In Mende, turnout beat 89% of compared French communes
Patrice Saint-Léger has been mayor of Mende since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau Souffle won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.5% of the votes. Mende is part of the Communauté de communes Cœur de Lozère.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Lozère and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Mende’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, Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau Souffle came first with 52.5% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.5% of registered voters in Mende voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 89% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Lozère was 66.9%; 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.
- Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau Souffle2611 community seats
- ENSEMBLE POUR MENDE63 community seats
- A GAUCHE TOUTES ET TOUS10 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 Mende 14 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Cœur de Lozère (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: Patrice Saint-Léger · 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 27, 2026Patrice Saint-Léger
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilGinette BrunelMarc SchwanderCatherine BlondJean-François BressonEmmanuelle SoulierThierry VignoboulLaurine ForchiniSébastien Durand+1 more
- 3Mende municipal council33 seats by listChoisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau Souffle 26 · ENSEMBLE POUR MENDE 6 · A GAUCHE TOUTES ET TOUS 1
- 4Communauté de communes Cœur de LozèreMende holds 14 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 Mende municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Saint-Léger | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ginette Brunel | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc Schwander | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Blond | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-François Bresson | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Soulier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Vignoboul | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurine Forchini | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sébastien Durand | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Valérie Pas | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Saint-Léger | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ginette Brunel | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc Schwander | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Blond | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-François Bresson | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Soulier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Vignoboul | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurine Forchini | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sébastien Durand | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Valérie Pas | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Françoise Amarger-Brajon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Berenguel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Bergounhon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Boulard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sofian Bouremel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Chaptal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélie Gerbal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Gerbal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Ilpide | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Lacas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Maurin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elizabeth Minet-Treneule | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Monteiro Quinta | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Ouzelet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hermelen Peris | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lola Richer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Robin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aïcha Saloul | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Savajols | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mariangela Siotto | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Suau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fernando Tavares | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Torres | 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 Mende, above.
How Mende voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,450 votes cast for a list
5,612 of 7,983 registered voters in Mende voted.
102 blank and 60 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,125 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,309 of 7,984 registered voters in Mende voted.
98 blank and 86 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 Mende
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 Mende 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 Mende’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Mende?
Patrice Saint-Léger, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Mende have?
The Mende municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Mende?
Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau Souffle, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.5% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Mende?
66.5% 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 Mende?
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 Mende part of?
Mende is part of the Communauté de communes Cœur de Lozère, 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.