How is Vedène run?
Joël Guin has been mayor of Vedène since March 20, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Vedène au coeur won 26 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 52.4% of the votes. Vedène 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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- Vedène au coeur263 community seats
- Vedène d'abord !51 community seat
- Vedène autrement10 community seats
- Vedène à venir10 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 Vedène 4 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: Joël Guin · 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 20, 2026Joël Guin
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilMartine DurieuCharly HerveChantal GottraJean-Marc BorieNathalie HeddebauxLuc FaureAgnès Thomas
- 3Vedène municipal council33 seats by listVedène au coeur 26 · Vedène d'abord ! 5 · Vedène autrement 1 · Vedène à venir 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA)Vedène holds 4 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 Vedène municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joël Guin | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Durieu | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Charly Herve | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Chantal Gottra | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Borie | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nathalie Heddebaux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Luc Faure | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Agnès Thomas | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joël Guin | Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Martine Durieu | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Charly Herve | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Chantal Gottra | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Borie | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Nathalie Heddebaux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Luc Faure | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Agnès Thomas | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 20, 2026 |
| Christophe Alpi | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Coralie Arsac | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| William Boffa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Audrey Bolo | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Magali Brion | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Lydie Capeau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eva Casaccoli | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Cavalier | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Aurore Chanty | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fernand Dall'Orso | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Quentin David | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laetitia Esteve | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Geoffrey Fallami | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Donovan Gachon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Giraud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cyril Guarinos | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alain Lorient | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Maire | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sébastien Makowski | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Marcovecchio | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rose-Marie Ortigosa | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Eric Point | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marine Ricci-Jean | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabienne Vera | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Isabelle Wolff | 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 Vedène, above.
How Vedène voted in March 2026
4 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
4,914 votes cast for a list
5,005 of 8,792 registered voters in Vedène voted.
59 blank and 32 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.
Vedène spends €1,606 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
Vedène owed €10.7M at the end of 2025, €886 per resident, higher than in 61% of compared French communes, equal to 68% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,606 | €299 | €886 | €10.7M |
| 2024 | €1,681 | €380 | €1,004 | €11.9M |
| 2023 | €1,605 | €424 | €784 | €9.2M |
| 2022 | €1,307 | €152 | €787 | €9.2M |
| 2021 | €1,307 | €148 | €878 | €10.1M |
| 2020 | €1,264 | €149 | €943 | €11M |
| 2019 | €1,632 | €544 | €1,003 | €11.8M |
| 2018 | €1,407 | €302 | €831 | €9.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 11th 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: Hœnheim, €1. Highest: Saint-Cyprien, €2,586.
Have a say in Vedène
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 Vedène 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 Vedène’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Vedène?
Joël Guin, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Vedène have?
The Vedène municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Vedène?
Vedène au coeur, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 52.4% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Vedène?
56.9% 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 Vedène?
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 Vedène have?
€10.7M at the end of 2025, €886 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Vedène part of?
Vedène 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.