In Ardres, turnout beat 92% of compared French communes
Ludovic Loquet has been mayor of Ardres since March 27, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CAP VERS 2033 won 20 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.9% of the votes. Ardres is part of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Pas-de-Calais and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Ardres’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, CAP VERS 2033 came first with 46.9% and took 20 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
67.4% of registered voters in Ardres voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 92% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pas-de-Calais was 58.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Ardres owed €5.5M at the end of 2025, €1,246 per resident: higher than in 80% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 123% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Ardres invested €735 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 42% of its spending: higher than in 85% 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.
- CAP VERS 2033206 community seats
- Osons l'avenir ensemble51 community seat
- PARTAGEONS DEMAIN À ARDRES !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 Ardres 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale (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: Ludovic Loquet · 27 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, 2026Ludovic Loquet
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilGilles CottrezSylvie BonniereJoël VanderpotteSophie VanhaeckeFrédéric FeysMarie-Hélène LabreLudovic BarouxChantal Brissaud
- 3Ardres municipal council27 seats by listCAP VERS 2033 20 · Osons l'avenir ensemble 5 · PARTAGEONS DEMAIN À ARDRES ! 2
- 4Communauté de communes Pays d'OpaleArdres holds 7 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 27 members of the Ardres municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Ludovic Loquet | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Cottrez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Bonniere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joël Vanderpotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Vanhaecke | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Feys | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Labre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ludovic Baroux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Chantal Brissaud | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Ludovic Loquet | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Cottrez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sylvie Bonniere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joël Vanderpotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Vanhaecke | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Feys | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Labre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ludovic Baroux | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Chantal Brissaud | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Rebecca Barbier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélien Deharte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| René Demassieux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Desfachelles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Devos | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ewen Frelechoux--Tronscorff | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Henault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Hubert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Laidet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Lannoy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maxime Lefief | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Quentin Louis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion Moreau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Quentin Paternoster | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Puget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Renaut | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Roger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Coralie Thiry | 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 Ardres, above.
How Ardres voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,453 votes cast for a list
2,480 of 3,630 registered voters in Ardres voted.
12 blank and 15 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,419 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,445 of 3,629 registered voters in Ardres voted.
14 blank and 12 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.
Ardres spends €1,750 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
Ardres owed €5.5M at the end of 2025, €1,246 per resident, higher than in 80% of compared French communes, equal to 123% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,750 | €735 | €1,246 | €5.5M |
| 2024 | €1,412 | €473 | €1,133 | €5M |
| 2023 | €1,236 | €277 | €1,001 | €4.5M |
| 2022 | €1,440 | €536 | €643 | €2.9M |
| 2021 | €1,014 | €171 | €729 | €3.2M |
| 2020 | €884 | €83 | €809 | €3.6M |
| 2019 | €1,345 | €507 | €940 | €4.2M |
| 2018 | €1,357 | €498 | €755 | €3.3M |
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: Truchtersheim, €1. Highest: Millas, €2,231.
Have a say in Ardres
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 Ardres 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 Ardres’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Ardres?
Ludovic Loquet, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Ardres have?
The Ardres municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Ardres?
CAP VERS 2033, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.9% of the votes; it holds 20 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Ardres?
67.4% 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 Ardres?
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 Ardres have?
€5.5M at the end of 2025, €1,246 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Ardres part of?
Ardres is part of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale, 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.