Photo: Benoît Stella · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Avold carries more debt per resident than 85% of compared communes
Hervé Simon has been mayor of Saint-Avold since March 28, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, RASSEMBLEMENT POUR SAINT-AVOLD won 24 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.3% of the votes. Saint-Avold is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold Synergie.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Moselle and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Saint-Avold’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, RASSEMBLEMENT POUR SAINT-AVOLD came first with 43.3% and took 24 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Saint-Avold owed €21M at the end of 2025, €1,393 per resident: higher than in 85% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 76% 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.
- RASSEMBLEMENT POUR SAINT-AVOLD2413 community seats
- UTILE POUR SAINT-AVOLD63 community seats
- Pour Saint Avold32 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 Saint-Avold 18 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold Synergie (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: Hervé Simon · 33 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 28, 2026Hervé Simon
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilFabienne KlarRaphaël WittmerOcéane SimonGuy de NicoloMarjorie GittonPascal SchererLaura DenisPierre Erel+1 more
- 3Saint-Avold municipal council33 seats by listRASSEMBLEMENT POUR SAINT-AVOLD 24 · UTILE POUR SAINT-AVOLD 6 · Pour Saint Avold 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold SynergieSaint-Avold holds 18 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 Saint-Avold municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Simon | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabienne Klar | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Raphaël Wittmer | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Océane Simon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Guy de Nicolo | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marjorie Gitton | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascal Scherer | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laura Denis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Erel | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Dethoor-Felker | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé Simon | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabienne Klar | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Raphaël Wittmer | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Océane Simon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Guy de Nicolo | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marjorie Gitton | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascal Scherer | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laura Denis | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Erel | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Dethoor-Felker | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Tristan Atmania | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Beck | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Berceville | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cloe Christmann | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Blanche Crenna | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Ferreire Da Silva | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cathy Handke | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Johann Hausser | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Helfenstein | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cédric Huard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Jacob | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Jakubowski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Lang | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Loubet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Danielle Manchon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bérangère Mesnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcel Schmidt | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raymonde Schweitzer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Smolen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Sowa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maureen Spadaccini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| René Steiner | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ethan Wagner | 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 Saint-Avold, above.
How Saint-Avold voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,717 votes cast for a list
6,915 of 11,200 registered voters in Saint-Avold voted.
95 blank and 103 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
6,446 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,583 of 11,200 registered voters in Saint-Avold voted.
72 blank and 65 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.
Saint-Avold spends €2,215 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
Saint-Avold owed €21M at the end of 2025, €1,393 per resident, higher than in 85% of compared French communes, equal to 76% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,215 | €393 | €1,393 | €21M |
| 2024 | €1,956 | €229 | €1,316 | €20.2M |
| 2023 | €1,836 | €172 | €1,282 | €19.9M |
| 2022 | €1,629 | €143 | €1,442 | €22.7M |
| 2021 | €1,678 | €220 | €1,587 | €25.1M |
| 2020 | €1,613 | €137 | €1,556 | €24.7M |
| 2019 | €1,785 | €229 | €1,581 | €25.1M |
| 2018 | €1,721 | €194 | €1,478 | €24M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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: Canteleu, €1. Highest: Romilly-sur-Seine, €2,169.
Have a say in Saint-Avold
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 Saint-Avold 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 Saint-Avold’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Saint-Avold?
Hervé Simon, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Saint-Avold have?
The Saint-Avold municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Saint-Avold?
RASSEMBLEMENT POUR SAINT-AVOLD, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 43.3% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Saint-Avold?
58.8% 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 Saint-Avold?
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 Saint-Avold have?
€21M at the end of 2025, €1,393 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Saint-Avold part of?
Saint-Avold is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Avold Synergie, 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.