Lens elected its council in the first round
Sylvain Robert has been mayor of Lens since March 22, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, LENS TOUJOURS won 30 of the 39 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes. Lens is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Lens - Liévin.
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 Lens’s town hall
Won in the first round
LENS TOUJOURS won 50.7% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 3 lists stood. It took 30 of the 39 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.2% of registered voters in Lens voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 74% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pas-de-Calais was 58.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- LENS TOUJOURS309 community seats
- ENSEMBLE SAUVONS LENS !92 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 Lens 11 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Lens - Liévin (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: Sylvain Robert · 39 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, 2026Sylvain Robert
- 2Deputy mayors14 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Pierre HanonFatima Ait-ChikhebbihPierre MazureSophie KaufmannThibault GheysensHélène CorreJean-François CecakLudivine Degouve+6 more
- 3Lens municipal council39 seats by listLENS TOUJOURS 30 · ENSEMBLE SAUVONS LENS ! 9
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Lens - LiévinLens holds 11 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 39 members of the Lens municipal council
The mayor and 14 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Robert | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Hanon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatima Ait-Chikhebbih | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Mazure | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Kaufmann | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Thibault Gheysens | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Corre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Cecak | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Degouve | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Chérif Oudjani | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Adeline David | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Farid Boukercha | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Mephu Nguifo | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Desoutter | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryse Barbaut | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Robert | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Hanon | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatima Ait-Chikhebbih | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Mazure | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Kaufmann | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Thibault Gheysens | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Corre | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Cecak | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Degouve | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Chérif Oudjani | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Adeline David | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Farid Boukercha | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Mephu Nguifo | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Christophe Desoutter | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryse Barbaut | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexis Audant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mickaël Billebault | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patricia Braet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bruno Clavet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Coroenne | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pierre-Yves Courcol | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Daubresse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Serge de Schepper | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sonia Dupuis | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Ines Essaidi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Glemba | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Lagniez | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sebastien Lannoy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédérique Lauwers | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jordan Lourdel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie May | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christiane Nion | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Francis Nycz | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maxime Ozog | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Melissa Petersen | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jonathan Ponthieu | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Armelle Roperto | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Wattier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Zavodszki | 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 Lens, above.
How Lens voted in March 2026
3 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
11,306 votes cast for a list
11,546 of 22,560 registered voters in Lens voted.
169 blank and 71 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.
Lens spends €1,888 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
Lens owed €22.5M at the end of 2025, €684 per resident, lower than in 55% of compared French communes, equal to 46% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,888 | €395 | €684 | €22.5M |
| 2024 | €1,734 | €300 | €773 | €25.4M |
| 2023 | €1,753 | €363 | €889 | €29M |
| 2022 | €1,972 | €576 | €1,035 | €32.7M |
| 2021 | €1,764 | €466 | €823 | €26.2M |
| 2020 | €1,670 | €376 | €949 | €30M |
| 2019 | €1,749 | €346 | €1,089 | €33.9M |
| 2018 | €1,913 | €550 | €1,230 | €37.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, €257. Highest: Carpentras, €2,742.
Have a say in Lens
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 Lens 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 Lens’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Lens?
Sylvain Robert, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Lens have?
The Lens municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 14 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Lens?
LENS TOUJOURS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 50.7% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Lens?
51.2% 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 Lens?
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 Lens have?
€22.5M at the end of 2025, €684 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Lens part of?
Lens is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Lens - Liévin, 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.