Stiring-Wendel carries less debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Yves Ludwig has been mayor of Stiring-Wendel since March 21, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, STIRING TOUJOURS won 26 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.3% of the votes. Stiring-Wendel is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France.
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 Stiring-Wendel’s town hall
Won in the first round
STIRING TOUJOURS won 55.3% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 26 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.2% of registered voters in Stiring-Wendel voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 77% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Moselle was 51.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Stiring-Wendel owed €5K at the end of 2025, €0 per resident: lower than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 0% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Stiring-Wendel invested €213 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 19% of its spending: lower than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- STIRING TOUJOURS266 community seats
- UNE MAIRE ET UN DÉPUTÉ POUR STIRING-WENDEL72 community seats
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 Stiring-Wendel 8 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France (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: Yves Ludwig · 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 21, 2026Yves Ludwig
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilElisabeth HaagAlain AllemandBrigitte SotgiuYannick Le BlancSuzanne MullerGrégoire LeiningerDanielle HoltzerAyoub Saidi+1 more
- 3Stiring-Wendel municipal council33 seats by listSTIRING TOUJOURS 26 · UNE MAIRE ET UN DÉPUTÉ POUR STIRING-WENDEL 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de FranceStiring-Wendel holds 8 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 Stiring-Wendel municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yves Ludwig | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Haag | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alain Allemand | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Brigitte Sotgiu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yannick Le Blanc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Suzanne Muller | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégoire Leininger | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Danielle Holtzer | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ayoub Saidi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Eugénie Denninger | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Yves Ludwig | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Haag | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alain Allemand | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Brigitte Sotgiu | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yannick Le Blanc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Suzanne Muller | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Grégoire Leininger | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Danielle Holtzer | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ayoub Saidi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Eugénie Denninger | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Abdenhour Azouz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Salah Bachir | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Burg | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mireille Cinqualbre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mourad Guesmia | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Geneviève Hammerschmidt | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Hank Gillenberg | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anaïs Hanns | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Houlle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jacques Koenig | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Koralewski | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Lambine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Langbour | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gaëlle LEBLANC - Pont | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patricia Maillard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Josiane Marison | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lila Merabtine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lorène Mick | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Angelo Monelli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Kévin Pfeffer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anâïs Schaaf | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nadine Spohr Tyrakowski | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Claude Steinmetz | 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 Stiring-Wendel, above.
How Stiring-Wendel voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,641 votes cast for a list
3,719 of 7,403 registered voters in Stiring-Wendel voted.
45 blank and 33 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.
Stiring-Wendel spends €1,137 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
Stiring-Wendel owed €5K at the end of 2025, €0 per resident, lower than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 0% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,137 | €213 | €0 | €5K |
| 2024 | €1,389 | €480 | €0 | €5K |
| 2023 | €1,080 | €221 | €0 | €5K |
| 2022 | €998 | €180 | €0 | €4K |
| 2021 | €845 | €80 | €0 | €4K |
| 2020 | €853 | €119 | €0 | €5K |
| 2019 | €932 | €238 | €0 | €5K |
| 2018 | €908 | €240 | €0 | €4K |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd 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: Tinqueux, €0. Highest: Arcachon, €3,805.
Have a say in Stiring-Wendel
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 Stiring-Wendel 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 Stiring-Wendel’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Stiring-Wendel?
Yves Ludwig, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Stiring-Wendel have?
The Stiring-Wendel municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Stiring-Wendel?
STIRING TOUJOURS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 55.3% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Stiring-Wendel?
50.2% 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 Stiring-Wendel?
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 Stiring-Wendel have?
€5K at the end of 2025, €0 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Stiring-Wendel part of?
Stiring-Wendel is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France, 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.