Photo: JackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0In Douai, turnout was lower than in 80% of compared French communes
Frédéric Chéreau has been mayor of Douai since March 30, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, DOUAI TOUJOURS ! won 31 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.8% of the votes. Douai is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Douaisis Agglo.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Nord and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Douai’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 8 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, DOUAI TOUJOURS ! came first with 41.8% and took 31 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49% of registered voters in Douai voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 80% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Nord was 56.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- DOUAI TOUJOURS !3114 community seats
- Unis Pour Douai94 community seats
- Ensemble, Douai redevient Géante !31 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 Douai 19 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Douaisis Agglo (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: Frédéric Chéreau · 43 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 30, 2026Frédéric Chéreau
- 2Deputy mayors16 adjoints, elected by the councilAgnès de BeukelaerFrançois GuiffardAuriane DelbarreMohamed KhérakiMaryse CarlierHocine MazyNora CherkiJacques Nowak+8 more
- 3Douai municipal council43 seats by listDOUAI TOUJOURS ! 31 · Unis Pour Douai 9 · Ensemble, Douai redevient Géante ! 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Douaisis AggloDouai holds 19 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 43 members of the Douai municipal council
The mayor and 16 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Chéreau | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Agnès de Beukelaer | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| François Guiffard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Auriane Delbarre | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mohamed Khéraki | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Maryse Carlier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Hocine Mazy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Nora Cherki | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jacques Nowak | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Khadija Ahantat | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jean Christophe Leclercq | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Samilla Azza-Messaoudi | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| François Lariviere | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mélanie Decupper-Laud | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Yvon Sipieter | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Christine Dericq | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mohamed Felouki | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Chéreau | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Agnès de Beukelaer | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| François Guiffard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Auriane Delbarre | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mohamed Khéraki | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Maryse Carlier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Hocine Mazy | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Nora Cherki | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jacques Nowak | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Khadija Ahantat | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Jean Christophe Leclercq | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Samilla Azza-Messaoudi | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| François Lariviere | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mélanie Decupper-Laud | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Yvon Sipieter | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Christine Dericq | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Mohamed Felouki | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Audegond | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Brenot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Caron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Coline Craeye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nina Debail | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hugo Decroocq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Coralie Delcleve | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carolle Divrechy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mounir Errafik | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Foucaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thibaut Francois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Frydman | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Gillot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Félix Robert Hello | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jessica Hianne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agathe Humbert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Théo Iberrakene | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Lanclu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Meïssa Legrand-Rezgui | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jamila Mekki | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Piquot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maelys Rodicq Touchon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matteo Rossi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Tesson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Thierry | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Vasseur Duhin | 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 Douai, above.
How Douai voted in March 2026
8 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
13,678 votes cast for a list
13,969 of 26,538 registered voters in Douai voted.
136 blank and 155 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
12,754 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
13,007 of 26,526 registered voters in Douai voted.
123 blank and 130 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.
Douai spends €1,951 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
Douai owed €26.8M at the end of 2025, €658 per resident, lower than in 58% of compared French communes, equal to 44% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,951 | €449 | €658 | €26.8M |
| 2024 | €1,817 | €355 | €622 | €25.2M |
| 2023 | €1,717 | €298 | €637 | €25.9M |
| 2022 | €1,713 | €330 | €733 | €29.6M |
| 2021 | €1,570 | €317 | €822 | €33.3M |
| 2020 | €1,502 | €285 | €908 | €36.9M |
| 2019 | €1,672 | €448 | €1,003 | €41M |
| 2018 | €1,641 | €427 | €1,029 | €42.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Marcq-en-Barœul, €0. Highest: Chartres, €4,713.
Have a say in Douai
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 Douai 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 Douai’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Douai?
Frédéric Chéreau, mayor since March 30, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Douai have?
The Douai municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 16 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Douai?
DOUAI TOUJOURS !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.8% of the votes; it holds 31 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Douai?
49% 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 Douai?
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 Douai have?
€26.8M at the end of 2025, €658 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Douai part of?
Douai is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Douaisis Agglo, 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.