Graulhet invested less per resident in 2025 than 84% of compared communes
Benjamin Verdeil has been mayor of Graulhet since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE, FAIRE GAGNER GRAULHET ! won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.8% of the votes. Graulhet is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Gaillac-Graulhet.
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 Graulhet’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, ENSEMBLE, FAIRE GAGNER GRAULHET ! came first with 53.8% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Graulhet owed €13.9M at the end of 2025, €1,029 per resident: higher than in 70% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 119% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Graulhet invested €209 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 19% of its spending: lower than in 84% 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.
- ENSEMBLE, FAIRE GAGNER GRAULHET !2610 community seats
- GRAULHET EN GRAND73 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 Graulhet 13 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Gaillac-Graulhet (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: Benjamin Verdeil · 33 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, 2026Benjamin Verdeil
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilLouisa Kaouane-MetahriJean-Luc CathalauBéatrice VicenteVincent TerrassiéDanièle MaximilienPascal Robert-ColsLeslie Lanau
- 3Graulhet municipal council33 seats by listENSEMBLE, FAIRE GAGNER GRAULHET ! 26 · GRAULHET EN GRAND 7
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Gaillac-GraulhetGraulhet holds 13 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 33 members of the Graulhet municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Verdeil | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Louisa Kaouane-Metahri | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Cathalau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Béatrice Vicente | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Terrassié | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Danièle Maximilien | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Robert-Cols | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Leslie Lanau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Verdeil | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Louisa Kaouane-Metahri | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Cathalau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Béatrice Vicente | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Vincent Terrassié | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Danièle Maximilien | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Robert-Cols | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Leslie Lanau | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Aubès | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Saliha Aït Aïssa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Bacou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kader Belmaaziz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Bes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Bonnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Cathalau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Boris Cortijos | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céu Da Costa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joël Delmas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Dilé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Etienne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Etienne Gay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Gayraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Haymes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Lacazedieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Lluch-Sala | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marine Maleplate | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pedro Marques | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jules Montels | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Camille Poujol Maffre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Annick Povoa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thérésa Rajaoarisoa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Roques | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Vaurs | 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 Graulhet, above.
How Graulhet voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
5,523 votes cast for a list
5,750 of 9,602 registered voters in Graulhet voted.
110 blank and 117 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,467 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
5,619 of 9,597 registered voters in Graulhet voted.
72 blank and 80 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.
Graulhet spends €1,075 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
Graulhet owed €13.9M at the end of 2025, €1,029 per resident, higher than in 70% of compared French communes, equal to 119% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,075 | €209 | €1,029 | €13.9M |
| 2024 | €996 | €133 | €1,039 | €13.9M |
| 2023 | €993 | €106 | €1,057 | €13.9M |
| 2022 | €1,069 | €195 | €1,100 | €14.4M |
| 2021 | €884 | €78 | €1,086 | €14.2M |
| 2020 | €856 | €72 | €1,153 | €14.8M |
| 2019 | €884 | €95 | €1,440 | €18.5M |
| 2018 | €836 | €36 | €1,437 | €18.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 18th 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: Genas, €30. Highest: Val-de-Reuil, €2,834.
Have a say in Graulhet
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 Graulhet 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 Graulhet’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Graulhet?
Benjamin Verdeil, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Graulhet have?
The Graulhet municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Graulhet?
ENSEMBLE, FAIRE GAGNER GRAULHET !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.8% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Graulhet?
58.6% 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 Graulhet?
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 Graulhet have?
€13.9M at the end of 2025, €1,029 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Graulhet part of?
Graulhet is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Gaillac-Graulhet, 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.