In Méru, the council took a second round
Abdelafid Mokhtari has been mayor of Méru since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, TOUJOURS ENSEMBLE POUR MÉRU won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52% of the votes. Méru is part of the Communauté de communes des Sablons.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Oise and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Méru’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, TOUJOURS ENSEMBLE POUR MÉRU came first with 52% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.8% of registered voters in Méru voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 72% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Oise was 54.2%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- TOUJOURS ENSEMBLE POUR MÉRU2612 community seats
- Méru en action63 community seats
- OSONS MÉRU10 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 Méru 15 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes des Sablons (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: Abdelafid Mokhtari · 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 27, 2026Abdelafid Mokhtari
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilPhilippe KiessamessoAldjia DahmounHugues de LéonLine CourvilleGeorges ChampenoisFrançoise ÉtiennePhilippe VigneronEstelle Lapierre+1 more
- 3Méru municipal council33 seats by listTOUJOURS ENSEMBLE POUR MÉRU 26 · Méru en action 6 · OSONS MÉRU 1
- 4Communauté de communes des SablonsMéru holds 15 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 Méru municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Abdelafid Mokhtari | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Kiessamesso | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aldjia Dahmoun | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hugues de Léon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Line Courville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Champenois | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Françoise Étienne | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Vigneron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Estelle Lapierre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvain Tamburro | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Abdelafid Mokhtari | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Kiessamesso | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aldjia Dahmoun | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hugues de Léon | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Line Courville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Georges Champenois | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Françoise Étienne | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Vigneron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Estelle Lapierre | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvain Tamburro | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Waïl Aboulfath-Idrissi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Boiget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mustapha Charef | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Croisic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Depuille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Derhé Spoor | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mactar Diop | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadège Divialle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Faliex | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Faudois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ilham Hamcha | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nelly Hanotte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mauriac De Ronsard Kaboulou Likibi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yolande Kayilua Mabasi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Langlois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Leblanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Ledard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Lenoble | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adrien Madec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anna Nationalité Finlandaise Michel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Pierrel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre-Jacques Romec | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kelly Marie Neera Victoire | 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 Méru, above.
How Méru voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,157 votes cast for a list
4,261 of 8,220 registered voters in Méru voted.
54 blank and 50 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,145 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,258 of 8,215 registered voters in Méru voted.
65 blank and 48 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.
Méru spends €1,575 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
Méru owed €12.3M at the end of 2025, €866 per resident, higher than in 60% of compared French communes, equal to 67% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,575 | €277 | €866 | €12.3M |
| 2024 | €1,513 | €300 | €887 | €12.9M |
| 2023 | €1,500 | €246 | €868 | €12.6M |
| 2022 | €1,709 | €519 | €828 | €12.1M |
| 2021 | €1,532 | €429 | €842 | €12.5M |
| 2020 | €1,293 | €266 | €768 | €11.4M |
| 2019 | €1,427 | €354 | €822 | €12.2M |
| 2018 | €1,354 | €320 | €772 | €11.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 21st 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: Berre-l'Étang, €1. Highest: Juvignac, €1,919.
Have a say in Méru
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 Méru 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 Méru’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Méru?
Abdelafid Mokhtari, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Méru have?
The Méru municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Méru?
TOUJOURS ENSEMBLE POUR MÉRU, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 52% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Méru?
51.8% 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 Méru?
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 Méru have?
€12.3M at the end of 2025, €866 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Méru part of?
Méru is part of the Communauté de communes des Sablons, 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.