Carpentras carries more debt per resident than 98% of compared communes
Hervé de Lépinau has been mayor of Carpentras since March 27, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Pour Carpentras ! won 30 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.8% of the votes. Carpentras is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE).
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 Carpentras’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, Pour Carpentras ! came first with 50.8% and took 30 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Carpentras owed €86.5M at the end of 2025, €2,742 per resident: higher than in 98% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 194% 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.
- Pour Carpentras !3018 community seats
- Nous sommes tous Carpentras53 community seats
- Ensemble, fiers de Carpentras avec Serge Andrieu43 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 Carpentras 24 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE) (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: Hervé de Lépinau · 39 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, 2026Hervé de Lépinau
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilPascale DemuruJean IssartierLaurence BigottePierre BourdellesNathalie TournierBertrand de La ChesnaisIsabelle EvrardThierry d'Aigremont+2 more
- 3Carpentras municipal council39 seats by listPour Carpentras ! 30 · Nous sommes tous Carpentras 5 · Ensemble, fiers de Carpentras avec Serge Andrieu 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE)Carpentras holds 24 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 39 members of the Carpentras municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé de Lépinau | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Demuru | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean Issartier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Bigotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Bourdelles | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Tournier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bertrand de La Chesnais | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Isabelle Evrard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry d'Aigremont | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laetitia Colomb | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jihad Meroueh | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Hervé de Lépinau | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Demuru | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean Issartier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laurence Bigotte | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pierre Bourdelles | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nathalie Tournier | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bertrand de La Chesnais | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Isabelle Evrard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry d'Aigremont | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Laetitia Colomb | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jihad Meroueh | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Francis Adolphe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Serge Andrieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Aouadi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Louis Barthélémy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Botella-Mondet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Bouyac | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Brouat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charles Catilina | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pauline Cittadini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélina Dieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Défossé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Fischer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludovic Gravier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Grima | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gabriel Hulewicz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Jaillard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Lemaignan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Marra | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Medeschini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Antonio Mena Dominguez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Olive | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Prost | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Sener | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Océane Seunot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernadette Tombarello | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Truc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeanne Ventura | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Vigneron | 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 Carpentras, above.
How Carpentras voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
11,853 votes cast for a list
12,118 of 20,427 registered voters in Carpentras voted.
123 blank and 142 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,844 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,046 of 20,430 registered voters in Carpentras voted.
117 blank and 85 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.
Carpentras spends €1,723 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
Carpentras owed €86.5M at the end of 2025, €2,742 per resident, higher than in 98% of compared French communes, equal to 194% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,723 | €308 | €2,742 | €86.5M |
| 2024 | €1,768 | €377 | €2,776 | €87.3M |
| 2023 | €1,762 | €372 | €2,736 | €83.6M |
| 2022 | €1,827 | €489 | €2,846 | €85.2M |
| 2021 | €1,779 | €488 | €2,941 | €86.9M |
| 2020 | €1,824 | €423 | €2,342 | €68.3M |
| 2019 | €1,899 | €555 | €3,101 | €91.5M |
| 2018 | €1,710 | €516 | €2,684 | €79.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 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: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, €257. Highest: Carpentras, €2,742.
Have a say in Carpentras
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 Carpentras 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 Carpentras’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Carpentras?
Hervé de Lépinau, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Carpentras have?
The Carpentras municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Carpentras?
Pour Carpentras !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 50.8% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Carpentras?
54.1% 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 Carpentras?
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 Carpentras have?
€86.5M at the end of 2025, €2,742 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Carpentras part of?
Carpentras is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE), 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.