In Reims, turnout was lower than in 88% of compared French communes
Arnaud Robinet has been mayor of Reims since March 24, 2026, elected by the 59 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, VIVONS REIMS won 46 of the 59 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.9% of the votes. Reims is part of the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims.
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 Reims’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 7 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, VIVONS REIMS came first with 51.9% and took 46 of the 59 seats; the other lists share the remaining 13. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
45.6% of registered voters in Reims voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 88% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Marne was 50.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Reims owed €232.3M at the end of 2025, €1,280 per resident: higher than in 81% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 102% 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.
- VIVONS REIMS4646 community seats
- POUR REIMS UNE NOUVELLE ÈRE AVEC ANNE-SOPHIE FRIGOUT77 community seats
- UNIS POUR REIMS66 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 Reims 59 seats on the council of the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims (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: Arnaud Robinet · 59 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 24, 2026Arnaud Robinet
- 2Deputy mayors16 adjoints, elected by the councilValérie BeauvaisOlivier DuperonVéronique MarchetDimitri OudinMarie DepaquyVincent VerstraëteElisabeth VasseurCharles Germain+8 more
- 3Reims municipal council59 seats by listVIVONS REIMS 46 · POUR REIMS UNE NOUVELLE ÈRE AVEC ANNE-SOPHIE FRIGOUT 7 · UNIS POUR REIMS 6
- 4Communauté urbaine du Grand ReimsReims holds 59 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 59 members of the Reims municipal council
The mayor and 16 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Robinet | Maire | March 24, 2026 |
| Valérie Beauvais | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Duperon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Véronique Marchet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Dimitri Oudin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie Depaquy | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Verstraëte | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Vasseur | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charles Germain | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Mougenot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Raphaël Blanchard | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Kim Duntze | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Mansencal | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Vautheny | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jacques Ammoura | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elodie Messina | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Perrin | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (59)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Robinet | Maire | March 24, 2026 |
| Valérie Beauvais | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Duperon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Véronique Marchet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Dimitri Oudin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie Depaquy | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Verstraëte | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Vasseur | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charles Germain | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agathe Mougenot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Raphaël Blanchard | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Kim Duntze | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Mansencal | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Vautheny | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jacques Ammoura | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Elodie Messina | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Perrin | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Xavier Albertini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucile Amory | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Barré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Beaumont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Johaïna Benchikh | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Billy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Blondeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evelyne Bourgoin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ahmed Brahim | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corentin Centa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Margaux Collignon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandra Coupteau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stanislas Creusat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Dehan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Randa Diya | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Viriginie Fautra | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Frigout | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Héry | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Lang | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Larue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Lebailly | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claude Mabika | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Esther Malette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Marasco | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Mazingue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valentin Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Perin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Philipot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kévin Poncin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antoine Prieur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Quénard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Reynier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Ritaly | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Rosset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Côme Sevaistre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Armelle Simon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Grace Stockton-Bliard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Stopinski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Freddy Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabrina Turpin--Mihailovic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Verrier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Wattier | 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 Reims, above.
How Reims voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
45,433 votes cast for a list
46,310 of 102,775 registered voters in Reims voted.
479 blank and 398 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
46,058 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
46,820 of 102,735 registered voters in Reims voted.
441 blank and 321 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.
Reims spends €1,713 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
Reims owed €232.3M at the end of 2025, €1,280 per resident, higher than in 81% of compared French communes, equal to 102% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,713 | €453 | €1,280 | €232.3M |
| 2024 | €1,663 | €431 | €1,267 | €230.9M |
| 2023 | €1,529 | €377 | €1,338 | €245.2M |
| 2022 | €1,365 | €292 | €1,425 | €262.3M |
| 2021 | €1,411 | €366 | €1,468 | €271.9M |
| 2020 | €1,323 | €260 | €1,418 | €263.2M |
| 2019 | €1,332 | €295 | €1,454 | €271.9M |
| 2018 | €1,366 | €242 | €1,553 | €291.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Reims
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 Reims 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 Reims’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Reims?
Arnaud Robinet, mayor since March 24, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Reims have?
The Reims municipal council has 59 members, the mayor and 16 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Reims?
VIVONS REIMS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.9% of the votes; it holds 46 of the 59 seats.
What was the turnout in Reims?
45.6% 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 Reims?
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 Reims have?
€232.3M at the end of 2025, €1,280 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Reims part of?
Reims is part of the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims, 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.