How is Sorbiers run?
Olivier Villetelle has been mayor of Sorbiers since March 23, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AVEC VOUS POUR SORBIERS 2026 won 23 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 58.4% of the votes. Sorbiers 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.
- AVEC VOUS POUR SORBIERS 2026233 community seats
- Sorbiers 2660 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 Sorbiers 3 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: Olivier Villetelle · 29 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, 2026Olivier Villetelle
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilNadine SauraDominique BernatLudivine ViolotSylvain DuplaySéverine AllegraJérôme AllainFarida SefsafStéphane Despinasse
- 3Sorbiers municipal council29 seats by listAVEC VOUS POUR SORBIERS 2026 23 · Sorbiers 26 6
- 4Saint-Etienne MétropoleSorbiers holds 3 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 29 members of the Sorbiers municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Villetelle | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nadine Saura | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Dominique Bernat | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Ludivine Violot | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Sylvain Duplay | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Séverine Allegra | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Jérôme Allain | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Farida Sefsaf | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Stéphane Despinasse | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Villetelle | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Nadine Saura | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Dominique Bernat | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Ludivine Violot | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Sylvain Duplay | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Séverine Allegra | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Jérôme Allain | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Farida Sefsaf | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Stéphane Despinasse | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Delphine Emmanuelle Aurouze | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Bergerac | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marine Billard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Chérif Bouima | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Agathe Carrot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrice Chaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Karina Malgorzata Chaudier Tondos | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Couchot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marlène Di Piazza-Tallon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Fara | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mireille Gilbertas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Edmond Hube | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hélèna Danielle Géraldine Hubé | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Jean-Yves Jacob | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Baptiste Merley | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clara Mosnier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Viviane Marise Émilie Néel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Patracone | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gérard Rouchouse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Serge Simon | 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 Sorbiers, above.
How Sorbiers voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,477 votes cast for a list
3,572 of 6,092 registered voters in Sorbiers voted.
74 blank and 21 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.
Have a say in Sorbiers
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 Sorbiers 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 Sorbiers’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Sorbiers?
Olivier Villetelle, mayor since March 23, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Sorbiers have?
The Sorbiers municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Sorbiers?
AVEC VOUS POUR SORBIERS 2026, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 58.4% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Sorbiers?
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 Sorbiers?
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.
Which intercommunality is Sorbiers part of?
Sorbiers 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.