Laval carries more debt per resident than 84% of compared communes
Florian Bercault has been mayor of Laval since March 20, 2026, elected by the 40 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Laval à venir won 34 of the 43 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 54.5% of the votes. Laval is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Mayenne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Laval’s town hall
Won in the first round
Laval à venir won 54.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 5 lists stood. It took 34 of the 43 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Laval owed €71.1M at the end of 2025, €1,370 per resident: higher than in 84% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 119% 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.
- Laval à venir3425 community seats
- AVEC VOUS POUR LAVAL75 community seats
- LE RASSEMBLEMENT POUR LAVAL21 community seat
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. The same vote gave Laval 31 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération (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: Florian Bercault · 40 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 20, 2026Florian Bercault
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilMarie-Laure Le Mee ClavreulAntoine CaplanGeneviève Pham SigmannPatrice MorinKaty Carole BernadasGeorges HoyauxCéline LoiseauJérôme Lesteven+4 more
- 3Laval municipal council43 seats by listLaval à venir 34 · AVEC VOUS POUR LAVAL 7 · LE RASSEMBLEMENT POUR LAVAL 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Laval AgglomérationLaval holds 31 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 40 members of the Laval municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florian Bercault | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Le Mee Clavreul | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Antoine Caplan | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Geneviève Pham Sigmann | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patrice Morin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Katy Carole Bernadas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Georges Hoyaux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Céline Loiseau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jérôme Lesteven | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Agnes Camarena | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guewen Douesneau | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Louise Rebeyrolle-Rozel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurent Paviot | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (40)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florian Bercault | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Le Mee Clavreul | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Antoine Caplan | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Geneviève Pham Sigmann | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patrice Morin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Katy Carole Bernadas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Georges Hoyaux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Céline Loiseau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jérôme Lesteven | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Agnes Camarena | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Guewen Douesneau | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Louise Rebeyrolle-Rozel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Laurent Paviot | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Begon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Manel Bentefrit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Habib Bousbih | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Roland Maxime Bouvet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thomas Brisseau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rihaoui Chanfi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lucie Chauvelier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Noémie Coquereau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nadège Davoust | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Moustapha Diaby | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Er-Rafiqi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Fortin-Stoltz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clara Giraud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabien Guittois | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ingrid Halle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Hibon-Arthuis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Agathe Laigle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claire Le Cornec | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amaury Jean-Marie Mabit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Meziere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annabelle Monthe-Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Neveu | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Éric Paris | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre-Henri Péan | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Samia Soultani-Vigneron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Béatrice Toquet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ingrid Walkowiak | Conseiller municipal | March 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 Laval, above.
How Laval voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
17,803 votes cast for a list
18,148 of 31,935 registered voters in Laval voted.
186 blank and 159 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.
Laval spends €1,525 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
Laval owed €71.1M at the end of 2025, €1,370 per resident, higher than in 84% of compared French communes, equal to 119% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,525 | €377 | €1,370 | €71.1M |
| 2024 | €1,550 | €350 | €1,389 | €72.5M |
| 2023 | €1,465 | €275 | €1,385 | €72.3M |
| 2022 | €1,272 | €192 | €1,399 | €73.3M |
| 2021 | €1,207 | €160 | €1,444 | €75.4M |
| 2020 | €1,242 | €164 | €1,515 | €79.2M |
| 2019 | €1,212 | €141 | €1,584 | €82.9M |
| 2018 | €1,212 | €168 | €1,594 | €84M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: Meudon, €48. Highest: Massy, €2,750.
Have a say in Laval
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 Laval 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 Laval’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Laval?
Florian Bercault, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Laval have?
The Laval municipal council has 40 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Laval?
Laval à venir, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 54.5% of the votes; it holds 34 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Laval?
56.8% 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 Laval?
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 Laval have?
€71.1M at the end of 2025, €1,370 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Laval part of?
Laval is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération, 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.