How is Saint-Lô run?
Emmanuelle Lejeune has been mayor of Saint-Lô since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Engagés pour Saint-Lô won 24 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.5% of the votes. Saint-Lô is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô Agglo.
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.
- Engagés pour Saint-Lô2416 community seats
- Saint-Lô 202653 community seats
- Gauche Unie pour Saint-Lô 202621 community seat
- SAINT-LÔ COMMUNE CITOYENNE21 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-Lô 21 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô Agglo (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: Emmanuelle Lejeune · 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, 2026Emmanuelle Lejeune
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilMatthieu LebrunTouria MarieArnaud GenestVirginie MétralVincent GervaiseBrigitte BoisgeraultNicolas Bonabe de RougéNoémie Ambroise-Launay+1 more
- 3Saint-Lô municipal council33 seats by listEngagés pour Saint-Lô 24 · Saint-Lô 2026 5 · Gauche Unie pour Saint-Lô 2026 2 · SAINT-LÔ COMMUNE CITOYENNE 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô AggloSaint-Lô holds 21 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 Saint-Lô municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuelle Lejeune | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Matthieu Lebrun | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Touria Marie | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Arnaud Genest | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Virginie Métral | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Gervaise | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Brigitte Boisgerault | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Bonabe de Rougé | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Noémie Ambroise-Launay | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Dominique Saint | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuelle Lejeune | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Matthieu Lebrun | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Touria Marie | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Arnaud Genest | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Virginie Métral | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Gervaise | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Brigitte Boisgerault | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Bonabe de Rougé | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Noémie Ambroise-Launay | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Dominique Saint | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Corinne Barbet | Conseiller municipal | April 7, 2026 |
| Sylvain Barré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Noël Bernicot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnés Bonnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Boucey | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hubert Bouvet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Cantrel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ophélie Collette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Gardie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Gosset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Houssin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Jumeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marta Kolyadina | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Le Gendre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Legast | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Margotteau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Ozouf | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gurvan Pithois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Poisson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romuald Robine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Garance Siva | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Simona Urban | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Virlouvet | 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-Lô, above.
How Saint-Lô voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,309 votes cast for a list
6,522 of 12,495 registered voters in Saint-Lô voted.
139 blank and 74 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
6,544 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,731 of 12,494 registered voters in Saint-Lô voted.
122 blank and 65 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-Lô spends €1,491 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-Lô owed €17.1M at the end of 2025, €851 per resident, higher than in 58% of compared French communes, equal to 73% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,491 | €322 | €851 | €17.1M |
| 2024 | €1,697 | €520 | €890 | €18M |
| 2023 | €1,434 | €294 | €806 | €16.2M |
| 2022 | €1,362 | €240 | €865 | €17.3M |
| 2021 | €1,264 | €258 | €931 | €18.6M |
| 2020 | €1,414 | €411 | €862 | €17.2M |
| 2019 | €1,425 | €474 | €706 | €14.2M |
| 2018 | €1,307 | €380 | €552 | €11.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 19th 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: Villefontaine, €21. Highest: Chennevières-sur-Marne, €2,399.
Have a say in Saint-Lô
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-Lô 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-Lô’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Lô?
Emmanuelle Lejeune, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Lô have?
The Saint-Lô municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Lô?
Engagés pour Saint-Lô, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.5% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Lô?
53.9% 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 Saint-Lô?
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-Lô have?
€17.1M at the end of 2025, €851 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Lô part of?
Saint-Lô is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô Agglo, 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.