In Claira, turnout beat 96% of compared French communes
Marc Petit has been mayor of Claira since March 28, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CONTINUONS A CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE L'AVENIR DE CLAIRA won 21 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51% of the votes. Claira is part of the Communauté de communes Corbières Salanque Méditerranée.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Pyrénées-Orientales and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Claira’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, CONTINUONS A CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE L'AVENIR DE CLAIRA came first with 51% and took 21 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
69.6% of registered voters in Claira voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 96% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pyrénées-Orientales was 64%; 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.
- CONTINUONS A CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE L'AVENIR DE CLAIRA216 community seats
- CLAIRA 2026 L'AVENIR EN COMMUN62 community seats
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 Claira 8 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Corbières Salanque Méditerranée (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: Marc Petit · 27 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 28, 2026Marc Petit
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilIsabelle Le MoueeGuy WalczakCamille CaveribereJean PuginierJennifer DubecqJean-Louis VinciguerraMarjorie Llopis NovaroManuel Gomez
- 3Claira municipal council27 seats by listCONTINUONS A CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE L'AVENIR DE CLAIRA 21 · CLAIRA 2026 L'AVENIR EN COMMUN 6
- 4Communauté de communes Corbières Salanque MéditerranéeClaira holds 8 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 27 members of the Claira municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Petit | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Le Mouee | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Guy Walczak | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Camille Caveribere | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Puginier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jennifer Dubecq | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Vinciguerra | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marjorie Llopis Novaro | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Manuel Gomez | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Petit | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Le Mouee | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Guy Walczak | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Camille Caveribere | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Puginier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jennifer Dubecq | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Vinciguerra | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marjorie Llopis Novaro | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Manuel Gomez | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marc Baraton | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Barbé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Barrere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Louis Berruga Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Boher Thevenot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Bonnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nolwenn Duces | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nancy Déloy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Estela Metois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Robert Greffe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Grunfelder | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Guillemat | Conseiller municipal | July 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Houlné | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisa Marti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannig Merlin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Pouillaude | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Requesens | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carole Salcenach | 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 Claira, above.
How Claira voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,791 votes cast for a list
2,872 of 4,095 registered voters in Claira voted.
44 blank and 37 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,795 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,853 of 4,097 registered voters in Claira voted.
34 blank and 24 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.
Claira spends €1,213 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
Claira owed €3.4M at the end of 2025, €693 per resident, lower than in 55% of compared French communes, equal to 73% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,213 | €270 | €693 | €3.4M |
| 2024 | €1,068 | €120 | €325 | €1.5M |
| 2023 | €1,054 | €128 | €392 | €1.8M |
| 2022 | €1,049 | €163 | €456 | €2.1M |
| 2021 | €1,027 | €146 | €538 | €2.3M |
| 2020 | €826 | €41 | €604 | €2.6M |
| 2019 | €1,047 | €178 | €671 | €2.8M |
| 2018 | €1,130 | €229 | €738 | €3M |
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: Uchaud, €95. Highest: L'Île-d'Yeu, €6,002.
Have a say in Claira
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 Claira 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 Claira’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Claira?
Marc Petit, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Claira have?
The Claira municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Claira?
CONTINUONS A CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE L'AVENIR DE CLAIRA, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 51% of the votes; it holds 21 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Claira?
69.6% 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 Claira?
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 Claira have?
€3.4M at the end of 2025, €693 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Claira part of?
Claira is part of the Communauté de communes Corbières Salanque Méditerranée, 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.