Wattignies invested less per resident in 2025 than 97% of compared communes
Frederic Faucomprez has been mayor of Wattignies since March 29, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, WATTIGNIES C'EST VOUS POUR VOUS won 24 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.3% of the votes. Wattignies 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 Wattignies’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, WATTIGNIES C'EST VOUS POUR VOUS came first with 46.3% and took 24 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
53.5% of registered voters in Wattignies voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 66% 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
Wattignies owed €6.1M at the end of 2025, €383 per resident: lower than in 80% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 37% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Wattignies invested €105 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 9% of its spending: lower than in 97% 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.
- WATTIGNIES C'EST VOUS POUR VOUS242 community seats
- UNIS POUR WATTIGNIES60 community seats
- NOUVELLE ENERGIE WATTIGNIES30 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 Wattignies 2 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: Frederic Faucomprez · 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 29, 2026Frederic Faucomprez
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilMaryse MoreauxLuc HincelinFlorence VaastChristophe PlanquartMartine WaymelBenoit MoreauHelene LegrandAlain Butin+1 more
- 3Wattignies municipal council33 seats by listWATTIGNIES C'EST VOUS POUR VOUS 24 · UNIS POUR WATTIGNIES 6 · NOUVELLE ENERGIE WATTIGNIES 3
- 4Métropole Européenne de LilleWattignies holds 2 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 Wattignies municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frederic Faucomprez | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Maryse Moreaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Luc Hincelin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Florence Vaast | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christophe Planquart | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Martine Waymel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Benoit Moreau | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Helene Legrand | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Alain Butin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Julie Koustanaï | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Frederic Faucomprez | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Maryse Moreaux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Luc Hincelin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Florence Vaast | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Christophe Planquart | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Martine Waymel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Benoit Moreau | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Helene Legrand | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Alain Butin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Julie Koustanaï | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Benoit Badier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Brohard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Carpentier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Caëcke | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Dherbecourt | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Claude Domzalski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Gosset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion Guihard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Guilloton-Valluis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoit Hazebrouck | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Francine Herbaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mohamed Jendar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Le Roux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Lemay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sacha Loison | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tourria Mouquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rigobert Ngounou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabine Nieuwjaer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Pollet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Pottier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Smets | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Taisne | 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 Wattignies, above.
How Wattignies voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,080 votes cast for a list
5,161 of 9,687 registered voters in Wattignies voted.
42 blank and 39 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,074 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,184 of 9,687 registered voters in Wattignies voted.
63 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.
Wattignies spends €1,145 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
Wattignies owed €6.1M at the end of 2025, €383 per resident, lower than in 80% of compared French communes, equal to 37% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,145 | €105 | €383 | €6.1M |
| 2024 | €1,383 | €346 | €361 | €5.7M |
| 2023 | €1,325 | €321 | €281 | €4.4M |
| 2022 | €1,086 | €71 | €324 | €4.9M |
| 2021 | €1,077 | €123 | €369 | €5.5M |
| 2020 | €1,013 | €85 | €411 | €6.1M |
| 2019 | €1,111 | €149 | €450 | €6.6M |
| 2018 | €1,286 | €366 | €500 | €7.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 3rd 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: Castanet-Tolosan, €245. Highest: Roquebrune-sur-Argens, €1,853.
Have a say in Wattignies
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 Wattignies 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 Wattignies’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Wattignies?
Frederic Faucomprez, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Wattignies have?
The Wattignies municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Wattignies?
WATTIGNIES C'EST VOUS POUR VOUS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.3% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Wattignies?
53.5% 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 Wattignies?
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 Wattignies have?
€6.1M at the end of 2025, €383 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Wattignies part of?
Wattignies 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.