Argentan invested less per resident in 2025 than 82% of compared communes
Emmanuel Flouvat has been mayor of Argentan since March 15, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Argentan en mouvement won 28 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.4% of the votes. Argentan is part of the Communauté de communes Terres d'Argentan Interco.
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 Argentan’s town hall
Won in the first round
Argentan en mouvement won 70.4% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 28 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Argentan owed €15.7M at the end of 2025, €1,131 per resident: higher than in 75% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 81% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Argentan invested €219 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 13% of its spending: lower 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.
- Argentan en mouvement2821 community seats
- ARGENTAN UNIS POUR DEMAIN53 community seats
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 Argentan 24 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Terres d'Argentan Interco (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: Emmanuel Flouvat · 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 15, 2026Emmanuel Flouvat
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilBrigitte ChoquetKarim HoullierLaurence JaumetBenoit HubnerIsabelle TernynckAntoine BrilletAngélique MorelRégis Eude+1 more
- 3Argentan municipal council33 seats by listArgentan en mouvement 28 · ARGENTAN UNIS POUR DEMAIN 5
- 4Communauté de communes Terres d'Argentan IntercoArgentan holds 24 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 Argentan municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Flouvat | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Choquet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Karim Houllier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Jaumet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Benoit Hubner | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Ternynck | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Brillet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Angélique Morel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Régis Eude | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Aline Dubois | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Flouvat | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Choquet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Karim Houllier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Jaumet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Benoit Hubner | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Ternynck | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Brillet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Angélique Morel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Régis Eude | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Aline Dubois | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Alexandre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Alligné | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Manon Belgrand | Conseiller municipal | March 18, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Boulent | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Caroline Bouvier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurence Cau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Chayma Chamrani | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gilles Corvée | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lucie Cottereau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Richard Desnoues | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marion Eude | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hélène Jolivet | Conseiller municipal | March 20, 2026 |
| Julian Ladame | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Stessy Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mickaël Leveau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Leveillé | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Levillain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Arnaud Menard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Véronique Onfray | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Côme Plessis-Boscher | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Thierry Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corentin Tranchant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Vautier | 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 Argentan, above.
How Argentan voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,593 votes cast for a list
4,781 of 8,745 registered voters in Argentan voted.
81 blank and 107 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.
Argentan spends €1,621 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
Argentan owed €15.7M at the end of 2025, €1,131 per resident, higher than in 75% of compared French communes, equal to 81% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,621 | €219 | €1,131 | €15.7M |
| 2024 | €1,798 | €320 | €1,208 | €16.5M |
| 2023 | €2,021 | €725 | €1,306 | €18M |
| 2022 | €1,866 | €520 | €1,049 | €14.4M |
| 2021 | €1,587 | €314 | €967 | €13.6M |
| 2020 | €1,592 | €376 | €809 | €11.5M |
| 2019 | €1,577 | €403 | €719 | €10.4M |
| 2018 | €1,332 | €199 | €639 | €9.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 10th 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: Val-de-Reuil, €2,834.
Have a say in Argentan
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 Argentan 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 Argentan’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Argentan?
Emmanuel Flouvat, mayor since March 15, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Argentan have?
The Argentan municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Argentan?
Argentan en mouvement, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.4% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Argentan?
54.7% 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 Argentan?
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 Argentan have?
€15.7M at the end of 2025, €1,131 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Argentan part of?
Argentan is part of the Communauté de communes Terres d'Argentan Interco, 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.