Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · Public domainCalais carries more debt per resident than 89% of compared communes
Natacha Bouchart has been mayor of Calais since March 22, 2026, elected by the 49 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Se battre pour Calais won 41 of the 49 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 60.1% of the votes. Calais is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Calais Terres et Mers.
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 Calais’s town hall
Won in the first round
Se battre pour Calais won 60.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 6 lists stood. It took 41 of the 49 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.6% of registered voters in Calais voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 76% 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
Calais owed €104.7M at the end of 2025, €1,534 per resident: higher than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 104% 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.
- Se battre pour Calais4121 community seats
- Unis pour Calais !74 community seats
- Calais à gauche toute - Union Populaire, Ecologique et Sociale10 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 Calais 25 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Calais Terres et Mers (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: Natacha Bouchart · 49 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, 2026Natacha Bouchart
- 2Deputy mayors14 adjoints, elected by the councilFaustine MaliarFrédéric HenotCaroline MatratPascal PestreStéphanie RigauxLadislas LozanoFrédérique Van RooyJulien Cordenos+6 more
- 3Calais municipal council49 seats by listSe battre pour Calais 41 · Unis pour Calais ! 7 · Calais à gauche toute - Union Populaire, Ecologique et Sociale 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Grand Calais Terres et MersCalais holds 25 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 49 members of the Calais municipal council
The mayor and 14 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Natacha Bouchart | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Faustine Maliar | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Henot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Matrat | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Pestre | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Rigaux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ladislas Lozano | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Van Rooy | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Cordenos | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nora Errazi | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Mignonet | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Janique Fontaine | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ezedine Kara | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Malika Bouazzi | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Finot | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (49)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Natacha Bouchart | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Faustine Maliar | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Henot | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Matrat | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Pestre | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Rigaux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ladislas Lozano | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédérique Van Rooy | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Cordenos | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Nora Errazi | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Mignonet | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Janique Fontaine | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ezedine Kara | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Malika Bouazzi | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Finot | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Alexandre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Baheux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Françoise Boyaval | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Willy Buttez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Céline Couliou | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Darré | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marc de Fleurian | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Delanghe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Demaret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Devin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Denis Domain | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Josiane Ducorroy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Gardin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvain Jore | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dorothée Lachevre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aline Lannoy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Lannoy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvain Lapotre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Edwige Leblond | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Francis Lebon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Delphine Ledoux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Lenoir | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Leroy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Théo Leveleux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Louis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Lyoen | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie-Laurence Macquaert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Jacques Mansard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Guilaine Mouchon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Josiane Mouchon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Pille | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cyril Pollet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Erwann Ryckmann | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Muriel Stankowiak | 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 Calais, above.
How Calais voted in March 2026
6 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
25,663 votes cast for a list
26,123 of 51,631 registered voters in Calais voted.
237 blank and 223 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.
Calais spends €1,976 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
Calais owed €104.7M at the end of 2025, €1,534 per resident, higher than in 89% of compared French communes, equal to 104% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,976 | €503 | €1,534 | €104.7M |
| 2024 | €1,942 | €401 | €1,431 | €97.3M |
| 2023 | €1,743 | €306 | €1,400 | €95.4M |
| 2022 | €1,644 | €286 | €1,424 | €104.1M |
| 2021 | €1,703 | €380 | €1,433 | €105.4M |
| 2020 | €1,621 | €339 | €1,434 | €107M |
| 2019 | €1,630 | €343 | €1,412 | €106.9M |
| 2018 | €1,596 | €364 | €1,276 | €97.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th 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: Issy-les-Moulineaux, €225. Highest: Levallois-Perret, €3,685.
Have a say in Calais
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 Calais 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 Calais’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Calais?
Natacha Bouchart, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Calais have?
The Calais municipal council has 49 members, the mayor and 14 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Calais?
Se battre pour Calais, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 60.1% of the votes; it holds 41 of the 49 seats.
What was the turnout in Calais?
50.6% 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 Calais?
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 Calais have?
€104.7M at the end of 2025, €1,534 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Calais part of?
Calais is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Calais Terres et Mers, 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.