How is Oignies run?
François Vial has been mayor of Oignies since March 29, 2026, elected by the 31 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, OIGNIES POUR VOUS won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.8% of the votes. Oignies is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Hénin-Carvin.
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.
- OIGNIES POUR VOUS264 community seats
- UNIS POUR OIGNIES71 community seat
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 Oignies 5 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Hénin-Carvin (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: François Vial · 31 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 29, 2026François Vial
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Pascal DumaisnilCeline BrixPhilippe VanhauteNathalie FelskiGuillaume VaillantHelene RongeatJeremy Wattiez
- 3Oignies municipal council33 seats by listOIGNIES POUR VOUS 26 · UNIS POUR OIGNIES 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération d'Hénin-CarvinOignies holds 5 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 31 members of the Oignies municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| François Vial | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jean-Pascal Dumaisnil | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Celine Brix | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Vanhaute | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nathalie Felski | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Guillaume Vaillant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Helene Rongeat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jeremy Wattiez | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (31)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| François Vial | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jean-Pascal Dumaisnil | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Celine Brix | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Vanhaute | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nathalie Felski | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Guillaume Vaillant | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Helene Rongeat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jeremy Wattiez | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Angelina Acier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stephanie Becu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandra Bensalem | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elodie Coquelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicole Craye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Delhaye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clement Dotte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Dupuis-Merlevede | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Durot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rachid Echahba | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Perrine Leblond | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Loez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Justine Meurillon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Jacques Michalak | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mireille Milleville | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Murczak | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Raphael Namur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadir Nemraoui | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Oleszak | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Telle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvain Van Lombergen | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Vancraeyneste | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Ziane-Coget | 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 Oignies, above.
How Oignies voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,257 votes cast for a list
4,378 of 7,026 registered voters in Oignies voted.
60 blank and 61 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
3,874 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,958 of 7,024 registered voters in Oignies voted.
42 blank and 42 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.
Oignies spends €1,471 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
Oignies owed €8.2M at the end of 2025, €797 per resident, higher than in 54% of compared French communes, equal to 70% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,471 | €331 | €797 | €8.2M |
| 2024 | €1,432 | €280 | €880 | €9M |
| 2023 | €1,974 | €875 | €772 | €7.9M |
| 2022 | €1,578 | €471 | €854 | €8.6M |
| 2021 | €1,159 | €202 | €520 | €5.1M |
| 2020 | €1,173 | €224 | €580 | €5.7M |
| 2019 | €1,104 | €139 | €639 | €6.2M |
| 2018 | €1,139 | €163 | €696 | €6.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Villers-Cotterêts, €0. Highest: Ploërmel, €2,408.
Have a say in Oignies
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 Oignies 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 Oignies’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Oignies?
François Vial, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Oignies have?
The Oignies municipal council has 31 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Oignies?
OIGNIES POUR VOUS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.8% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Oignies?
56.4% 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 Oignies?
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 Oignies have?
€8.2M at the end of 2025, €797 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Oignies part of?
Oignies is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Hénin-Carvin, 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.