Photo: Floflo62 · CC BY-SA 4.0Estaires invested more per resident in 2025 than 88% of compared communes
Dorothée Bertrand has been mayor of Estaires since March 21, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ESTAIRES AVEC VOUS won 24 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 61.3% of the votes. Estaires is part of the Communauté de communes Flandre Lys.
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 Estaires’s town hall
Won in the first round
ESTAIRES AVEC VOUS won 61.3% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 24 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Estaires owed €2.3M at the end of 2025, €349 per resident: lower than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 42% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Estaires invested €800 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 49% of its spending: higher than in 88% 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.
- ESTAIRES AVEC VOUS246 community seats
- Estaires, Votre Ville, Votre Voix41 community seat
- Estaires au coeur10 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 Estaires 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Flandre Lys (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: Dorothée Bertrand · 29 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, 2026Dorothée Bertrand
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilYves ColpaertFrancine MouriksFrédéric DubusAugustine VilleGérard BellengierAudrey BéagueFrançois-Xavier HenneonMeghann Willems
- 3Estaires municipal council29 seats by listESTAIRES AVEC VOUS 24 · Estaires, Votre Ville, Votre Voix 4 · Estaires au coeur 1
- 4Communauté de communes Flandre LysEstaires holds 7 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 29 members of the Estaires municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothée Bertrand | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yves Colpaert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Francine Mouriks | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Frédéric Dubus | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Augustine Ville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Bellengier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Audrey Béague | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François-Xavier Henneon | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Meghann Willems | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothée Bertrand | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Yves Colpaert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Francine Mouriks | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Frédéric Dubus | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Augustine Ville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Gérard Bellengier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Audrey Béague | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| François-Xavier Henneon | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Meghann Willems | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pascale Algoët | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Amélie Beaussart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Blain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julie Borelle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Romain Buisine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Campagne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Dassonville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Quentin Delay | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Descamps | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Dewulf | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Monique Duhayon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Gisquiere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Hoornaert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laëtitia Legrand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Tifenn Lievin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bérangère Mahauden Ville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yann Normand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michaël Parent | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Robin Quevillart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Verguldezoone | 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 Estaires, above.
How Estaires voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
3,126 votes cast for a list
3,195 of 5,294 registered voters in Estaires voted.
32 blank and 37 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.
Estaires spends €1,639 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
Estaires owed €2.3M at the end of 2025, €349 per resident, lower than in 83% of compared French communes, equal to 42% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,639 | €800 | €349 | €2.3M |
| 2024 | €1,255 | €395 | €403 | €2.7M |
| 2023 | €1,445 | €622 | €453 | €3M |
| 2022 | €1,477 | €668 | €504 | €3.3M |
| 2021 | €1,011 | €289 | €243 | €1.6M |
| 2020 | €991 | €292 | €277 | €1.8M |
| 2019 | €1,106 | €419 | €310 | €2M |
| 2018 | €875 | €218 | €366 | €2.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Villers-Saint-Paul, €120. Highest: Thoiry, €3,087.
Have a say in Estaires
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 Estaires 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 Estaires’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Estaires?
Dorothée Bertrand, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Estaires have?
The Estaires municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Estaires?
ESTAIRES AVEC VOUS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 61.3% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Estaires?
60.4% 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 Estaires?
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 Estaires have?
€2.3M at the end of 2025, €349 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Estaires part of?
Estaires is part of the Communauté de communes Flandre Lys, 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.