Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0In Châlons-en-Champagne, the council took a second round
Benoist Apparu has been mayor of Châlons-en-Champagne since March 28, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, J'aime Châlons won 29 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.2% of the votes. Châlons-en-Champagne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Châlons-en-Champagne.
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.
What stands out about Châlons-en-Champagne’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, J'aime Châlons came first with 34.2% and took 29 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 14. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.7% of registered voters in Châlons-en-Champagne voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 79% 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- J'aime Châlons2925 community seats
- L'ESPOIR D'UN AVENIR MEILLEUR POUR CHÂLONS !76 community seats
- Pour Châlons, agissons ensemble !65 community seats
- Châlons Droit au Coeur11 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 Châlons-en-Champagne 37 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Châlons-en-Champagne (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: Benoist Apparu · 43 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, 2026Benoist Apparu
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilEmmanuelle GuillaumeAugustin DelavenneSabine Bourg-BrocMadjid FarahiFloriana PaindavoineAlain SauvageNatacha NicaiseChristophe Guillemot+4 more
- 3Châlons-en-Champagne municipal council43 seats by listJ'aime Châlons 29 · L'ESPOIR D'UN AVENIR MEILLEUR POUR CHÂLONS ! 7 · Pour Châlons, agissons ensemble ! 6 · Châlons Droit au Coeur 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Châlons-en-ChampagneChâlons-en-Champagne holds 37 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 43 members of the Châlons-en-Champagne municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoist Apparu | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Guillaume | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Augustin Delavenne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sabine Bourg-Broc | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Madjid Farahi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Floriana Paindavoine | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alain Sauvage | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Natacha Nicaise | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Guillemot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Clémence Brémont | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphane Michelet | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sarah Benamara | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Panquet | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoist Apparu | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Guillaume | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Augustin Delavenne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sabine Bourg-Broc | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Madjid Farahi | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Floriana Paindavoine | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alain Sauvage | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Natacha Nicaise | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Christophe Guillemot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Clémence Brémont | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphane Michelet | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sarah Benamara | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Panquet | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Essaid Bahdad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Achille Bisiaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Bonne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Calujek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Castillo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clément Chantriaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcel Chauvière | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Inès Corbon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacky Deliège | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Dubanchet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elodie Ferreira Faria | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karima Gautier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Gérardin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Safia Hamoudi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Janssens | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Lamiable | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Lebas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Lizola | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gabriel Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Mât | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rudy Namur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascale Odent | Conseiller municipal | March 26, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Pauly | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jessica Prud'Homme | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Quimper | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Constance Regnauld | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Serré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Stephan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Vincent-Carrillo | 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 Châlons-en-Champagne, above.
How Châlons-en-Champagne voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
12,495 votes cast for a list
12,741 of 23,496 registered voters in Châlons-en-Champagne voted.
94 blank and 152 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
11,433 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,663 of 23,483 registered voters in Châlons-en-Champagne voted.
102 blank and 128 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.
Châlons-en-Champagne spends €1,798 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
Châlons-en-Champagne owed €34.4M at the end of 2025, €777 per resident, higher than in 53% of compared French communes, equal to 56% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,798 | €418 | €777 | €34.4M |
| 2024 | €1,699 | €370 | €767 | €34.4M |
| 2023 | €1,726 | €436 | €775 | €35.3M |
| 2022 | €1,680 | €383 | €767 | €35M |
| 2021 | €1,681 | €425 | €778 | €35.4M |
| 2020 | €1,608 | €360 | €745 | €34.3M |
| 2019 | €1,718 | €525 | €828 | €38.3M |
| 2018 | €1,525 | €365 | €869 | €40.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 13th 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: Puteaux, €17. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Châlons-en-Champagne
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 Châlons-en-Champagne 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 Châlons-en-Champagne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Châlons-en-Champagne?
Benoist Apparu, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Châlons-en-Champagne have?
The Châlons-en-Champagne municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Châlons-en-Champagne?
J'aime Châlons, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.2% of the votes; it holds 29 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Châlons-en-Champagne?
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 Châlons-en-Champagne?
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 Châlons-en-Champagne have?
€34.4M at the end of 2025, €777 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Châlons-en-Champagne part of?
Châlons-en-Champagne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Châlons-en-Champagne, 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.