Sanary-sur-Mer carries more debt per resident than 98% of compared communes
Philippe Heno has been mayor of Sanary-sur-Mer since March 29, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Philippe HENO avec NOUS SANARYENS won 25 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.2% of the votes. Sanary-sur-Mer is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume.
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 Sanary-sur-Mer’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 5 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Philippe HENO avec NOUS SANARYENS came first with 46.2% and took 25 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Sanary-sur-Mer owed €50.1M at the end of 2025, €2,752 per resident: higher than in 98% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 147% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Sanary-sur-Mer invested €1,300 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 41% of its spending: higher than in 97% 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.
- Philippe HENO avec NOUS SANARYENS2510 community seats
- J'AIME SANARY62 community seats
- ENSEMBLE POUR SANARY21 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 Sanary-sur-Mer 13 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume (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: Philippe Heno · 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 29, 2026Philippe Heno
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilDominique IvanezPhilippe PrangeElisabeth MoserPierre SegondCarole de PerettiGilles CrespinCatherine BayardStephane Bovero+1 more
- 3Sanary-sur-Mer municipal council33 seats by listPhilippe HENO avec NOUS SANARYENS 25 · J'AIME SANARY 6 · ENSEMBLE POUR SANARY 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte BaumeSanary-sur-Mer 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 Sanary-sur-Mer municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Heno | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Ivanez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Prange | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Moser | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pierre Segond | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Carole de Peretti | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Gilles Crespin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Catherine Bayard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stephane Bovero | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Caroline Albertini-Spasaro | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe Heno | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Dominique Ivanez | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Prange | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Moser | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Pierre Segond | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Carole de Peretti | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Gilles Crespin | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Catherine Bayard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stephane Bovero | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Caroline Albertini-Spasaro | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Catherine Alix Berenger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laetitia Batté | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Baud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adam Bellalah | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Boin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Clement | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Coche-Degrassat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Johann Craisson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Fogli | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sophie Foulon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Garcia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Gonet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anaïs Grimal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fiona Heitz | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Claude Ielpo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Magnin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roland Moutte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Nader | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tony Roger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Szpiczak | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bastien Tissier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Vallet | Conseiller municipal | March 23, 2026 |
| Claudia Vitel | 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 Sanary-sur-Mer, above.
How Sanary-sur-Mer voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
8,833 votes cast for a list
9,079 of 16,119 registered voters in Sanary-sur-Mer voted.
169 blank and 77 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
8,908 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
9,073 of 16,118 registered voters in Sanary-sur-Mer voted.
111 blank and 54 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.
Sanary-sur-Mer spends €3,174 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
Sanary-sur-Mer owed €50.1M at the end of 2025, €2,752 per resident, higher than in 98% of compared French communes, equal to 147% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €3,174 | €1,300 | €2,752 | €50.1M |
| 2024 | €3,103 | €1,282 | €3,762 | €65.9M |
| 2023 | €2,382 | €629 | €3,783 | €66M |
| 2022 | €2,436 | €670 | €4,132 | €70.9M |
| 2021 | €2,959 | €1,232 | €4,313 | €73.1M |
| 2020 | €2,672 | €1,006 | €4,252 | €71.6M |
| 2019 | €2,266 | €574 | €4,373 | €74.3M |
| 2018 | €2,557 | €786 | €4,501 | €73.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd 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: Écully, €0. Highest: Carvin, €3,332.
Have a say in Sanary-sur-Mer
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 Sanary-sur-Mer 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 Sanary-sur-Mer’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Sanary-sur-Mer?
Philippe Heno, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Sanary-sur-Mer have?
The Sanary-sur-Mer municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Sanary-sur-Mer?
Philippe HENO avec NOUS SANARYENS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.2% of the votes; it holds 25 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Sanary-sur-Mer?
56.3% 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 Sanary-sur-Mer?
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 Sanary-sur-Mer have?
€50.1M at the end of 2025, €2,752 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Sanary-sur-Mer part of?
Sanary-sur-Mer is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume, 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.