Hyères carries less debt per resident than 92% of compared communes
Véronique Bernardini has been mayor of Hyères since March 28, 2026, elected by the 45 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, HYERES ENSEMBLE AVEC VERONIQUE BERNARDINI won 34 of the 45 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.8% of the votes. Hyères is part of the Métropole Toulon-Provence-Méditerranée.
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 Hyères’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, HYERES ENSEMBLE AVEC VERONIQUE BERNARDINI came first with 48.8% and took 34 of the 45 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Hyères owed €11.7M at the end of 2025, €208 per resident: lower than in 92% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 15% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Hyères invested €630 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 31% of its spending: higher 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.
- HYERES ENSEMBLE AVEC VERONIQUE BERNARDINI349 community seats
- POUR HYERES ET LES HYEROIS51 community seat
- L'AVENIR HYEROIS31 community seat
- HYERES AVENIR30 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 Hyères 11 seats on the council of the Métropole Toulon-Provence-Méditerranée (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: Véronique Bernardini · 45 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 28, 2026Véronique Bernardini
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilGrégory AudibertKarine TropiniFlorent BacciRaphaëlle CarrassanDominique NivaggioliMartine Claramunt-AgostaÉric MartinCatherine Politi+4 more
- 3Hyères municipal council45 seats by listHYERES ENSEMBLE AVEC VERONIQUE BERNARDINI 34 · POUR HYERES ET LES HYEROIS 5 · L'AVENIR HYEROIS 3 · HYERES AVENIR 3
- 4Métropole Toulon-Provence-MéditerranéeHyères holds 11 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 45 members of the Hyères municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Véronique Bernardini | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Grégory Audibert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Karine Tropini | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florent Bacci | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Raphaëlle Carrassan | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Nivaggioli | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Claramunt-Agosta | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Éric Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Politi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Agosta | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Geneviève Noël-Burki | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mourad Bouakkadia | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Richard | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (45)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Véronique Bernardini | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Grégory Audibert | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Karine Tropini | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florent Bacci | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Raphaëlle Carrassan | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Dominique Nivaggioli | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Martine Claramunt-Agosta | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Éric Martin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Catherine Politi | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Agosta | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Geneviève Noël-Burki | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mourad Bouakkadia | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Richard | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Valerie Battesti | Conseiller municipal | May 29, 2026 |
| Frédéric Bertrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ollivier Bouisset | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kali Bouziane | Conseiller municipal | May 18, 2026 |
| Nathalie Bruno Trouve | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Bruzzichessi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Buvat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Cacaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Castel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Franck Chauvet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marie-Laure Collin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Cornileau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Delcroix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Di Ciaccio | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Eynard-Tomatis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Robert Eyraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Widad Ferjani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Ferré | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sebastien Fratellia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Girard | Conseiller municipal | May 18, 2026 |
| Pascal Goletto | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Guyard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Kiss | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Mana | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Martin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Massuco | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maria Metalnikoff | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lia Petit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathieu Rossolini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Roy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederic Valentin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Victori | 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 Hyères, above.
How Hyères voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
23,344 votes cast for a list
23,882 of 40,703 registered voters in Hyères voted.
271 blank and 267 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
23,135 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
23,617 of 40,700 registered voters in Hyères voted.
249 blank and 233 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.
Hyères spends €2,001 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
Hyères owed €11.7M at the end of 2025, €208 per resident, lower than in 92% of compared French communes, equal to 15% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,001 | €630 | €208 | €11.7M |
| 2024 | €1,840 | €513 | €251 | €14.1M |
| 2023 | €1,705 | €421 | €310 | €17.2M |
| 2022 | €1,646 | €363 | €359 | €20M |
| 2021 | €1,584 | €393 | €421 | €23.6M |
| 2020 | €1,508 | €337 | €471 | €26.6M |
| 2019 | €1,751 | €537 | €511 | €29M |
| 2018 | €2,027 | €608 | €528 | €30.4M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Saint-Herblain, €81. Highest: Massy, €2,750.
Have a say in Hyères
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 Hyères 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 Hyères’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Hyères?
Véronique Bernardini, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Hyères have?
The Hyères municipal council has 45 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Hyères?
HYERES ENSEMBLE AVEC VERONIQUE BERNARDINI, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.8% of the votes; it holds 34 of the 45 seats.
What was the turnout in Hyères?
58% 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 Hyères?
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 Hyères have?
€11.7M at the end of 2025, €208 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Hyères part of?
Hyères is part of the Métropole Toulon-Provence-Méditerranée, 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.