In Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the council took a second round
Camille Margueritte has been mayor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin since March 29, 2026, elected by the 55 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Une maire pour rassembler won 42 of the 55 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.1% of the votes. Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Cotentin.
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.
What stands out about Cherbourg-en-Cotentin’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, Une maire pour rassembler came first with 53.1% and took 42 of the 55 seats; the other lists share the remaining 13. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.7% of registered voters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 79% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Manche was 58.9%; 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.
- Une maire pour rassembler4240 community seats
- LA VILLE ENSEMBLE1312 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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin 52 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Cotentin (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: Camille Margueritte · 55 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 29, 2026Camille Margueritte
- 2Deputy mayors13 adjoints, elected by the councilAntoine JeanSandrine TarinStéphane RenaudSophie HeryVincent FerrieuxKarine Poineuf-SéguinYann LepetitIsabelle Bihet+5 more
- 3Cherbourg-en-Cotentin municipal council55 seats by listUne maire pour rassembler 42 · LA VILLE ENSEMBLE 13
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du CotentinCherbourg-en-Cotentin holds 52 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 55 members of the Cherbourg-en-Cotentin municipal council
The mayor and 13 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Folliot | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Axel Fortin Larivière | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Florence Mahé | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Benjamin Maillard | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Camille Margueritte | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marie-Charlotte Saget-Sanson | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Antoine Jean | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sandrine Tarin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stéphane Renaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sophie Hery | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vincent Ferrieux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Karine Poineuf-Séguin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Yann Lepetit | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Isabelle Bihet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Bruno Françoise | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Virginie Zeboulon | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Xavier Bary | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lydie Maneaux | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Ludovic Fraize | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (55)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Folliot | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Axel Fortin Larivière | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Florence Mahé | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Benjamin Maillard | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Camille Margueritte | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marie-Charlotte Saget-Sanson | Maire délégué | March 29, 2026 |
| Antoine Jean | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sandrine Tarin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stéphane Renaud | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Sophie Hery | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vincent Ferrieux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Karine Poineuf-Séguin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Yann Lepetit | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Isabelle Bihet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Bruno Françoise | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Virginie Zeboulon | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Xavier Bary | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Lydie Maneaux | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Ludovic Fraize | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne Ambrois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Arrivé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Augeard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Bourdariat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Catherine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Chapon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Clerc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Couëpel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Monique Danzian | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Desplains | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Dincuff | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Fagnen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Fontaine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aude Galpin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Gentile | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Stéphanie Grandin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Hébert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Kemmel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Komisarek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Lefranc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ralph Lejamtel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederik Lequilbec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Madec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludovic Marie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claire Marion | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cécile Matthéos | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Noël | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anna Pic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Roussel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Saussard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anaïs Sohier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Sourisse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Tavard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Varenne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Vassal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Vildier | 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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, above.
How Cherbourg-en-Cotentin voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
29,905 votes cast for a list
30,786 of 55,140 registered voters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin voted.
551 blank and 330 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
26,262 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
27,388 of 55,121 registered voters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin voted.
708 blank and 418 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.
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin spends €2,200 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
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin owed €56.6M at the end of 2025, €706 per resident, lower than in 54% of compared French communes, equal to 40% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,200 | €425 | €706 | €56.6M |
| 2024 | €2,347 | €473 | €617 | €49.4M |
| 2023 | €2,158 | €422 | €576 | €46.2M |
| 2022 | €2,052 | €418 | €626 | €50.7M |
| 2021 | €1,824 | €342 | €616 | €50.2M |
| 2020 | €1,788 | €328 | €552 | €45M |
| 2019 | €1,835 | €411 | €602 | €49.7M |
| 2018 | €1,898 | €394 | €713 | €59.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Issy-les-Moulineaux, €225. Highest: Levallois-Perret, €3,685.
Have a say in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin 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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin?
Camille Margueritte, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Cherbourg-en-Cotentin have?
The Cherbourg-en-Cotentin municipal council has 55 members, the mayor and 13 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin?
Une maire pour rassembler, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.1% of the votes; it holds 42 of the 55 seats.
What was the turnout in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin?
49.7% 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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin?
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 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin have?
€56.6M at the end of 2025, €706 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Cherbourg-en-Cotentin part of?
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Cotentin, 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.