Bar-le-Duc carries less debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Benoît Dejaiffe has been mayor of Bar-le-Duc since March 27, 2026, elected by the 32 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Bar-le-Duc, un nouvel élan ! won 23 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.1% of the votes. Bar-le-Duc is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Meuse and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Bar-le-Duc’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, Bar-le-Duc, un nouvel élan ! came first with 34.1% and took 23 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 10. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Bar-le-Duc owed €3.5M at the end of 2025, €230 per resident: lower than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 21% 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.
- Bar-le-Duc, un nouvel élan !2316 community seats
- Osons tous pour Bar-le-Duc43 community seats
- Bar-le-Duc en Grand42 community seats
- RENAISSANCE POUR BAR LE DUC22 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 Bar-le-Duc 23 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse (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: Benoît Dejaiffe · 32 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 27, 2026Benoît Dejaiffe
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilMathias RaulotSylvie JollyBenoît DamantFrédérique NeushMarc-Adrian Predescu-BernardSylvie PoussyOlivier Medard
- 3Bar-le-Duc municipal council33 seats by listBar-le-Duc, un nouvel élan ! 23 · Osons tous pour Bar-le-Duc 4 · Bar-le-Duc en Grand 4 · RENAISSANCE POUR BAR LE DUC 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Bar-le-Duc - Sud MeuseBar-le-Duc holds 23 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 32 members of the Bar-le-Duc municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoît Dejaiffe | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathias Raulot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Jolly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benoît Damant | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédérique Neush | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc-Adrian Predescu-Bernard | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Poussy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Medard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (32)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoît Dejaiffe | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathias Raulot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Jolly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benoît Damant | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédérique Neush | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marc-Adrian Predescu-Bernard | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Poussy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Olivier Medard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maxime Amblard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aymerick Andolfatto | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Bancel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Bersweiler | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Cappelaere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Coste | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Céréda | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jaouad Dah | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Géraldine Docquin-Perotin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karina Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatima El Haouti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Garaudel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michaël Gaspard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clotilde Giauffret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Etienne Hayot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Atissar Hibour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryline Klein | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Severine Kubany | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Théophile Macinot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Obara | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Pace Meilhac | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Pancher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanessa Polo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélodie Schillinger | 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 Bar-le-Duc, above.
How Bar-le-Duc voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,805 votes cast for a list
5,917 of 9,899 registered voters in Bar-le-Duc voted.
41 blank and 71 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,450 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,571 of 9,897 registered voters in Bar-le-Duc voted.
63 blank and 58 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.
Bar-le-Duc spends €1,423 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
Bar-le-Duc owed €3.5M at the end of 2025, €230 per resident, lower than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 21% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,423 | €353 | €230 | €3.5M |
| 2024 | €1,404 | €416 | €260 | €4M |
| 2023 | €1,327 | €329 | €294 | €4.5M |
| 2022 | €1,419 | €486 | €332 | €5.1M |
| 2021 | €1,227 | €346 | €368 | €5.6M |
| 2020 | €1,276 | €466 | €400 | €6.2M |
| 2019 | €1,379 | €581 | €427 | €6.8M |
| 2018 | €1,229 | €448 | €453 | €7.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Canteleu, €1. Highest: Romilly-sur-Seine, €2,169.
Have a say in Bar-le-Duc
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 Bar-le-Duc 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 Bar-le-Duc’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Bar-le-Duc?
Benoît Dejaiffe, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Bar-le-Duc have?
The Bar-le-Duc municipal council has 32 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Bar-le-Duc?
Bar-le-Duc, un nouvel élan !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.1% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Bar-le-Duc?
56.3% 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 Bar-le-Duc?
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 Bar-le-Duc have?
€3.5M at the end of 2025, €230 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Bar-le-Duc part of?
Bar-le-Duc is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse, 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.