L'Île-d'Yeu carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes
Patrice Bernard has been mayor of L'Île-d'Yeu since March 29, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, M'YEU ENSEMBLE won 22 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 59.1% of the votes.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Vendée and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about L'Île-d'Yeu’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, M'YEU ENSEMBLE came first with 59.1% and took 22 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
74.9% of registered voters in L'Île-d'Yeu voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 99% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Vendée was 60.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
L'Île-d'Yeu owed €30.2M at the end of 2025, €6,002 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 195% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
L'Île-d'Yeu invested €1,993 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 39% of its spending: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. 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.
- M'YEU ENSEMBLE22
- NOUS VOUS L'ILE5
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.
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
3 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: Patrice Bernard · 27 councilors
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 29, 2026Patrice Bernard
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilVincent RoirandCorinne RouetBernard NouryJacqueline TurbeMathieu RiouVirginie GirardYannick RivalinCamille Deconinck
- 3L'Île-d'Yeu municipal council27 seats by listM'YEU ENSEMBLE 22 · NOUS VOUS L'ILE 5
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 27 members of the L'Île-d'Yeu municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Bernard | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vincent Roirand | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Corinne Rouet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Bernard Noury | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Turbe | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mathieu Riou | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Virginie Girard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Yannick Rivalin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Camille Deconinck | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Patrice Bernard | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Vincent Roirand | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Corinne Rouet | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Bernard Noury | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Jacqueline Turbe | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Mathieu Riou | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Virginie Girard | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Yannick Rivalin | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Camille Deconinck | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Marika André | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laure Barault | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nathalie Barbotin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joanna Burgaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Chaput | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Leslie Doux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Dulon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Dupont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Louis Dupont | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Gautier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eddy Laurent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christine Le Bris | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alain Mousnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Manon Plessis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Benjamin Ratouit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maryline Sauvadet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cyril Taraud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Voisin | 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 L'Île-d'Yeu, above.
How L'Île-d'Yeu voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
3,279 votes cast for a list
3,389 of 4,448 registered voters in L'Île-d'Yeu voted.
70 blank and 40 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
3,254 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
3,330 of 4,445 registered voters in L'Île-d'Yeu voted.
37 blank and 39 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.
L'Île-d'Yeu spends €5,070 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
L'Île-d'Yeu owed €30.2M at the end of 2025, €6,002 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 195% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €5,070 | €1,993 | €6,002 | €30.2M |
| 2024 | €5,255 | €2,360 | €6,008 | €30.1M |
| 2023 | €4,587 | €1,927 | €3,956 | €19.8M |
| 2022 | €4,467 | €1,772 | €4,364 | €21.8M |
| 2021 | €4,378 | €2,226 | €3,725 | €18.5M |
| 2020 | €3,592 | €1,412 | €3,983 | €19.6M |
| 2019 | €3,845 | €1,577 | €3,926 | €19.2M |
| 2018 | €3,611 | €1,384 | €3,156 | €15.4M |
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: Uchaud, €95. Highest: L'Île-d'Yeu, €6,002.
Have a say in L'Île-d'Yeu
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 L'Île-d'Yeu 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 L'Île-d'Yeu’s town hall
Who is the mayor of L'Île-d'Yeu?
Patrice Bernard, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does L'Île-d'Yeu have?
The L'Île-d'Yeu municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in L'Île-d'Yeu?
M'YEU ENSEMBLE, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 59.1% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in L'Île-d'Yeu?
74.9% 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 L'Île-d'Yeu?
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 L'Île-d'Yeu have?
€30.2M at the end of 2025, €6,002 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
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.