Cahors carries more debt per resident than 96% of compared communes
Vivien Coste has been mayor of Cahors since March 23, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Au quotidien et pour demain won 28 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 59.5% of the votes. Cahors is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cahors.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Lot and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Cahors’s town hall
Won in the first round
Au quotidien et pour demain won 59.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 28 of the 35 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.9% of registered voters in Cahors voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 75% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Lot was 61.5%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Cahors owed €45.7M at the end of 2025, €2,197 per resident: higher than in 96% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 154% 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.
- Au quotidien et pour demain2819 community seats
- Cahors Espérance43 community seats
- Cahors En Commun32 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 Cahors 24 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cahors (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: Vivien Coste · 35 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, 2026Vivien Coste
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilAbel RachiAlexia BeheregarayDavid BlancoMireille CodetVincent BouillaguetKarine AlicotJohann VacandareFrançoise Faubert+1 more
- 3Cahors municipal council35 seats by listAu quotidien et pour demain 28 · Cahors Espérance 4 · Cahors En Commun 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Grand CahorsCahors holds 24 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 35 members of the Cahors municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Vivien Coste | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Abel Rachi | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Alexia Beheregaray | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| David Blanco | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Mireille Codet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Vincent Bouillaguet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Karine Alicot | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Johann Vacandare | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Françoise Faubert | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Serge Munte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Vivien Coste | Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Abel Rachi | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Alexia Beheregaray | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| David Blanco | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Mireille Codet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Vincent Bouillaguet | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Karine Alicot | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Johann Vacandare | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Françoise Faubert | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Serge Munte | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 23, 2026 |
| Théo Belaubre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dalida Bendadda | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lucien Blanc | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Bonnet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elsa Bougeard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Benoit Cabarrot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Caroff | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Coq | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Céline Daporta | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Decaestecker | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernard Delpech | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Desjardins | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fiona Ferrer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélanie Godere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ghyslaine Jacques | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sophie Kubler | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Lagarde | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stephanie Landes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hélène Leneveu-Riviere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Berangere Marguier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lionel Marsaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Marx | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thibaut Rouet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Francesco Testa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure | 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 Cahors, above.
How Cahors voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
6,869 votes cast for a list
7,284 of 14,299 registered voters in Cahors voted.
227 blank and 188 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.
Cahors spends €1,770 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
Cahors owed €45.7M at the end of 2025, €2,197 per resident, higher than in 96% of compared French communes, equal to 154% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,770 | €340 | €2,197 | €45.7M |
| 2024 | €1,809 | €436 | €2,139 | €45M |
| 2023 | €1,783 | €450 | €2,125 | €44.8M |
| 2022 | €1,596 | €349 | €2,068 | €43.2M |
| 2021 | €1,406 | €259 | €2,118 | €44.1M |
| 2020 | €1,410 | €337 | €2,163 | €45M |
| 2019 | €1,945 | €644 | €2,693 | €55.1M |
| 2018 | €1,653 | €377 | €2,641 | €53.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Villefontaine, €21. Highest: Albertville, €2,283.
Have a say in Cahors
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 Cahors 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 Cahors’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Cahors?
Vivien Coste, mayor since March 23, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Cahors have?
The Cahors municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Cahors?
Au quotidien et pour demain, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 59.5% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Cahors?
50.9% 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 Cahors?
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 Cahors have?
€45.7M at the end of 2025, €2,197 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Cahors part of?
Cahors is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cahors, 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.