Alençon carries less debt per resident than 87% of compared communes
Sophie Douvry has been mayor of Alençon since March 22, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Avec Sophie Douvry - Alençon Réussit ! won 27 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.6% of the votes. Alençon is part of the Communauté urbaine d'Alençon.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Orne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Alençon’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Avec Sophie Douvry - Alençon Réussit ! came first with 46.6% and took 27 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
49.7% of registered voters in Alençon voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 79% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Orne was 57.6%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Alençon owed €7.6M at the end of 2025, €290 per resident: lower than in 87% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 27% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- Avec Sophie Douvry - Alençon Réussit !2720 community seats
- RETROUVER ALENÇON33 community seats
- ALENCON avec VOUS32 community seats
- GAUCHE UNIE22 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 Alençon 27 seats on the council of the Communauté urbaine d'Alençon (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: Sophie Douvry · 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, 2026Sophie Douvry
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilPhilippe DrillonEmilie BourgesBenoît ViletteCatherine BoittinJean-David DesforgesCarine MaunouryJordan CarreauIsabelle Jupin+2 more
- 3Alençon municipal council35 seats by listAvec Sophie Douvry - Alençon Réussit ! 27 · RETROUVER ALENÇON 3 · ALENCON avec VOUS 3 · GAUCHE UNIE 2
- 4Communauté urbaine d'AlençonAlençon holds 27 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 Alençon municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sophie Douvry | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Drillon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emilie Bourges | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Vilette | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Boittin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-David Desforges | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Carine Maunoury | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jordan Carreau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Jupin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Tarik Guner | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Ivon | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sophie Douvry | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Drillon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Emilie Bourges | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoît Vilette | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Boittin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-David Desforges | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Carine Maunoury | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jordan Carreau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Jupin | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Tarik Guner | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Ivon | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maximilienne Andzama | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Piers Barrios | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanessa Bournel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatima Braïki | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Buguet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Counil | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Morgane Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Séverine Gahéry | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Gallerand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lucas Girard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Simon Gouyer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Johnny Lafresnaye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Lampérière | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Le Picard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Lepinay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Mathieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Monsallier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Pelois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Oscar Piloquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mickaël Raineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Solé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florent Tarlie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kaira Tenain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Trouillot | 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 Alençon, above.
How Alençon voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
7,377 votes cast for a list
7,560 of 15,088 registered voters in Alençon voted.
88 blank and 95 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
7,323 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
7,492 of 15,084 registered voters in Alençon voted.
101 blank and 68 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.
Alençon spends €1,471 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
Alençon owed €7.6M at the end of 2025, €290 per resident, lower than in 87% of compared French communes, equal to 27% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,471 | €387 | €290 | €7.6M |
| 2024 | €1,472 | €387 | €336 | €8.8M |
| 2023 | €1,250 | €256 | €380 | €10.1M |
| 2022 | €1,140 | €230 | €411 | €10.9M |
| 2021 | €1,104 | €229 | €476 | €12.6M |
| 2020 | €1,206 | €326 | €512 | €13.6M |
| 2019 | €1,431 | €497 | €536 | €14.6M |
| 2018 | €1,472 | €607 | €325 | €8.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Sèvremoine, €60. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Alençon
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 Alençon 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 Alençon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Alençon?
Sophie Douvry, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Alençon have?
The Alençon municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Alençon?
Avec Sophie Douvry - Alençon Réussit !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.6% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Alençon?
49.7% 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 Alençon?
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 Alençon have?
€7.6M at the end of 2025, €290 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Alençon part of?
Alençon is part of the Communauté urbaine d'Alençon, 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.