How is Avranches run?
David Nicolas has been mayor of Avranches since March 20, 2026, elected by the 36 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, aimons avranches et saint martin won 27 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 51.1% of the votes. Avranches is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Manche 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.
- aimons avranches et saint martin278 community seats
- Avranches St-Martin, Agissons ensemble82 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 Avranches 10 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie (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: David Nicolas · 36 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 20, 2026David Nicolas
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilChristian CossecAnnie ParentYves LouzéStéphanie BidetThierry PennecChristine DoktorJacques LucasMartine Lorin+2 more
- 3Avranches municipal council35 seats by listaimons avranches et saint martin 27 · Avranches St-Martin, Agissons ensemble 8
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-NormandieAvranches holds 10 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 36 members of the Avranches municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphanie Bidet | Maire délégué | March 20, 2026 |
| David Nicolas | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christian Cossec | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Annie Parent | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Yves Louzé | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bidet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Pennec | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christine Doktor | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jacques Lucas | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Lorin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Kentin Tiercelin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nadine Calvez | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (36)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphanie Bidet | Maire délégué | March 20, 2026 |
| David Nicolas | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christian Cossec | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Annie Parent | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Yves Louzé | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Bidet | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Thierry Pennec | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christine Doktor | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jacques Lucas | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Lorin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Kentin Tiercelin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nadine Calvez | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jocelyne Arondel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Besnard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Bouffigny | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Brunet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bertrand Claveau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Blandine Coquelin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Cottin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Élodie Dauthieux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Denoyer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Dominique | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Duteil | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Angélique Ferreira | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elisa Fiorini | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Laure Goût | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Hau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mickaël Jourdan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cléo Lacote | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martine Lavalette | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ludovic Legendre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emilie Leroy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Marie | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Nozieres | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Paysant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Saint-James | 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 Avranches, above.
How Avranches voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,391 votes cast for a list
4,621 of 7,857 registered voters in Avranches voted.
130 blank and 100 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.
Avranches spends €1,443 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
Avranches owed €9.9M at the end of 2025, €924 per resident, higher than in 63% of compared French communes, equal to 81% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,443 | €306 | €924 | €9.9M |
| 2024 | €1,632 | €538 | €1,038 | €11.2M |
| 2023 | €1,462 | €369 | €1,168 | €12.6M |
| 2022 | €1,366 | €409 | €1,223 | €13.2M |
| 2021 | €1,270 | €292 | €916 | €9.9M |
| 2020 | €1,125 | €213 | €789 | €8.4M |
| 2019 | €1,241 | €252 | €978 | €10.6M |
| 2018 | €1,222 | €234 | €1,093 | €11.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Sainte-Savine, €45. Highest: Ploërmel, €2,408.
Have a say in Avranches
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 Avranches 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 Avranches’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Avranches?
David Nicolas, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Avranches have?
The Avranches municipal council has 36 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Avranches?
aimons avranches et saint martin, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 51.1% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Avranches?
58.8% 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 Avranches?
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 Avranches have?
€9.9M at the end of 2025, €924 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Avranches part of?
Avranches is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie, 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.