chamond voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
10,764 votes cast for a list
10,977 of 23,979 registered voters in Saint-Chamond voted.
213 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,834 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,069 of 23,975 registered voters in Saint-Chamond voted.
235 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.
Saint-Chamond spends €1,633 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-Chamond owed €30.4M at the end of 2025, €847 per resident, higher than in 57% of compared French communes, equal to 67% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,633 | €364 | €847 | €30.4M |
| 2024 | €1,552 | €279 | €778 | €27.6M |
| 2023 | €1,552 | €309 | €798 | €28.5M |
| 2022 | €1,610 | €382 | €681 | €24M |
| 2021 | €1,541 | €396 | €411 | €14.6M |
| 2020 | €1,354 | €254 | €315 | €11.2M |
| 2019 | €1,428 | €308 | €364 | €13.1M |
| 2018 | €1,344 | €233 | €270 | €9.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Houilles, €314. Highest: Chartres, €4,713.
Have a say in Saint-Chamond
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-Chamond 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-Chamond’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Chamond?
Axel Dugua, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Chamond have?
The Saint-Chamond municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Chamond?
AVEC VOUS, POUR SAINT-CHAMOND !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.2% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Chamond?
46.2% 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-Chamond?
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-Chamond have?
€30.4M at the end of 2025, €847 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Chamond part of?
Saint-Chamond 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.