Sorgues carries less debt per resident than 85% of compared communes
Thierry Lagneau has been mayor of Sorgues since March 22, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Sorgues passionnement won 30 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 77.3% of the votes. Sorgues is part of the Communauté d'agglomération des Sorgues du Comtat.
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 Sorgues’s town hall
Won in the first round
Sorgues passionnement won 77.3% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 30 of the 33 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 3. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.1% of registered voters in Sorgues voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 74% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Vaucluse was 61%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Sorgues owed €6M at the end of 2025, €313 per resident: lower than in 85% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 24% 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.
- Sorgues passionnement3014 community seats
- Sorgues, un autre avenir32 community seats
As elected in the first round, March 15, 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 Sorgues 16 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération des Sorgues du Comtat (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: Thierry Lagneau · 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 22, 2026Thierry Lagneau
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilStéphane GarciaSylviane FerraroBernard RigeadeChristelle PepinFabien PaillouxJacqueline DevosJean-François LaportePatricia Courtier+1 more
- 3Sorgues municipal council33 seats by listSorgues passionnement 30 · Sorgues, un autre avenir 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération des Sorgues du ComtatSorgues holds 16 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 Sorgues municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thierry Lagneau | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Garcia | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylviane Ferraro | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Rigeade | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Pepin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Pailloux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Devos | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Laporte | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Courtier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Riou | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Thierry Lagneau | Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Stéphane Garcia | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylviane Ferraro | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Rigeade | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Pepin | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Pailloux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Devos | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-François Laporte | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Patricia Courtier | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Riou | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Attuel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Frédéric Aulas | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Barra | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David Bellucci | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Clément Cambier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Magali Charmet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cindy Clop Minaud-Guibert | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Cordier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Eymard Wilson | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Virginie Feybesse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cyrille Gaillard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| François Koenig | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Lagneau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| David-Alexandre Le Gall | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jaouad Marboh | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Évelyne Matheron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Vanessa Onic | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphane Puig | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Manon Reig | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Reynier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle Roca | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Florian Roume | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Roux | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 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 Sorgues, above.
How Sorgues voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
6,796 votes cast for a list
6,994 of 13,697 registered voters in Sorgues voted.
138 blank and 60 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.
Sorgues spends €1,618 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
Sorgues owed €6M at the end of 2025, €313 per resident, lower than in 85% of compared French communes, equal to 24% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,618 | €330 | €313 | €6M |
| 2024 | €1,687 | €394 | €249 | €4.8M |
| 2023 | €1,477 | €200 | €289 | €5.5M |
| 2022 | €1,467 | €291 | €326 | €6.2M |
| 2021 | €1,376 | €235 | €266 | €5.1M |
| 2020 | €1,473 | €314 | €797 | €15.1M |
| 2019 | €1,634 | €413 | €224 | €4.2M |
| 2018 | €1,482 | €288 | €200 | €3.7M |
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: Hem, €2. Highest: Sanary-sur-Mer, €2,752.
Have a say in Sorgues
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 Sorgues 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 Sorgues’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Sorgues?
Thierry Lagneau, mayor since March 22, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Sorgues have?
The Sorgues municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Sorgues?
Sorgues passionnement, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 77.3% of the votes; it holds 30 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Sorgues?
51.1% 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 Sorgues?
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 Sorgues have?
€6M at the end of 2025, €313 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Sorgues part of?
Sorgues is part of the Communauté d'agglomération des Sorgues du Comtat, 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.