How is Méricourt run?
Fabrice Planque has been mayor of Méricourt since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE POUR MERICOURT 2026 won 26 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.2% of the votes. Méricourt 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- ENSEMBLE POUR MERICOURT 2026263 community seats
- MERICOURT LE RENOUVEAU !71 community seat
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 Méricourt 4 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: Fabrice Planque · 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 22, 2026Fabrice Planque
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilOlivier LelieuxLudivine PlouvierLaurent DucampLatifa Aït AbderrafiiJérôme FleurantPatricia PinguetPierre BoufflersAurore Choquet+1 more
- 3Méricourt municipal council33 seats by listENSEMBLE POUR MERICOURT 2026 26 · MERICOURT LE RENOUVEAU ! 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Lens - LiévinMéricourt holds 4 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 Méricourt municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrice Planque | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Lelieux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Plouvier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Ducamp | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Latifa Aït Abderrafii | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Fleurant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Pinguet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Boufflers | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurore Choquet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Laour | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrice Planque | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Lelieux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Plouvier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Ducamp | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Latifa Aït Abderrafii | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Fleurant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Pinguet | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Boufflers | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurore Choquet | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Laour | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeanine Balcerek | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernard Baude | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nancy Bodescot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cindy Boquet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Bourel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julie Caron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Coquart | Conseiller municipal | April 29, 2026 |
| Laurent Dassonville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Dupire | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Dupont | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascale Hunet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Salem L'Aabd | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Denis Lecroart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Maxime Lepoivre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Maligno | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Herve Michalak | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Michaux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Olivier Paillard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Pijanowski | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| José Pringarbe | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Adeline Serville | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Flavio Spatafora | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Tome | 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 Méricourt, above.
How Méricourt voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,940 votes cast for a list
5,051 of 8,844 registered voters in Méricourt voted.
76 blank and 35 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.
Méricourt spends €1,515 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
Méricourt owed €9.6M at the end of 2025, €820 per resident, higher than in 56% of compared French communes, equal to 67% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,515 | €288 | €820 | €9.6M |
| 2024 | €1,488 | €211 | €796 | €9.1M |
| 2023 | €1,423 | €211 | €793 | €9.1M |
| 2022 | €1,438 | €232 | €754 | €8.5M |
| 2021 | €1,407 | €302 | €705 | €8M |
| 2020 | €1,386 | €308 | €695 | €7.9M |
| 2019 | €1,657 | €621 | €651 | €7.7M |
| 2018 | €1,416 | €414 | €684 | €8.1M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 19th 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: Hœnheim, €1. Highest: Briançon, €3,762.
Have a say in Méricourt
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 Méricourt 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 Méricourt’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Méricourt?
Fabrice Planque, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Méricourt have?
The Méricourt municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Méricourt?
ENSEMBLE POUR MERICOURT 2026, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 57.2% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Méricourt?
57.1% 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 Méricourt?
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 Méricourt have?
€9.6M at the end of 2025, €820 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Méricourt part of?
Méricourt 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.