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Only one list stood in Argers

Gilles Schelfhout has been mayor of Argers since March 21, 2026, elected by the 11 members of the municipal council. A single list stood in March 2026, SCHELFHOUT Gilles, and took all 11 seats. Argers is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Argonne Champenoise.

Next municipal elections

March 2032

Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.

Register to vote ↗

Throughout this page, the median in Marne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Argers has 110 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.

Mayor
Gilles Schelfhout
since March 21, 2026
Council members
11
including 2 deputy mayors
Turnout, March 2026
63%
first round · France median 57%
Debt per resident
€918
end of 2025 · France median €748
In brief

What stands out about Argers’s town hall

A single list

Only one list stood in Argers on March 15, 2026: SCHELFHOUT Gilles. It took all 11 seats; with no rival list, voters could only vote for it, cast a blank ballot or stay at home. 2026 elections ↓

Turnout above most communes

63.2% of registered voters in Argers voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 77% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Marne was 50.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓

Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.

Who’s in charge

The council the voters chose

Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.

Municipal council · 11 seatsArgers municipal councilSCHELFHOUT Gilles: 11 of 11
  • SCHELFHOUT Gilles11

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.

Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.

Who runs Argers

4 authorities share the work

The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.

Commune · the town hallMairie de Argers

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: Gilles Schelfhout · 11 councilors

Intercommunality · communauté de communesCommunauté de communes de l'Argonne Champenoise

The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.

DépartementConseil départemental · Marne

Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.

RégionConseil régional · Grand Est

Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.

Who to ask

Birth, marriage and death certificatesMairie de Argers
Registering to voteMairie de Argers
Nursery and primary schoolsMairie de Argers
Building permits (filed at the town hall)Mairie de Argers
Household waste (usually)Communauté de communes de l'Argonne Champenoise
Collèges (ages 11 to 15)Conseil départemental · Marne
RSA, care for older people, child protectionConseil départemental · Marne
Lycées (ages 15 to 18)Conseil régional · Grand Est
Regional trains (TER)Conseil régional · Grand Est
ID cards and passportsAny town hall that takes applications, by appointment

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.

Who represents Argers

From the mayor to the intercommunality

The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.

  1. 1
    Mayorsince March 21, 2026
    Gilles Schelfhout
  2. 2
    Deputy mayors2 adjoints, elected by the council
    Amélie BossusVincent Lefèvre
  3. 3
    Argers municipal council11 seats by list
    SCHELFHOUT Gilles 11

Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.

The council

The 11 members of the Argers municipal council

The mayor and 2 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.

NameOfficeSince
Gilles SchelfhoutMaireMarch 21, 2026
Amélie Bossus1er adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Vincent Lefèvre2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Show the full council (11)
NameOfficeSince
Gilles SchelfhoutMaireMarch 21, 2026
Amélie Bossus1er adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Vincent Lefèvre2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 21, 2026
Emily CarpentierConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Christiane LEPINEAU (MORARD)Conseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Stephanie FallotConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Christelle GayConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Fabien HaineConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Celine MetensConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Jerome ParisConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Ivan TollemerConseiller municipalMarch 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 Argers, above.

2026 elections

How Argers voted in March 2026

A single list stood.

Municipal council of Argersfirst round · March 15, 2026
SCHELFHOUT Gilles11 seats100.0%

49 votes cast for a list

Turnout · first round
63%

60 of 95 registered voters in Argers voted.

5 blank and 6 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.

Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026

ArgersMedian in MarneFrance median
Voted63.2%
0%50%100%

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.

The commune’s money

Argers spends €873 per resident a year

The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.

Spending
€873
per resident, 2025
€96K in all
Running costs
€407
per resident, 2025
€45K in all
Investment
€467
per resident, 2025
€51K in all
Debt
€918
per resident, end of 2025
€101K in all

Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes

ArgersMedian in MarneFrance median
Spending€873
Running costs€407
Investment€467
Debt€918
€0€1,000€2,000

Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025

€0€500€1,000€1,500€2,00020182019202020212022202320242025Spending 2018 : €383Spending 2019 : €551Spending 2020 : €441Spending 2021 : €466Spending 2022 : €1,155Spending 2023 : €493Spending 2024 : €555Spending 2025 : €873Debt 2018 : €382Debt 2019 : €343Debt 2020 : €301Debt 2021 : €1,302Debt 2022 : €1,230Debt 2023 : €1,140Debt 2024 : €1,036Debt 2025 : €918DebtSpending

Argers owed €101K at the end of 2025, €918 per resident, higher than in 63% of compared French communes, equal to 226% of a year’s running costs.

Show year by year
YearSpendingInvestmentDebtDebt in all
2025€873€467€918€101K
2024€555€139€1,036€114K
2023€493€104€1,140€127K
2022€1,155€479€1,230€139K
2021€466€132€1,302€151K
2020€441€46€301€36K
2019€551€225€343€40K
2018€383€52€382€44K

Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.

Towns its size

The 12th highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size

The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.

Argers €918
WattenMers-les-Bains
€0€1,700€3,400

Lowest: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.

Get involved

Have a say in Argers

Register to vote

French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.

service-public.fr ↗
Check your registration

See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.

service-public.fr ↗
Go to a council meeting

Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.

service-public.fr ↗
Contact the town hall

Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Argers in the public services directory.

lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗
Stand for the council

Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.

interieur.gouv.fr ↗
How to read these numbers

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 Argers’s town hall

Who is the mayor of Argers?

Gilles Schelfhout, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).

How many councilors does Argers have?

The Argers municipal council has 11 members, the mayor and 2 deputy mayors included.

Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Argers?

Only one list stood: SCHELFHOUT Gilles, which took all 11 seats.

What was the turnout in Argers?

63.2% 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 Argers?

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 Argers have?

€101K at the end of 2025, €918 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.

Which intercommunality is Argers part of?

Argers is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Argonne Champenoise, 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.