In Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, turnout beat 98% of compared French communes
Christophe Gache has been mayor of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher since March 28, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Pour l'Avenir de Saint-Chély won 20 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.3% of the votes. Saint-Chély-d'Apcher is part of the Communauté de communes des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-Aubrac.
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 Saint-Chély-d'Apcher’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Pour l'Avenir de Saint-Chély came first with 44.3% and took 20 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
71.8% of registered voters in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 98% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Lozère was 66.9%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Saint-Chély-d'Apcher owed €6.1M at the end of 2025, €1,331 per resident: higher than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 97% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Saint-Chély-d'Apcher invested €887 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 39% of its spending: higher than in 91% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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 l'Avenir de Saint-Chély2010 community seats
- Avançons unis pour Saint-Chely53 community seats
- Choisissez Hugon pour batir l'avenir de St Chély d'Apcher21 community seat
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-Chély-d'Apcher 14 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-Aubrac (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: Christophe Gache · 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, 2026Christophe Gache
- 2Deputy mayors4 adjoints, elected by the councilChristophe BuffiereCécile BoulleJean BurdinMarine Vigier Seyt
- 3Saint-Chély-d'Apcher municipal council27 seats by listPour l'Avenir de Saint-Chély 20 · Avançons unis pour Saint-Chely 5 · Choisissez Hugon pour batir l'avenir de St Chély d'Apcher 2
- 4Communauté de communes des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-AubracSaint-Chély-d'Apcher 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 27 members of the Saint-Chély-d'Apcher municipal council
The mayor and 4 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Gache | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Buffiere | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Boulle | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Burdin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marine Vigier Seyt | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Gache | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Buffiere | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Cécile Boulle | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Burdin | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marine Vigier Seyt | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gérard Alaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nancy Atger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Bascle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoit Brugeron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adalet Celik | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Marie Dupeyron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Dupont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Gastal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joël Gras | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Hugon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Kuzan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Monique Malige | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Masseboeuf | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Meissonnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathaël Palpacuer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Paran | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Planche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Pyat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Reversat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathan Rouviere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Trocellier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Valy | 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-Chély-d'Apcher, above.
How Saint-Chély-d'Apcher voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,939 votes cast for a list
1,991 of 2,709 registered voters in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher voted.
19 blank and 33 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,854 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,946 of 2,709 registered voters in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher voted.
45 blank and 47 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-Chély-d'Apcher spends €2,256 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-Chély-d'Apcher owed €6.1M at the end of 2025, €1,331 per resident, higher than in 83% of compared French communes, equal to 97% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,256 | €887 | €1,331 | €6.1M |
| 2024 | €2,050 | €623 | €1,127 | €5.3M |
| 2023 | €1,966 | €721 | €1,260 | €6.1M |
| 2022 | €2,024 | €841 | €1,426 | €6.8M |
| 2021 | €1,457 | €348 | €1,332 | €6.4M |
| 2020 | €1,373 | €247 | €1,501 | €7.1M |
| 2019 | €1,739 | €609 | €1,692 | €8.1M |
| 2018 | €1,606 | €500 | €1,593 | €7.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Maing, €72. Highest: Allevard, €3,049.
Have a say in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher
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-Chély-d'Apcher 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-Chély-d'Apcher’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher?
Christophe Gache, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Chély-d'Apcher have?
The Saint-Chély-d'Apcher municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 4 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher?
Pour l'Avenir de Saint-Chély, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.3% of the votes; it holds 20 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Chély-d'Apcher?
71.8% 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 Saint-Chély-d'Apcher?
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-Chély-d'Apcher have?
€6.1M at the end of 2025, €1,331 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Chély-d'Apcher part of?
Saint-Chély-d'Apcher is part of the Communauté de communes des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-Aubrac, 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.