In Coutances, the council took a second round
Etienne Savary has been mayor of Coutances since March 28, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UNIS POUR COUTANCES won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.6% of the votes. Coutances is part of the Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage.
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 Coutances’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, UNIS POUR COUTANCES came first with 44.6% and took 22 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Coutances owed €9.5M at the end of 2025, €991 per resident: higher than in 68% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 84% 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.
- UNIS POUR COUTANCES2210 community seats
- COUTANCES, AGIR ENSEMBLE32 community seats
- ALTERNATIVES CITOYENNES DU COUTANÇAIS21 community seat
- COUTANCES AUJOURD'HUI ET DEMAIN10 community seats
- COUTANCES GARDE LE CAP10 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 Coutances 13 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage (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: Etienne Savary · 29 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, 2026Etienne Savary
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Marc MillavaudFrançoise LecuirSerge MinguetMathilde LecompteSylvain PrioultLydie PoissonBruno Herboux
- 3Coutances municipal council29 seats by listUNIS POUR COUTANCES 22 · COUTANCES, AGIR ENSEMBLE 3 · ALTERNATIVES CITOYENNES DU COUTANÇAIS 2 · COUTANCES AUJOURD'HUI ET DEMAIN 1 · COUTANCES GARDE LE CAP 1
- 4Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et BocageCoutances holds 13 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 29 members of the Coutances municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Etienne Savary | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Millavaud | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Françoise Lecuir | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Serge Minguet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mathilde Lecompte | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvain Prioult | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Lydie Poisson | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Herboux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Etienne Savary | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Millavaud | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Françoise Lecuir | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Serge Minguet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mathilde Lecompte | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvain Prioult | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Lydie Poisson | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Herboux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jérémy Bourgeois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Bruneau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Clément | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Grégory Galbadon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Gueritault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edwige L'Hullier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Langlois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Le Mière | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillaume Lerouxel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Magalie Levionnois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Louise | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Annabelle Marie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Noël | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Osmont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Camille Payre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Charlotte Pénot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Renard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Rouxel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Savary | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Thomas | 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 Coutances, above.
How Coutances voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
3,221 votes cast for a list
3,295 of 5,982 registered voters in Coutances voted.
35 blank and 39 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
3,256 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,343 of 5,982 registered voters in Coutances voted.
57 blank and 30 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.
Coutances spends €1,605 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
Coutances owed €9.5M at the end of 2025, €991 per resident, higher than in 68% of compared French communes, equal to 84% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,605 | €430 | €991 | €9.5M |
| 2024 | €1,747 | €578 | €1,063 | €10.1M |
| 2023 | €2,062 | €855 | €1,105 | €10.6M |
| 2022 | €1,739 | €714 | €543 | €5.2M |
| 2021 | €1,627 | €574 | €587 | €5.7M |
| 2020 | €1,307 | €305 | €561 | €5.4M |
| 2019 | €1,589 | €512 | €392 | €3.9M |
| 2018 | €1,235 | €319 | €407 | €4.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 10th 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: Paray-Vieille-Poste, €1. Highest: Marseillan, €4,077.
Have a say in Coutances
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 Coutances 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 Coutances’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Coutances?
Etienne Savary, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Coutances have?
The Coutances municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Coutances?
UNIS POUR COUTANCES, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.6% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Coutances?
55.9% 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 Coutances?
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 Coutances have?
€9.5M at the end of 2025, €991 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Coutances part of?
Coutances is part of the Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage, 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.