Béthune carries more debt per resident than 86% of compared communes
Olivier Gacquerre has been mayor of Béthune since March 21, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, PROCHE DE VOUS, FORTS ENSEMBLE won 30 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.1% of the votes. Béthune is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane.
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 Béthune’s town hall
Won in the first round
PROCHE DE VOUS, FORTS ENSEMBLE won 65.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 4 lists stood. It took 30 of the 35 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
Béthune owed €36.6M at the end of 2025, €1,424 per resident: higher than in 86% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 88% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Béthune invested €201 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 11% of its spending: lower than in 86% 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.
- PROCHE DE VOUS, FORTS ENSEMBLE3011 community seats
- UN MEILLEUR AVENIR POUR BÉTHUNE41 community seat
- Mieux, autrement, ensemble pour Béthune10 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 Béthune 12 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane (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: Olivier Gacquerre · 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 21, 2026Olivier Gacquerre
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilPierre-Emmanuel GibsonGinette LoiseauHakim ElazouziDelphine TavernierJean Pascal ScaloneMaryse BertouxFrancis CordonnierAnnie Boulart+2 more
- 3Béthune municipal council35 seats by listPROCHE DE VOUS, FORTS ENSEMBLE 30 · UN MEILLEUR AVENIR POUR BÉTHUNE 4 · Mieux, autrement, ensemble pour Béthune 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys RomaneBéthune holds 12 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 Béthune municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Gacquerre | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Gibson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ginette Loiseau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Hakim Elazouzi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Delphine Tavernier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean Pascal Scalone | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Maryse Bertoux | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Francis Cordonnier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Annie Boulart | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrick Perrin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie-Odile Hoinville Duweltz | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Gacquerre | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Gibson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Ginette Loiseau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Hakim Elazouzi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Delphine Tavernier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean Pascal Scalone | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Maryse Bertoux | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Francis Cordonnier | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Annie Boulart | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Patrick Perrin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Marie-Odile Hoinville Duweltz | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jérémy Bentivegna | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Béatrice Berroyer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Manon Bloemen | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christian Bothorel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Corentin Brige | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Capelle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélinda Chochoi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gaëtan Clerbout | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Decanter | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fatimata Dia | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Doualle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain-Eric Dubart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David Garel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Gaucher | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Catherine Gottrand | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Quentin Hanique | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre Kwartnik | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alexandre Maeseele | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Caroline Parmentier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Petitpas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Pons | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Gwendoline Robillard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Camille Senechal | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Thoré | 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 Béthune, above.
How Béthune voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
9,585 votes cast for a list
9,751 of 17,684 registered voters in Béthune voted.
88 blank and 78 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.
Béthune spends €1,815 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
Béthune owed €36.6M at the end of 2025, €1,424 per resident, higher than in 86% of compared French communes, equal to 88% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,815 | €201 | €1,424 | €36.6M |
| 2024 | €1,788 | €195 | €1,497 | €37.9M |
| 2023 | €1,865 | €244 | €1,643 | €41.6M |
| 2022 | €1,912 | €317 | €1,670 | €42.4M |
| 2021 | €1,900 | €419 | €1,675 | €42.8M |
| 2020 | €1,989 | €510 | €1,829 | €46.1M |
| 2019 | €2,243 | €722 | €1,820 | €46.9M |
| 2018 | €1,791 | €300 | €1,857 | €47.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Rodez, €33. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Béthune
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 Béthune 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 Béthune’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Béthune?
Olivier Gacquerre, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Béthune have?
The Béthune municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Béthune?
PROCHE DE VOUS, FORTS ENSEMBLE, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 65.1% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Béthune?
55.1% 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 Béthune?
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 Béthune have?
€36.6M at the end of 2025, €1,424 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Béthune part of?
Béthune is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane, 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.