In Carcès, turnout beat 88% of compared French communes
Alain Ravanello has been mayor of Carcès since March 30, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CARCES EN AVANT won 20 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.7% of the votes. Carcès is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Var and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Carcès’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, CARCES EN AVANT came first with 46.7% and took 20 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.2% of registered voters in Carcès voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 88% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Var was 59.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- CARCES EN AVANT202 community seats
- VIVONS CARCES60 community seats
- UN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR CARCÈS10 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 Carcès 2 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte (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: Alain Ravanello · 27 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 30, 2026Alain Ravanello
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilJohn BrispotAmandine ChiapelloJoseph HerbelYvette TorriDylan WasteelsColette PeybernesPatrick SchmittSandrine Guiot-Picquart
- 3Carcès municipal council27 seats by listCARCES EN AVANT 20 · VIVONS CARCES 6 · UN NOUVEAU SOUFFLE POUR CARCÈS 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence VerteCarcès 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 27 members of the Carcès municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alain Ravanello | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| John Brispot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Amandine Chiapello | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Joseph Herbel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Yvette Torri | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Dylan Wasteels | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Colette Peybernes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Patrick Schmitt | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Sandrine Guiot-Picquart | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alain Ravanello | Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| John Brispot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Amandine Chiapello | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Joseph Herbel | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Yvette Torri | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Dylan Wasteels | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Colette Peybernes | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Patrick Schmitt | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Sandrine Guiot-Picquart | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 30, 2026 |
| Isabelle Alena | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederic Ambard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karl Brun | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Clavier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie Clement-Passoni | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Corino | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Ferretto-Reggi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Janvier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Marche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dimitri Mondon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Prael | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stephanie Prieur | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Milena Rousseau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Georges Steffan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Vermand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stanislas Waroux | 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 Carcès, above.
How Carcès voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,008 votes cast for a list
2,045 of 3,019 registered voters in Carcès voted.
23 blank and 14 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,943 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,997 of 3,017 registered voters in Carcès voted.
27 blank and 27 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.
Carcès spends €1,400 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
Carcès owed €2.8M at the end of 2025, €790 per resident, higher than in 54% of compared French communes, equal to 71% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,400 | €289 | €790 | €2.8M |
| 2024 | €1,432 | €318 | €864 | €3M |
| 2023 | €1,287 | €339 | €943 | €3.3M |
| 2022 | €1,233 | €333 | €1,010 | €3.5M |
| 2021 | €1,122 | €233 | €1,038 | €3.6M |
| 2020 | €1,630 | €187 | €1,057 | €3.7M |
| 2019 | €1,599 | €487 | €831 | €2.9M |
| 2018 | €1,261 | €193 | €898 | €3.2M |
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: Messimy, €3. Highest: Deauville, €4,267.
Have a say in Carcès
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 Carcès 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 Carcès’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Carcès?
Alain Ravanello, mayor since March 30, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Carcès have?
The Carcès municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Carcès?
CARCES EN AVANT, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.7% of the votes; it holds 20 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Carcès?
66.2% 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 Carcès?
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 Carcès have?
€2.8M at the end of 2025, €790 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Carcès part of?
Carcès is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte, 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.