Photo: Serge Ottaviani · CC BY-SA 3.0In Râches, turnout was lower than in 96% of compared French communes
Edith Bourel has been mayor of Râches since March 20, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. A single list stood in March 2026, mieux vivre ensemble à Râches, and took all 23 seats. Râches 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 Râches’s town hall
A single list
Only one list stood in Râches on March 15, 2026: mieux vivre ensemble à Râches. It took all 23 seats; with no rival list, voters could only vote for it, cast a blank ballot or stay at home. 2026 elections ↓
Turnout below most communes
40% of registered voters in Râches voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 96% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Nord was 56.4%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Râches owed €446K at the end of 2025, €166 per resident: lower than in 93% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 23% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Râches invested €694 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 49% of its spending: higher than in 82% 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.
- mieux vivre ensemble à Râches231 community seat
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 Râches 1 seat 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: Edith Bourel · 23 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 20, 2026Edith Bourel
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilCaroline BiencourtGregory DenysPatricia MeignottePhilippe DecorpsFanny QuargnulDaniel Wattelet
- 3Râches municipal council23 seats by listmieux vivre ensemble à Râches 23
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Douaisis AggloRâches holds 1 seatCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 23 members of the Râches municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Edith Bourel | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Caroline Biencourt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gregory Denys | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patricia Meignotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Decorps | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Fanny Quargnul | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Daniel Wattelet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Edith Bourel | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Caroline Biencourt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Gregory Denys | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Patricia Meignotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Philippe Decorps | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Fanny Quargnul | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Daniel Wattelet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| François André | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fatiha Anseur | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sebastien Bourel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc Brieux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Josette Carpentier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Carmela Coussement | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc Delmotte | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabien Demagny | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marine Houseaux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Lefebvre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Meignotte | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ludivine Pauquet-Dubart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Potier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Revel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Daniel Schmidt | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Skotarek | 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 Râches, above.
How Râches voted in March 2026
A single list stood.
730 votes cast for a list
846 of 2,117 registered voters in Râches voted.
69 blank and 47 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.
Râches spends €1,414 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
Râches owed €446K at the end of 2025, €166 per resident, lower than in 93% of compared French communes, equal to 23% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,414 | €694 | €166 | €446K |
| 2024 | €1,264 | €573 | €199 | €539K |
| 2023 | €884 | €198 | €234 | €637K |
| 2022 | €948 | €332 | €267 | €732K |
| 2021 | €952 | €341 | €298 | €823K |
| 2020 | €653 | €79 | €329 | €912K |
| 2019 | €667 | €75 | €361 | €999K |
| 2018 | €989 | €424 | €392 | €1.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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: Cauffry, €14. Highest: Morzine, €6,565.
Have a say in Râches
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 Râches 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 Râches’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Râches?
Edith Bourel, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Râches have?
The Râches municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Râches?
Only one list stood: mieux vivre ensemble à Râches, which took all 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Râches?
40% 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 Râches?
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 Râches have?
€446K at the end of 2025, €166 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Râches part of?
Râches 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.