Photo: Budotradan · Public domainMaubeuge carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Arnaud Decagny has been mayor of Maubeuge since March 22, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Ensemble.Maubeuge avance ! won 27 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes. Maubeuge is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Maubeuge Val de Sambre.
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 Maubeuge’s town hall
Won in the first round
Ensemble.Maubeuge avance ! won 50.7% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 5 lists stood. It took 27 of the 35 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
45.8% of registered voters in Maubeuge voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 88% 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
Maubeuge owed €101.5M at the end of 2025, €3,481 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 211% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Maubeuge invested €605 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 27% of its spending: higher than in 75% 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.
- Ensemble.Maubeuge avance !2714 community seats
- Notre Maubeuge52 community seats
- Pour Maubeuge, le nouveau souffle !21 community seat
- Maubeuge, pour vous !10 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 Maubeuge 17 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Maubeuge Val de Sambre (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 Decagny · 35 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 22, 2026Arnaud Decagny
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilJeannine PaqueNicolas LeblancSamia SerhaniEmmanuel LococcioloBernadette MoriaméDenis DejardinMyriam BertauxNaguib Reffas+2 more
- 3Maubeuge municipal council35 seats by listEnsemble.Maubeuge avance ! 27 · Notre Maubeuge 5 · Pour Maubeuge, le nouveau souffle ! 2 · Maubeuge, pour vous ! 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Maubeuge Val de SambreMaubeuge holds 17 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 35 members of the Maubeuge municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Decagny | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeannine Paque | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Leblanc | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Samia Serhani | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Lococciolo | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernadette Moriamé | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Dejardin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Bertaux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Naguib Reffas | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Galland | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| André Piegay | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Arnaud Decagny | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeannine Paque | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Leblanc | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Samia Serhani | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Lococciolo | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernadette Moriamé | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Denis Dejardin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Bertaux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Naguib Reffas | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Galland | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| André Piegay | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nordine Ait Barka | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Nadia Aoudj | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lucie Auquiert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Saïd Belhadjoudja | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Benazet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Abdoullah Boughazi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Boufeldja Bounoua | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Liliane Caterina | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Courtin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabrice de Kepper | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Fuentes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Djilali Hadda | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Charles Laly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annick Lebrun | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Mairesse | Conseiller municipal | March 21, 2026 |
| Melodie Merlin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrica Polet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Rasschaert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Rombeaut | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annie Seoudi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Malika Tajdirt | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Taverne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Wavrin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Azzeddine Zekhnini | 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 Maubeuge, above.
How Maubeuge voted in March 2026
5 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
8,176 votes cast for a list
8,396 of 18,331 registered voters in Maubeuge voted.
144 blank and 76 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.
Maubeuge spends €2,252 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
Maubeuge owed €101.5M at the end of 2025, €3,481 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 211% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,252 | €605 | €3,481 | €101.5M |
| 2024 | €2,264 | €647 | €3,303 | €96.9M |
| 2023 | €2,133 | €657 | €3,054 | €91.4M |
| 2022 | €1,789 | €357 | €2,877 | €86M |
| 2021 | €1,723 | €386 | €2,723 | €81.5M |
| 2020 | €1,407 | €195 | €2,709 | €82M |
| 2019 | €1,581 | €336 | €2,764 | €82.9M |
| 2018 | €1,496 | €304 | €2,849 | €86.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 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: Illkirch-Graffenstaden, €82. Highest: Maubeuge, €3,481.
Have a say in Maubeuge
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 Maubeuge 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 Maubeuge’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Maubeuge?
Arnaud Decagny, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Maubeuge have?
The Maubeuge municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Maubeuge?
Ensemble.Maubeuge avance !, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Maubeuge?
45.8% 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 Maubeuge?
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 Maubeuge have?
€101.5M at the end of 2025, €3,481 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Maubeuge part of?
Maubeuge is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Maubeuge Val de Sambre, 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.