In Orange, the council took a second round
Jean-Dominique Artaud has been mayor of Orange since March 27, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, S'unir pour Orange won 24 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 35.8% of the votes. Orange is part of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orange en Provence.
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 Orange’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, S'unir pour Orange came first with 35.8% and took 24 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Orange owed €12.8M at the end of 2025, €426 per resident: lower than in 77% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 35% 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.
- S'unir pour Orange2413 community seats
- Bompard nous maintiendrons 202663 community seats
- Carole Normani 202653 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 Orange 19 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orange en Provence (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: Jean-Dominique Artaud · 35 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, 2026Jean-Dominique Artaud
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilAnnick BadorJean-Pierre PaseroFrédérique VidalNicolas ArnouxChristine MartinFlorent AgroMarie-Thérèse GalmardDenis Sabon+2 more
- 3Orange municipal council35 seats by listS'unir pour Orange 24 · Bompard nous maintiendrons 2026 6 · Carole Normani 2026 5
- 4Communauté de communes Pays d'Orange en ProvenceOrange holds 19 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 35 members of the Orange municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Dominique Artaud | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Annick Bador | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Pasero | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédérique Vidal | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Arnoux | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christine Martin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florent Agro | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Thérèse Galmard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Denis Sabon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Jeanjean | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Drapier | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Dominique Artaud | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Annick Bador | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Pasero | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédérique Vidal | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Nicolas Arnoux | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Christine Martin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Florent Agro | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-Thérèse Galmard | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Denis Sabon | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Agnès Jeanjean | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Drapier | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jonathan Argenson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcelle Arsac | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Aumage | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Beyneix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Bompard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alphonse Bourret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fernando Caro | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Linda Costa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Hélène Dalbiès | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joëlle Eickmayer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Claude Fremery | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Gaspa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Gastou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jeannine Goudet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Brigitte Laouriga | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Peggy Leleu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Lesterlan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Xavier Marquot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| David Marseille | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Carole Normani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Oliveira | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Robin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stefana Tesu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Trousse | 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 Orange, above.
How Orange voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
10,881 votes cast for a list
11,188 of 19,691 registered voters in Orange voted.
307 blank and 0 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,829 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,129 of 19,677 registered voters in Orange voted.
300 blank and 0 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.
Orange spends €1,694 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
Orange owed €12.8M at the end of 2025, €426 per resident, lower than in 77% of compared French communes, equal to 35% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,694 | €490 | €426 | €12.8M |
| 2024 | €1,768 | €575 | €455 | €13.4M |
| 2023 | €1,801 | €550 | €259 | €7.5M |
| 2022 | €1,580 | €436 | €1 | €42K |
| 2021 | €1,389 | €401 | €1 | €39K |
| 2020 | €1,284 | €296 | €1 | €29K |
| 2019 | €1,535 | €439 | €1 | €37K |
| 2018 | €1,436 | €345 | €1 | €31K |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 5th 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-Sébastien-sur-Loire, €88. Highest: Maubeuge, €3,481.
Have a say in Orange
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 Orange 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 Orange’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Orange?
Jean-Dominique Artaud, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Orange have?
The Orange municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Orange?
S'unir pour Orange, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 35.8% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Orange?
56.6% 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 Orange?
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 Orange have?
€12.8M at the end of 2025, €426 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Orange part of?
Orange is part of the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orange en Provence, 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.