Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux · CC BY-SA 3.0In Schœlcher, turnout was lower than in 80% of compared French communes
Daniel Chomet has been mayor of Schœlcher since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, UNIS POUR SCHOELCHER won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.6% of the votes. Schœlcher is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la 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 Schœlcher’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, UNIS POUR SCHOELCHER came first with 51.6% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49% of registered voters in Schœlcher voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 80% of compared French communes (France median 57.4%). 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Schœlcher owed €10.6M at the end of 2025, €543 per resident: lower than in 68% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 34% 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.
- UNIS POUR SCHOELCHER256 community seats
- L'UNION AVEC VIVRE A SCHOELCHER81 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 Schœlcher 7 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la 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: Daniel Chomet · 33 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, 2026Daniel Chomet
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilFranck Sainte-Rose-RosemondJoëlle Jeanne Marie-Rose Épse TailameGeorges HarponLaura BedouinStanley SymphorJill OctaviaManuel Maxime GhunaimSandra Palix+1 more
- 3Schœlcher municipal council33 seats by listUNIS POUR SCHOELCHER 25 · L'UNION AVEC VIVRE A SCHOELCHER 8
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la MartiniqueSchœlcher holds 7 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 Schœlcher municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Chomet | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Sainte-Rose-Rosemond | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Jeanne Marie-Rose Épse Tailame | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Harpon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laura Bedouin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stanley Symphor | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jill Octavia | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Manuel Maxime Ghunaim | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Palix | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Chalbot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Chomet | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Sainte-Rose-Rosemond | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Jeanne Marie-Rose Épse Tailame | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Harpon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laura Bedouin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stanley Symphor | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jill Octavia | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Manuel Maxime Ghunaim | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Palix | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Yves Chalbot | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Youly Agasta | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eddy Arnolin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Baudin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alec Beroard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Noham Bodard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jocelyn Cachacou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Chauvet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Desire | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Flore Eva Francillette Epse Fleriag | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Garon Née Giraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rodrigue Mickaël Grelet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Joseph-Monrose | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maurice Joseph-Monrose | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guylène Junkere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yolene Largen-Marine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Doris Majeste | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Didier Marmot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Midelton | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudia Neller | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Pierre-Francois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Odile Valérie Saint-Louis-Augustin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Tiburce Epse Rubin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Ultet | 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 Schœlcher, above.
How Schœlcher voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
7,960 votes cast for a list
8,261 of 15,500 registered voters in Schœlcher voted.
175 blank and 126 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
7,279 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
7,600 of 15,502 registered voters in Schœlcher voted.
199 blank and 122 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.
Schœlcher spends €1,903 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
Schœlcher owed €10.6M at the end of 2025, €543 per resident, lower than in 68% of compared French communes, equal to 34% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,903 | €282 | €543 | €10.6M |
| 2024 | €1,912 | €305 | €613 | €12M |
| 2023 | €1,990 | €477 | €684 | €13.4M |
| 2022 | €1,659 | €231 | €753 | €14.9M |
| 2021 | €1,464 | €190 | €593 | €11.9M |
| 2020 | €1,634 | €347 | €587 | €11.9M |
| 2019 | €1,408 | €130 | €646 | €13M |
| 2018 | €1,304 | €74 | €667 | €13.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 10th 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: Villefontaine, €21. Highest: Chennevières-sur-Marne, €2,399.
Have a say in Schœlcher
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 Schœlcher 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 Schœlcher’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Schœlcher?
Daniel Chomet, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Schœlcher have?
The Schœlcher municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Schœlcher?
UNIS POUR SCHOELCHER, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51.6% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Schœlcher?
49% 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 Schœlcher?
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 Schœlcher have?
€10.6M at the end of 2025, €543 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Schœlcher part of?
Schœlcher is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la 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.