Photo: Mairie de Somain · CC BY-SA 4.0Somain invested less per resident in 2025 than 91% of compared communes
Jean-Baptiste Gros has been mayor of Somain since March 28, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, SOMAIN AU COEUR AVEC JEAN-BAPTISTE GROS ET SON EQUIPE won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.6% of the votes. Somain is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Ostrevent.
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 Somain’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, SOMAIN AU COEUR AVEC JEAN-BAPTISTE GROS ET SON EQUIPE came first with 52.6% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Somain owed €4.6M at the end of 2025, €382 per resident: lower than in 81% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 34% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Somain invested €158 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 12% of its spending: lower than in 91% 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.
- SOMAIN AU COEUR AVEC JEAN-BAPTISTE GROS ET SON EQUIPE268 community seats
- SOMAIN ENSEMBLE51 community seat
- SOMAIN, LE BON SENS !20 community seats
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 Somain 9 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Ostrevent (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: Jean-Baptiste Gros · 33 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 28, 2026Jean-Baptiste Gros
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilAïcha BourletFabien SaillyJustine BailleuxFabien MarciniakIsabelle WerquinNicolas HoudreVirginie MeunierJérôme Matuszewski+1 more
- 3Somain municipal council33 seats by listSOMAIN AU COEUR AVEC JEAN-BAPTISTE GROS ET SON EQUIPE 26 · SOMAIN ENSEMBLE 5 · SOMAIN, LE BON SENS ! 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'OstreventSomain holds 9 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 33 members of the Somain municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Baptiste Gros | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aïcha Bourlet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Sailly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Justine Bailleux | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Marciniak | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Werquin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Houdre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Virginie Meunier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jérôme Matuszewski | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Linke | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Baptiste Gros | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Aïcha Bourlet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Sailly | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Justine Bailleux | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Fabien Marciniak | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Werquin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Houdre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Virginie Meunier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jérôme Matuszewski | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Linke | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pierre Brabant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Cammera | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Francis Caron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sigline de Campeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romaric Dienne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Duchemin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Dupriez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daisy Finke | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Gambier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Gref | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mohamed Kahalerras | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yazid Lehingue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lolita Lesschave | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Locoge | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matthieu Marchio | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Élisa Papadia Lecocq | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Preud'Homme | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Quennesson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hervé Soufflet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sarah Vandrepotte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélissa Von Wallenstein | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claire Wiart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Wuillaume | 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 Somain, above.
How Somain voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,027 votes cast for a list
5,102 of 8,919 registered voters in Somain voted.
43 blank and 32 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,987 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,061 of 8,920 registered voters in Somain voted.
24 blank and 50 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.
Somain spends €1,281 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
Somain owed €4.6M at the end of 2025, €382 per resident, lower than in 81% of compared French communes, equal to 34% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,281 | €158 | €382 | €4.6M |
| 2024 | €1,360 | €205 | €436 | €5.2M |
| 2023 | €1,381 | €346 | €483 | €5.8M |
| 2022 | €1,419 | €389 | €443 | €5.3M |
| 2021 | €1,039 | €154 | €488 | €6M |
| 2020 | €1,049 | €156 | €554 | €6.8M |
| 2019 | €1,069 | €180 | €599 | €7.5M |
| 2018 | €1,060 | €198 | €654 | €8.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 10th 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: Hœnheim, €1. Highest: Thiers, €2,261.
Have a say in Somain
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 Somain 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 Somain’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Somain?
Jean-Baptiste Gros, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Somain have?
The Somain municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Somain?
SOMAIN AU COEUR AVEC JEAN-BAPTISTE GROS ET SON EQUIPE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52.6% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Somain?
56.7% 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 Somain?
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 Somain have?
€4.6M at the end of 2025, €382 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Somain part of?
Somain is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Ostrevent, 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.