Photo: David Brossard · CC BY-SA 2.0Le Mans invested less per resident in 2025 than 90% of compared communes
Stéphane Le Foll has been mayor of Le Mans since March 27, 2026, elected by the 55 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLE won 42 of the 55 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes. Le Mans is part of the Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole.
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 Mans’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 7 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLE came first with 50.1% and took 42 of the 55 seats; the other lists share the remaining 13. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.5% of registered voters in Le Mans voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 73% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Sarthe was 55.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Little investment
Le Mans invested €167 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 13% of its spending: lower than in 90% 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.
- LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLE4228 community seats
- Union pour Le Mans64 community seats
- Rassemblement pour Le Mans43 community seats
- LE MANS NOUVEAU CAP32 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 Le Mans 37 seats on the council of the Communauté urbaine Le Mans 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: Stéphane Le Foll · 55 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 27, 2026Stéphane Le Foll
- 2Deputy mayors16 adjoints, elected by the councilCécile LerouxChristophe CounilSophie MoisyYves CalippeMarie-Julie Loyer-LemercierChristian LacosteChristine PoupineauNordine Arik+8 more
- 3Le Mans municipal council55 seats by listLE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLE 42 · Union pour Le Mans 6 · Rassemblement pour Le Mans 4 · LE MANS NOUVEAU CAP 3
- 4Communauté urbaine Le Mans MétropoleLe Mans holds 37 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 55 members of the Le Mans municipal council
The mayor and 16 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphane Le Foll | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile Leroux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Counil | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Moisy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Calippe | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Julie Loyer-Lemercier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christian Lacoste | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christine Poupineau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nordine Arik | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lydia Hamonou-Boiroux | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michaël Guihard | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francine Baudon-Brulé | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Cigana | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Brulé-Delahaye | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathan Châron | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yolaine Chappuis-Yard | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Quentin Portier | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (55)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphane Le Foll | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile Leroux | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christophe Counil | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Moisy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yves Calippe | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Julie Loyer-Lemercier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christian Lacoste | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christine Poupineau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nordine Arik | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lydia Hamonou-Boiroux | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michaël Guihard | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francine Baudon-Brulé | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Serge Cigana | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Brulé-Delahaye | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathan Châron | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Yolaine Chappuis-Yard | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Quentin Portier | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Blandine Affagard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Avril | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benoit Barret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludivine Bommert-Ménard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Imane Bounouh | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Brasseur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Muriel Cabaret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Daniel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Victoria de Vigneral | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Muriel Desnoues | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Edouard Dione | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fatiha Dubois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Abdelmajid El Arrasse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mouride Fouéré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Gambiez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Gier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Giudice | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samuel Guy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rabea-Nadia Houfi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Magali Hubert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marietta Karamanli | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Renée Kaziewicz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Lagarde | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Lautru | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Le Corre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Lechat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mickaël Lecossier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Loubier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rémi Marchand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Merle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kamel Meziti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Philippe Monteil | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Marie Olivo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joël Pannetier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Péneaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Sasso | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Tafforeau-Hardy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Onur Yilmaz | 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 Le Mans, above.
How Le Mans voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
43,427 votes cast for a list
44,344 of 91,974 registered voters in Le Mans voted.
917 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
46,371 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
47,303 of 91,945 registered voters in Le Mans voted.
932 blank and 0 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 Mans spends €1,309 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 Mans owed €87.1M at the end of 2025, €589 per resident, lower than in 64% of compared French communes, equal to 52% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,309 | €167 | €589 | €87.1M |
| 2024 | €1,353 | €206 | €593 | €87.7M |
| 2023 | €1,355 | €194 | €593 | €87.8M |
| 2022 | €1,354 | €223 | €553 | €81.1M |
| 2021 | €1,206 | €142 | €504 | €73.7M |
| 2020 | €1,178 | €171 | €516 | €75.2M |
| 2019 | €1,190 | €153 | €481 | €70.6M |
| 2018 | €1,113 | €116 | €480 | €70.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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: Brest, €234. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Le Mans
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 Mans 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 Mans’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Le Mans?
Stéphane Le Foll, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Le Mans have?
The Le Mans municipal council has 55 members, the mayor and 16 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Le Mans?
LE MANS NOUS RASSEMBLE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.1% of the votes; it holds 42 of the 55 seats.
What was the turnout in Le Mans?
51.5% 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 Mans?
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 Mans have?
€87.1M at the end of 2025, €589 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Le Mans part of?
Le Mans is part of the Communauté urbaine Le Mans 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.