In Lorient, the council took a second round
Fabrice Loher has been mayor of Lorient since March 27, 2026, elected by the 45 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Nous Lorientais won 33 of the 45 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 45.3% of the votes. Lorient is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Lorient Agglomération.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Morbihan and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Lorient’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Nous Lorientais came first with 45.3% and took 33 of the 45 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Lorient owed €63.8M at the end of 2025, €1,070 per resident: higher than in 72% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 64% 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.
- Nous Lorientais3316 community seats
- L'Union des forces de gauche, écologistes et citoyennes104 community seats
- Rassembler Lorient21 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 Lorient 21 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Lorient 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: Fabrice Loher · 45 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, 2026Fabrice Loher
- 2Deputy mayors15 adjoints, elected by the councilMorgane ChristienPierre-Yves DreanFrançoise KihlStéphane DanielSamantha Le TutourBruno ParisAnne-Lise Tesson-LecoqFranck Croulliere-Blaszka+7 more
- 3Lorient municipal council45 seats by listNous Lorientais 33 · L'Union des forces de gauche, écologistes et citoyennes 10 · Rassembler Lorient 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Lorient AgglomérationLorient holds 21 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 45 members of the Lorient municipal council
The mayor and 15 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrice Loher | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Morgane Christien | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Drean | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Françoise Kihl | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Daniel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Samantha Le Tutour | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bruno Paris | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne-Lise Tesson-Lecoq | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Franck Croulliere-Blaszka | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magali Pain | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mustapha El Kettab | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laure Dechavanne | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Ginet | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Palant-Le Hegarat | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Salih Acar | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Chrystelle Le Ray | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (45)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrice Loher | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Morgane Christien | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Drean | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Françoise Kihl | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Daniel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Samantha Le Tutour | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bruno Paris | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne-Lise Tesson-Lecoq | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Franck Croulliere-Blaszka | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Magali Pain | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mustapha El Kettab | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laure Dechavanne | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Ginet | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Palant-Le Hegarat | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Salih Acar | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Chrystelle Le Ray | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Delphine Alexandre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Audard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Bervas | Conseiller municipal | March 25, 2026 |
| Cécile Besnard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabine Coussi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tom Daune | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Korentin Gaillard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion Galissard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Damien Girard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Radhouan Haouach | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chafik Hbila | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Hode | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Radouane Khalfi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dan Khersis | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Chantal Lallican | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Le Brusq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Le Carboulec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Le Du | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Armelle Le Lann | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yann Le Meillour | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillian Le Nezet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Le Stradic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rozenn Metayer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Olagne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Philippe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cindy Pogam | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Théo Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charlène Winter | 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 Lorient, above.
How Lorient voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
21,209 votes cast for a list
21,688 of 38,269 registered voters in Lorient voted.
261 blank and 218 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
20,825 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
21,186 of 38,265 registered voters in Lorient voted.
219 blank and 142 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.
Lorient spends €2,184 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
Lorient owed €63.8M at the end of 2025, €1,070 per resident, higher than in 72% of compared French communes, equal to 64% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,184 | €519 | €1,070 | €63.8M |
| 2024 | €2,076 | €438 | €1,033 | €61.3M |
| 2023 | €1,914 | €376 | €966 | €56.9M |
| 2022 | €1,785 | €302 | €837 | €49.2M |
| 2021 | €1,607 | €233 | €820 | €48M |
| 2020 | €1,535 | €213 | €824 | €48.3M |
| 2019 | €1,594 | €265 | €882 | €51.8M |
| 2018 | €1,564 | €259 | €876 | €51.8M |
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: Sartrouville, €154. Highest: Antony, €2,652.
Have a say in Lorient
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 Lorient 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 Lorient’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lorient?
Fabrice Loher, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lorient have?
The Lorient municipal council has 45 members, the mayor and 15 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Lorient?
Nous Lorientais, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 45.3% of the votes; it holds 33 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Lorient?
55.4% 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 Lorient?
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 Lorient have?
€63.8M at the end of 2025, €1,070 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lorient part of?
Lorient is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Lorient 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.