Photo: Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.0In Gros-Morne, the council took a second round
Gilbert Couturier has been mayor of Gros-Morne since March 22, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UNITE GROS-MORNAISE won 23 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 54.8% of the votes. Gros-Morne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the France median is the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade); none in this département is compared.
What stands out about Gros-Morne’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, UNITE GROS-MORNAISE came first with 54.8% and took 23 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Gros-Morne owed €5.3M at the end of 2025, €539 per resident: lower than in 68% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 35% 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.
- UNITE GROS-MORNAISE234 community seats
- Forces rassemblées pour un réveil avec audace61 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 Gros-Morne 5 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
3 authorities share the work
In Martinique one territorial authority does the work of both the département and the région.
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: Gilbert Couturier · 29 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Everything the département and the région do elsewhere: social aid, collèges, lycées, roads, regional transport and the economy.
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 22, 2026Gilbert Couturier
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilGeorges KarrazKristelle RisalHervé LuceEliane EsparteroStéphane Marc LordelotMaguy Valérie BelonyBertrand Pierre-LouisYolande Burac
- 3Gros-Morne municipal council29 seats by listUNITE GROS-MORNAISE 23 · Forces rassemblées pour un réveil avec audace 6
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord MartiniqueGros-Morne holds 5 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 Gros-Morne municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Couturier | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Karraz | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Kristelle Risal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Luce | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Eliane Espartero | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Marc Lordelot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maguy Valérie Belony | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Pierre-Louis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yolande Burac | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Couturier | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Karraz | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Kristelle Risal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Luce | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Eliane Espartero | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Marc Lordelot | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maguy Valérie Belony | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Pierre-Louis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Yolande Burac | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emile Raymond Baybaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Josseline Dambo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christina Dintimille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charles-Alfred Fontelline | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Géraldine Guannel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Happio | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Katty Jourdain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomassine Sylviane Labejof | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Barbe Luccin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Menil | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Max Moriniere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Palcy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Steeve Pavade | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylviane Reside | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Max Roy-Camille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guy Rudel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrice Solis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jonathan Tabar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Thaly-Bardol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Valentin | 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 Gros-Morne, above.
How Gros-Morne voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,743 votes cast for a list
4,847 of 7,978 registered voters in Gros-Morne voted.
46 blank and 58 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,238 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,358 of 7,981 registered voters in Gros-Morne voted.
63 blank and 57 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.
Gros-Morne spends €1,949 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
Gros-Morne owed €5.3M at the end of 2025, €539 per resident, lower than in 68% of compared French communes, equal to 35% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,949 | €422 | €539 | €5.3M |
| 2024 | €1,936 | €520 | €282 | €2.8M |
| 2023 | €1,703 | €300 | €342 | €3.4M |
| 2022 | €1,390 | €74 | €401 | €3.9M |
| 2021 | €1,334 | €87 | €451 | €4.4M |
| 2020 | €1,266 | €64 | €500 | €5M |
| 2019 | €1,280 | €50 | €557 | €5.6M |
| 2018 | €1,179 | €14 | €609 | €6.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 15th 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: Bondues, €1. Highest: Redon, €2,301.
Have a say in Gros-Morne
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 Gros-Morne 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 Gros-Morne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Gros-Morne?
Gilbert Couturier, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Gros-Morne have?
The Gros-Morne municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Gros-Morne?
UNITE GROS-MORNAISE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 54.8% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Gros-Morne?
54.6% 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 Gros-Morne?
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 Gros-Morne have?
€5.3M at the end of 2025, €539 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Gros-Morne part of?
Gros-Morne is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique, 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.