Avignon carries more debt per resident than 97% of compared communes
Olivier Galzi has been mayor of Avignon since March 28, 2026, elected by the 53 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Le bon sens pour Avignon won 38 of the 53 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 40.6% of the votes. Avignon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA).
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Vaucluse and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Avignon’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, Le bon sens pour Avignon came first with 40.6% and took 38 of the 53 seats; the other lists share the remaining 15. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
47.7% of registered voters in Avignon voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 84% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Vaucluse was 61%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Avignon owed €216M at the end of 2025, €2,318 per resident: higher than in 97% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 133% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- Le bon sens pour Avignon3824 community seats
- Ensemble et solidaires107 community seats
- Avignon en avant !53 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 Avignon 34 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA) (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: Olivier Galzi · 53 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, 2026Olivier Galzi
- 2Deputy mayors20 adjoints, elected by the councilCorinne ChatriotJean-Luc QueylaEmmanuelle Roux-PanisMichel AdamLaetitia DosneLaurent RochutVioleta LukicNicolas Donnadille+12 more
- 3Avignon municipal council53 seats by listLe bon sens pour Avignon 38 · Ensemble et solidaires 10 · Avignon en avant ! 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA)Avignon holds 34 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 53 members of the Avignon municipal council
The mayor and 20 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Galzi | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Corinne Chatriot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Queyla | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Roux-Panis | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Adam | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laetitia Dosne | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Rochut | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Violeta Lukic | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Donnadille | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Simone Vidal | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Xavier Bourgue | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nezha Moummed | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Bruey | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Anaïs Hausmann | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florian Borba Da Costa | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Djamila Bouras | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Peytié | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Altayrac | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bertrand Dessaud-Delaye | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michèle Nesme | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mattéo Boso | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
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| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier Galzi | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Corinne Chatriot | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean-Luc Queyla | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Roux-Panis | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Adam | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laetitia Dosne | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Laurent Rochut | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Violeta Lukic | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nicolas Donnadille | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Simone Vidal | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Xavier Bourgue | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nezha Moummed | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Bruey | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Anaïs Hausmann | 13ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Florian Borba Da Costa | 14ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Djamila Bouras | 15ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Eric Peytié | 16ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Isabelle Altayrac | 17ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bertrand Dessaud-Delaye | 18ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michèle Nesme | 19ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Mattéo Boso | 20ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie-Anne Bertrand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyrine Blanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rémy Blanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Carles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryline Croyet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Dosne | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Fournier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Fuchs | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne Gagniard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marc Gonzalez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Grimaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Zinèbe Haddaoui | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samira Hamoussa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Virginie Issautier-Nocca | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claude Le Roy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Louvain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Murielle Magdeleine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Amandine Marquis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Martines | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michael Mc Manus-Schouchana | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Corinne Moulin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Paly | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Matthias Papet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mouloud Rezouali | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Rigault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Oukacha Rtili | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Viviane Savoye | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charline Savreux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Sokolowski | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabrice Tocabens | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Annabelle Vega | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Wagner | 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 Avignon, above.
How Avignon voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
29,142 votes cast for a list
29,852 of 58,246 registered voters in Avignon voted.
431 blank and 279 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
27,307 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
27,762 of 58,246 registered voters in Avignon voted.
302 blank and 153 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.
Avignon spends €2,303 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
Avignon owed €216M at the end of 2025, €2,318 per resident, higher than in 97% of compared French communes, equal to 133% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,303 | €560 | €2,318 | €216M |
| 2024 | €2,231 | €523 | €2,392 | €219.8M |
| 2023 | €2,126 | €481 | €2,398 | €221.3M |
| 2022 | €2,060 | €382 | €2,326 | €215.9M |
| 2021 | €1,894 | €394 | €2,294 | €214.3M |
| 2020 | €2,064 | €532 | €2,261 | €211.8M |
| 2019 | €2,000 | €564 | €2,091 | €197M |
| 2018 | €1,785 | €381 | €1,919 | €180.3M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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: Versailles, €483. Highest: Argenteuil, €3,303.
Have a say in Avignon
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 Avignon 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 Avignon’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Avignon?
Olivier Galzi, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Avignon have?
The Avignon municipal council has 53 members, the mayor and 20 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Avignon?
Le bon sens pour Avignon, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 40.6% of the votes; it holds 38 of the 53 seats.
What was the turnout in Avignon?
47.7% 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 Avignon?
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 Avignon have?
€216M at the end of 2025, €2,318 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Avignon part of?
Avignon is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA), 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.