La Garde carries less debt per resident than 84% of compared communes
Hélène Arnaud Bill has been mayor of La Garde since March 27, 2026, elected by the 34 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, La Garde ensemble ! won 24 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 38.3% of the votes. La Garde 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 La Garde’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, La Garde ensemble ! came first with 38.3% and took 24 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
La Garde owed €8.9M at the end of 2025, €336 per resident: lower than in 84% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 23% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
La Garde invested €683 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 32% of its spending: higher than in 81% 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.
- La Garde ensemble !244 community seats
- MAîTRISONS NOTRE AVENIR61 community seat
- UNIS POUR LA GARDE50 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 La Garde 5 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: Hélène Arnaud Bill · 34 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, 2026Hélène Arnaud Bill
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilJean-Louis MassonMarie-Hélène CharlesFranck ChouquetMartine BlancJean-Eric LodevicSophie OurdouilliéAlain JouotJanig Gué+2 more
- 3La Garde municipal council35 seats by listLa Garde ensemble ! 24 · MAîTRISONS NOTRE AVENIR 6 · UNIS POUR LA GARDE 5
- 4Métropole Toulon-Provence-MéditerranéeLa Garde holds 5 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 34 members of the La Garde municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hélène Arnaud Bill | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Masson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Charles | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Franck Chouquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Blanc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Eric Lodevic | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Ourdouillié | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alain Jouot | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Janig Gué | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florian Jonet | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Céline Murena | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (34)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hélène Arnaud Bill | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Louis Masson | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Hélène Charles | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Franck Chouquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Martine Blanc | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Eric Lodevic | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sophie Ourdouillié | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Alain Jouot | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Janig Gué | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florian Jonet | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Céline Murena | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sébastien Alba | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Amarit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Anneville | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Bado | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bouchra Barham | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| André Baulon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Josiane Bercet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Broyer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Séverine Caumon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Charlois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Viviane Chastant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Choutet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bruno Ducarre | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Maxence Goualin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Flora Martino | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Morillion | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Pastor Maglio | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julia Peironet Bremond | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Peisse | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alexandre Rossi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Salsou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Henri Santi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Zanella | 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 La Garde, above.
How La Garde voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
11,559 votes cast for a list
11,765 of 20,223 registered voters in La Garde voted.
102 blank and 104 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
11,300 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,567 of 20,216 registered voters in La Garde voted.
155 blank and 112 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.
La Garde spends €2,113 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
La Garde owed €8.9M at the end of 2025, €336 per resident, lower than in 84% of compared French communes, equal to 23% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,113 | €683 | €336 | €8.9M |
| 2024 | €2,147 | €673 | €360 | €9.4M |
| 2023 | €1,976 | €526 | €374 | €9.7M |
| 2022 | €1,933 | €591 | €390 | €10.1M |
| 2021 | €1,596 | €340 | €406 | €10.4M |
| 2020 | €1,459 | €226 | €423 | €10.8M |
| 2019 | €1,890 | €601 | €414 | €10.6M |
| 2018 | €2,131 | €685 | €479 | €12.2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th 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: Sèvremoine, €60. Highest: Biarritz, €2,321.
Have a say in La Garde
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 La Garde 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 La Garde’s town hall
Who is the mayor of La Garde?
Hélène Arnaud Bill, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does La Garde have?
The La Garde municipal council has 34 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in La Garde?
La Garde ensemble !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 38.3% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in La Garde?
57.2% 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 La Garde?
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 La Garde have?
€8.9M at the end of 2025, €336 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is La Garde part of?
La Garde 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.