In Elne, the council took a second round
Steve Fortel has been mayor of Elne since March 29, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ELNE A COEUR won 22 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.1% of the votes. Elne is part of the Communauté de communes des Albères, de la Côte Vermeille et de l'Illibéris.
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 Elne’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, ELNE A COEUR came first with 48.1% and took 22 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
63.6% of registered voters in Elne voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 79% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pyrénées-Orientales was 64%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Elne owed €11.2M at the end of 2025, €1,170 per resident: higher than in 77% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 90% 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.
- ELNE A COEUR226 community seats
- ELNA ENDAVANT EN AVANT ELNE61 community seat
- ELNE AUTREMENT10 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 Elne 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes des Albères, de la Côte Vermeille et de l'Illibéris (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: Steve Fortel · 29 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, 2026Steve Fortel
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilNicolas DoumencCharlotte El FarroujiClaude BarciaLaetitia PortalesPascal FillonMartine Casas-JourdaEric DuboisMarine Macary
- 3Elne municipal council29 seats by listELNE A COEUR 22 · ELNA ENDAVANT EN AVANT ELNE 6 · ELNE AUTREMENT 1
- 4Communauté de communes des Albères, de la Côte Vermeille et de l'IllibérisElne holds 7 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 29 members of the Elne municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Fortel | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nicolas Doumenc | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Charlotte El Farrouji | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claude Barcia | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Laetitia Portales | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pascal Fillon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Martine Casas-Jourda | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Eric Dubois | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marine Macary | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Fortel | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Nicolas Doumenc | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Charlotte El Farrouji | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claude Barcia | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Laetitia Portales | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pascal Fillon | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Martine Casas-Jourda | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Eric Dubois | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marine Macary | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Abela | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anabelle Aranda | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Morgane Benoit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roland Castanier | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Agnès Cathala | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nelson Coutinho Sanches | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lola Deregnaucourt | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Abdoul Diop | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Cécile Escaro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Fajula | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Laurent Fritz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Glin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Gosa | Conseiller municipal | March 27, 2026 |
| Jessica Horta | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sabina Iglesias-Espinet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Ange Izquierdo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manuela Padern | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Pineda | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean Ribes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Trives | 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 Elne, above.
How Elne voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,121 votes cast for a list
5,228 of 7,622 registered voters in Elne voted.
42 blank and 65 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,720 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,847 of 7,619 registered voters in Elne voted.
64 blank and 63 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.
Elne spends €1,784 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
Elne owed €11.2M at the end of 2025, €1,170 per resident, higher than in 77% of compared French communes, equal to 90% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,784 | €484 | €1,170 | €11.2M |
| 2024 | €1,533 | €290 | €1,194 | €11.4M |
| 2023 | €1,395 | €172 | €1,268 | €12.1M |
| 2022 | €1,284 | €164 | €1,362 | €12.8M |
| 2021 | €1,154 | €125 | €1,456 | €13.4M |
| 2020 | €1,050 | €161 | €1,547 | €14M |
| 2019 | €1,570 | €550 | €1,683 | €15M |
| 2018 | €1,212 | €219 | €1,736 | €15.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 10th 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: Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, €44. Highest: Redon, €2,301.
Have a say in Elne
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 Elne 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 Elne’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Elne?
Steve Fortel, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Elne have?
The Elne municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Elne?
ELNE A COEUR, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.1% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Elne?
63.6% 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 Elne?
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 Elne have?
€11.2M at the end of 2025, €1,170 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Elne part of?
Elne is part of the Communauté de communes des Albères, de la Côte Vermeille et de l'Illibéris, 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.