Photo: Alvaro · CC BY-SA 3.0Briare carries less debt per resident than 96% of compared communes
Gabriel Denizot has been mayor of Briare since March 28, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, POUR BRIARE, UNE VOIE NOUVELLE ! won 22 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 62.7% of the votes. Briare is part of the Communauté de communes Berry Loire Puisaye.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Loiret and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Briare’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, POUR BRIARE, UNE VOIE NOUVELLE ! came first with 62.7% and took 22 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Briare owed €490K at the end of 2025, €96 per resident: lower than in 96% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 8% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- POUR BRIARE, UNE VOIE NOUVELLE !229 community seats
- ENSEMBLE POUR BRIARE !52 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 Briare 11 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Berry Loire Puisaye (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: Gabriel Denizot · 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 28, 2026Gabriel Denizot
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilAndré DorsoFabien FaisySylvie GuillaumeThomas PoidvinJacqueline DelehayeGérard SemenceDominique Pirog
- 3Briare municipal council27 seats by listPOUR BRIARE, UNE VOIE NOUVELLE ! 22 · ENSEMBLE POUR BRIARE ! 5
- 4Communauté de communes Berry Loire PuisayeBriare holds 11 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 Briare municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gabriel Denizot | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| André Dorso | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Faisy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Guillaume | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Thomas Poidvin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Delehaye | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gérard Semence | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Pirog | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gabriel Denizot | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| André Dorso | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Faisy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvie Guillaume | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Thomas Poidvin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Delehaye | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gérard Semence | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Pirog | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Claude Ackenine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Blanchet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evelyne Bourgoin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Delehaye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Gardinier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Girault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Lecomte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Lhoste | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Manzano | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pauline Moloney | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Paris | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicole Pinon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Rougnon-Glasson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Salin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Seguret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edwige Signoret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Tourte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucie Vassoille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christiane Velay | 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 Briare, above.
How Briare voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,262 votes cast for a list
2,316 of 3,885 registered voters in Briare voted.
29 blank and 25 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,278 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,324 of 3,885 registered voters in Briare voted.
30 blank and 16 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.
Briare spends €1,510 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
Briare owed €490K at the end of 2025, €96 per resident, lower than in 96% of compared French communes, equal to 8% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,510 | €375 | €96 | €490K |
| 2024 | €1,502 | €419 | €115 | €598K |
| 2023 | €1,153 | €141 | €133 | €703K |
| 2022 | €1,228 | €151 | €209 | €1.1M |
| 2021 | €1,173 | €160 | €230 | €1.2M |
| 2020 | €1,103 | €99 | €264 | €1.4M |
| 2019 | €1,521 | €471 | €233 | €1.3M |
| 2018 | €1,193 | €165 | €166 | €942K |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd 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: Uchaud, €95. Highest: L'Île-d'Yeu, €6,002.
Have a say in Briare
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 Briare 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 Briare’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Briare?
Gabriel Denizot, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Briare have?
The Briare municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Briare?
POUR BRIARE, UNE VOIE NOUVELLE !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 62.7% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Briare?
59.8% 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 Briare?
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 Briare have?
€490K at the end of 2025, €96 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Briare part of?
Briare is part of the Communauté de communes Berry Loire Puisaye, 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.