Castres carries more debt per resident than 95% of compared communes
Florian Azéma has been mayor of Castres since March 27, 2026, elected by the 43 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, POUR L'AVENIR DE CASTRES won 28 of the 43 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 29.9% of the votes. Castres is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Castres Mazamet.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Tarn and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Castres’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, POUR L'AVENIR DE CASTRES came first with 29.9% and took 28 of the 43 seats; the other lists share the remaining 15. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Castres owed €86.5M at the end of 2025, €1,963 per resident: higher than in 95% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 144% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Castres invested €243 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 15% of its spending: lower than in 78% 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.
- POUR L'AVENIR DE CASTRES2820 community seats
- CASTRES, NOTRE VILLE53 community seats
- UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR CASTRES53 community seats
- CASTRES EN COMMUN !32 community seats
- CASTRES AU COEUR21 community seat
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 Castres 29 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Castres Mazamet (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: Florian Azéma · 43 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, 2026Florian Azéma
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Paul PilozVirginie CallejonStephane CrottesAurélie CatherinChristian AmielPascale DidelonJérôme GuyJustyne Bugeard+4 more
- 3Castres municipal council43 seats by listPOUR L'AVENIR DE CASTRES 28 · CASTRES, NOTRE VILLE 5 · UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR CASTRES 5 · CASTRES EN COMMUN ! 3 · CASTRES AU COEUR 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Castres MazametCastres holds 29 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 43 members of the Castres municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florian Azéma | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Piloz | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Virginie Callejon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stephane Crottes | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Catherin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christian Amiel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Didelon | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérôme Guy | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Justyne Bugeard | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maxime Caron | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Isabelle Landes | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Loris Aldebert | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Béatrice Guillot | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (43)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Florian Azéma | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Piloz | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Virginie Callejon | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stephane Crottes | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Aurélie Catherin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christian Amiel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Didelon | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérôme Guy | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Justyne Bugeard | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Maxime Caron | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Isabelle Landes | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Loris Aldebert | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Béatrice Guillot | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marine Michèle Nolwen Albarao | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Didier Amalvy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillaume Arcese | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Bardy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Léo Barthes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sahel Beriouni Poitevineau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Melvin Bonnery Lamarque | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Bories | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Bourdet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Bousquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eve Bugis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Capo Ortega | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sharon Caty | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marion David | Conseiller municipal | April 24, 2026 |
| Marc Debuchy-Maffre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Desplas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Antoine Escande | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-France Fabre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Houx | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Jury | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-José Labessouille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mayeul Laborde | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cirene Paparotti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Parrat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Rayssiguie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Ros | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Magdolna Sarosi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Sebbag | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vaimihi Tapii | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Viala | 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 Castres, above.
How Castres voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
17,833 votes cast for a list
18,249 of 30,619 registered voters in Castres voted.
180 blank and 236 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
16,741 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
17,383 of 30,623 registered voters in Castres voted.
185 blank and 457 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.
Castres spends €1,602 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
Castres owed €86.5M at the end of 2025, €1,963 per resident, higher than in 95% of compared French communes, equal to 144% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,602 | €243 | €1,963 | €86.5M |
| 2024 | €1,623 | €272 | €1,998 | €88M |
| 2023 | €1,653 | €325 | €2,002 | €87.8M |
| 2022 | €1,662 | €384 | €2,009 | €87.5M |
| 2021 | €1,543 | €345 | €2,004 | €86.7M |
| 2020 | €1,455 | €285 | €2,005 | €86.4M |
| 2019 | €1,612 | €387 | €2,060 | €88.4M |
| 2018 | €1,607 | €385 | €2,016 | €86.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Marcq-en-Barœul, €0. Highest: Bagnolet, €3,250.
Have a say in Castres
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 Castres 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 Castres’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Castres?
Florian Azéma, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Castres have?
The Castres municipal council has 43 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Castres?
POUR L'AVENIR DE CASTRES, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 29.9% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 43 seats.
What was the turnout in Castres?
56.8% 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 Castres?
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 Castres have?
€86.5M at the end of 2025, €1,963 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Castres part of?
Castres is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Castres Mazamet, 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.