Photo: Tirand · CC BY-SA 4.0In La Chaize-le-Vicomte, turnout beat 89% of compared French communes
Aurélien Douillard has been mayor of La Chaize-le-Vicomte since April 3, 2026, elected by the 26 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, La Chaize, Passion commune won 22 of the 27 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 61.5% of the votes. La Chaize-le-Vicomte is part of the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération.
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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte’s town hall
Won in the first round
La Chaize, Passion commune won 61.5% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 22 of the 27 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.7% of registered voters in La Chaize-le-Vicomte voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 89% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Vendée was 60.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
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.
- La Chaize, Passion commune222 community seats
- ENSEMBLE POUR LA CHAIZE50 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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte 2 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération (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: Aurélien Douillard · 26 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 April 3, 2026Aurélien Douillard
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilAude Bijstra-GréaudQuentin LoizeauCeline NicolleauThomas SellierKarine AllainValentin TerrierJulie ArrivéFranck Rautureau
- 3La Chaize-le-Vicomte municipal council27 seats by listLa Chaize, Passion commune 22 · ENSEMBLE POUR LA CHAIZE 5
- 4Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon AgglomérationLa Chaize-le-Vicomte holds 2 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 26 members of the La Chaize-le-Vicomte municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Douillard | Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Aude Bijstra-Gréaud | 1er adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Quentin Loizeau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Celine Nicolleau | 3ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Thomas Sellier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Karine Allain | 5ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Valentin Terrier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Julie Arrivé | 7ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Franck Rautureau | 8ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
Show the full council (26)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Aurélien Douillard | Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Aude Bijstra-Gréaud | 1er adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Quentin Loizeau | 2ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Celine Nicolleau | 3ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Thomas Sellier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Karine Allain | 5ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Valentin Terrier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Julie Arrivé | 7ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Franck Rautureau | 8ème adjoint au Maire | April 3, 2026 |
| Emilie Bach | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Anne-Marie Bastos Da Silva | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laurent Blaineau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Bonnin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jérôme Chauvet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jonathan Derer | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Édith Drouet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Marie Gaborieau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thierry Galipaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Charles Gourdin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Paulette Guibelin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Grégory Jagueneau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Muriel Joyau | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jade Le Maitre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Natacha Merceron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Nathalie Viaud | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Villeret | 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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte, above.
How La Chaize-le-Vicomte voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
1,965 votes cast for a list
2,037 of 3,056 registered voters in La Chaize-le-Vicomte voted.
28 blank and 44 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.
La Chaize-le-Vicomte spends €1,112 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
La Chaize-le-Vicomte owed €3.4M at the end of 2025, €869 per resident, higher than in 60% of compared French communes, equal to 111% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,112 | €325 | €869 | €3.4M |
| 2024 | €1,229 | €444 | €1,009 | €3.9M |
| 2023 | €974 | €249 | €985 | €3.8M |
| 2022 | €1,094 | €424 | €1,118 | €4.3M |
| 2021 | €1,513 | €888 | €1,248 | €4.8M |
| 2020 | €1,277 | €689 | €760 | €2.9M |
| 2019 | €1,099 | €518 | €874 | €3.3M |
| 2018 | €948 | €367 | €956 | €3.6M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 13th 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: Maing, €72. Highest: Allevard, €3,049.
Have a say in La Chaize-le-Vicomte
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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte 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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte’s town hall
Who is the mayor of La Chaize-le-Vicomte?
Aurélien Douillard, mayor since April 3, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does La Chaize-le-Vicomte have?
The La Chaize-le-Vicomte municipal council has 26 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in La Chaize-le-Vicomte?
La Chaize, Passion commune, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 61.5% of the votes; it holds 22 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in La Chaize-le-Vicomte?
66.7% 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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte?
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 La Chaize-le-Vicomte have?
€3.4M at the end of 2025, €869 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is La Chaize-le-Vicomte part of?
La Chaize-le-Vicomte is part of the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération, 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.