Photo: Duch.gege · CC BY-SA 4.0Le Lude invested less per resident in 2025 than 89% of compared communes
René de Nicolay has been mayor of Le Lude since March 22, 2026, elected by the 30 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Ecouter et Agir pour le Renouveau won 27 of the 29 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 80.1% of the votes. Le Lude is part of the Communauté de communes Sud Sarthe.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Sarthe and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Le Lude’s town hall
Won in the first round
Ecouter et Agir pour le Renouveau won 80.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 27 of the 29 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 2. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
65.8% of registered voters in Le Lude voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 87% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Sarthe was 55.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Le Lude owed €4.8M at the end of 2025, €1,179 per resident: higher than in 78% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 86% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Le Lude invested €177 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 11% of its spending: lower than in 89% 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.
- Ecouter et Agir pour le Renouveau277 community seats
- Batir tous ensemble notre avenir20 community seats
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 Le Lude 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Sud Sarthe (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: René de Nicolay · 30 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, 2026René de Nicolay
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilChristophe MaudetHélène Le BiezJordan AuclaireMyriam LerouxOlivier CorbinSonia PottierJonathan Loistron
- 3Le Lude municipal council29 seats by listEcouter et Agir pour le Renouveau 27 · Batir tous ensemble notre avenir 2
- 4Communauté de communes Sud SartheLe Lude 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 30 members of the Le Lude municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| René de Nicolay | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Maudet | Maire délégué | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Maudet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Le Biez | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jordan Auclaire | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Leroux | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Corbin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Pottier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jonathan Loistron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (30)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| René de Nicolay | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Maudet | Maire délégué | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Maudet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Le Biez | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jordan Auclaire | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Leroux | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Corbin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sonia Pottier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jonathan Loistron | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Rachel Amato | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Flavien Beauce | Conseiller municipal | March 19, 2026 |
| Monika Breton | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandra Cogné | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine de Nicolay | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martine Desvignes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nicolas Dufrene | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Franck Israël-Alexandre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Le Gallet | Conseiller municipal | March 21, 2026 |
| Ophélie Lebouil | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mélanie Loiseau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sonia Maquere | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Monnier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Nourry | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Michel Néron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrice Oger | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Martine Papin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jimmy Remars | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brigitte Roger-Dubly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Annie Tilly | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Tricot | 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 Le Lude, above.
How Le Lude voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
2,068 votes cast for a list
2,166 of 3,294 registered voters in Le Lude voted.
50 blank and 48 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.
Le Lude spends €1,544 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
Le Lude owed €4.8M at the end of 2025, €1,179 per resident, higher than in 78% of compared French communes, equal to 86% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,544 | €177 | €1,179 | €4.8M |
| 2024 | €1,871 | €495 | €1,277 | €5.2M |
| 2023 | €2,005 | €704 | €1,260 | €5.3M |
| 2022 | €1,524 | €321 | €1,275 | €5.4M |
| 2021 | €1,674 | €511 | €1,197 | €5.1M |
| 2020 | €1,401 | €291 | €1,052 | €4.6M |
| 2019 | €1,431 | €402 | €1,140 | €5M |
| 2018 | €1,300 | €307 | €1,219 | €5.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 12th 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: Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, €57. Highest: Pléneuf-Val-André, €3,635.
Have a say in Le Lude
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 Le Lude 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 Le Lude’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Le Lude?
René de Nicolay, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Le Lude have?
The Le Lude municipal council has 30 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Le Lude?
Ecouter et Agir pour le Renouveau, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 80.1% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Le Lude?
65.8% 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 Le Lude?
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 Le Lude have?
€4.8M at the end of 2025, €1,179 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Le Lude part of?
Le Lude is part of the Communauté de communes Sud Sarthe, 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.