Photo: Velvet · CC BY-SA 3.0Lille carries more debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Arnaud Deslandes has been mayor of Lille since March 27, 2026, elected by the 61 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, TOUT POUR LILLE DEMAIN won 47 of the 61 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.3% of the votes. Lille is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
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 Lille’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 9 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, TOUT POUR LILLE DEMAIN came first with 49.3% and took 47 of the 61 seats; the other lists share the remaining 14. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
52% of registered voters in Lille voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 71% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Nord was 56.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Lille owed €389.2M at the end of 2025, €1,618 per resident: higher than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 101% 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.
- TOUT POUR LILLE DEMAIN4726 community seats
- LILLE INSOUMISE, ÉCOLOGISTE ET POPULAIRE106 community seats
- UNE AUTRE LILLE21 community seat
- FAIRE RESPIRER LILLE21 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 Lille 34 seats on the council of the Métropole Européenne de Lille (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: Arnaud Deslandes · 61 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, 2026Arnaud Deslandes
- 2Deputy mayors24 adjoints, elected by the councilStéphane BalyCharlotte BrunMaroin Al-DandachiJustine RateladeEddie JacquemartFaustine Balmelle-DelauzunJean-Claude MenaultAnissa Baderi+16 more
- 3Lille municipal council61 seats by listTOUT POUR LILLE DEMAIN 47 · LILLE INSOUMISE, ÉCOLOGISTE ET POPULAIRE 10 · UNE AUTRE LILLE 2 · FAIRE RESPIRER LILLE 2
- 4Métropole Européenne de LilleLille holds 34 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 61 members of the Lille municipal council
The mayor and 24 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Deslandes | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Baly | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charlotte Brun | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maroin Al-Dandachi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Justine Ratelade | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eddie Jacquemart | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Faustine Balmelle-Delauzun | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Menault | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anissa Baderi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Laroche | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Bresson | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stanislas Dendievel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadjah Ouali | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martin David-Brochen | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Goffard | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maël Guiziou | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Niedzwialowska | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Valentin Martin | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aneth Hembert | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Quinchez | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Delphine Blas | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Arnaud Taisne | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florence Collet | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Lepetit | 23ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julie Nicolas | 24ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (61)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Deslandes | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Baly | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Charlotte Brun | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maroin Al-Dandachi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Justine Ratelade | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eddie Jacquemart | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Faustine Balmelle-Delauzun | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Menault | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anissa Baderi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Laroche | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Pierre Bresson | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stanislas Dendievel | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nadjah Ouali | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martin David-Brochen | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Anne Goffard | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maël Guiziou | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Niedzwialowska | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Valentin Martin | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aneth Hembert | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Quinchez | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Delphine Blas | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Arnaud Taisne | 21ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florence Collet | 22ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphane Lepetit | 23ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julie Nicolas | 24ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lahouaria Addouche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hakim Agouni | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Victor Aïtouche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yousra Bafouloulou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amy Bah | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manon Bargès | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stephan Benayad | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Caremelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Chassignet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roland d'Argy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agnès Durvin Kadak | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marianne Duvoux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucas Fournier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Gherbi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Khadija Gorwa-Ghomari | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marianne Guilbert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Hanoh | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Herbuvaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérémy Hoel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Beverley Joliet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Kolebacki | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bertrand Lesain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Linkenheld | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ézékiel Lucas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Macrez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Souad Marty-Zaomi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Perin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Pilette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Poix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Margaux Rouchet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Sedou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Violette Spillebout | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Camille Stievenard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matthieu Valet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laura Verdugo Beyrie | 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 Lille, above.
How Lille voted in March 2026
9 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
65,034 votes cast for a list
65,951 of 126,088 registered voters in Lille voted.
530 blank and 387 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
64,530 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
65,516 of 126,051 registered voters in Lille voted.
539 blank and 447 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.
Lille spends €2,057 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
Lille owed €389.2M at the end of 2025, €1,618 per resident, higher than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 101% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,057 | €450 | €1,618 | €389.2M |
| 2024 | €2,003 | €429 | €1,518 | €362.2M |
| 2023 | €1,912 | €384 | €1,458 | €347.2M |
| 2022 | €1,790 | €354 | €1,434 | €339M |
| 2021 | €1,625 | €310 | €1,486 | €349.4M |
| 2020 | €1,571 | €255 | €1,505 | €353.3M |
| 2019 | €1,583 | €272 | €1,558 | €368.9M |
| 2018 | €1,597 | €272 | €1,615 | €382.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 6th 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Lille
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 Lille 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 Lille’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lille?
Arnaud Deslandes, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lille have?
The Lille municipal council has 61 members, the mayor and 24 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Lille?
TOUT POUR LILLE DEMAIN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 49.3% of the votes; it holds 47 of the 61 seats.
What was the turnout in Lille?
52% 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 Lille?
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 Lille have?
€389.2M at the end of 2025, €1,618 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lille part of?
Lille is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, 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.