Photo: Drong~commonswiki · CC BY-SA 4.0Rivesaltes invested less per resident in 2025 than 93% of compared communes
Julien Potel has been mayor of Rivesaltes since March 28, 2026, elected by the 29 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRAND won 21 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.9% of the votes. Rivesaltes is part of the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole.
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 Rivesaltes’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRAND came first with 44.9% and took 21 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.4% of registered voters in Rivesaltes voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 89% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pyrénées-Orientales was 64%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Little investment
Rivesaltes invested €144 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 8% of its spending: lower than in 93% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRAND212 community seats
- UN NOUVEL ELAN POUR RIVESALTES50 community seats
- RIVESALTES A VENIR30 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 Rivesaltes 2 seats on the council of the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole (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: Julien Potel · 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 28, 2026Julien Potel
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilMatthieu CanetSylvanie ChauviereJean-Louis PlaneillesCarole BenitahMaxime LloubesJoséphine MesasFranck MarquesMaïté Palagos
- 3Rivesaltes municipal council29 seats by listRIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRAND 21 · UN NOUVEL ELAN POUR RIVESALTES 5 · RIVESALTES A VENIR 3
- 4Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée MétropoleRivesaltes holds 2 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 Rivesaltes municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Julien Potel | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Canet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvanie Chauviere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Planeilles | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Benitah | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maxime Lloubes | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Joséphine Mesas | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Marques | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maïté Palagos | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (29)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Julien Potel | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Canet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylvanie Chauviere | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Planeilles | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Carole Benitah | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maxime Lloubes | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Joséphine Mesas | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Marques | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maïté Palagos | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sébastien Barcelo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marjorie Calabuig | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lauralee Canel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Cases | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Aurélie Dissard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Esther Fita | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Gauze | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Lajarrige | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Letellier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Marin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexis Moreno | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Ortéga | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amélie Parraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Priego | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Audrey Quiles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurianne Rawcliffe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antonia Ruiz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marlène Sanchez Bouix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Farid Sid | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Valquenart | 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 Rivesaltes, above.
How Rivesaltes voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,542 votes cast for a list
4,630 of 6,742 registered voters in Rivesaltes voted.
48 blank and 40 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,356 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,451 of 6,702 registered voters in Rivesaltes voted.
49 blank and 46 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.
Rivesaltes spends €1,702 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
Rivesaltes owed €8.2M at the end of 2025, €881 per resident, higher than in 61% of compared French communes, equal to 57% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,702 | €144 | €881 | €8.2M |
| 2024 | €1,471 | €171 | €986 | €9.1M |
| 2023 | €1,660 | €355 | €1,020 | €9.3M |
| 2022 | €1,664 | €370 | €1,136 | €10.3M |
| 2021 | €1,485 | €292 | €1,043 | €9.3M |
| 2020 | €1,568 | €371 | €1,194 | €10.5M |
| 2019 | €1,452 | €334 | €1,101 | €9.7M |
| 2018 | €1,731 | €487 | €1,087 | €9.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th 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: Molsheim, €0. Highest: Évian-les-Bains, €2,917.
Have a say in Rivesaltes
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 Rivesaltes 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 Rivesaltes’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Rivesaltes?
Julien Potel, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Rivesaltes have?
The Rivesaltes municipal council has 29 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Rivesaltes?
RIVESALTES, L'AVENIR EN GRAND, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 44.9% of the votes; it holds 21 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Rivesaltes?
66.4% 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 Rivesaltes?
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 Rivesaltes have?
€8.2M at the end of 2025, €881 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Rivesaltes part of?
Rivesaltes is part of the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole, 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.