Épinal carries more debt per resident than 92% of compared communes
Benoît Jourdain has been mayor of Épinal since March 29, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, CHANGER POUR VOUS won 28 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 39.9% of the votes. Épinal is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Épinal.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Vosges and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Épinal’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, CHANGER POUR VOUS came first with 39.9% and took 28 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
48.8% of registered voters in Épinal voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 81% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Vosges was 56.6%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Épinal owed €57.5M at the end of 2025, €1,712 per resident: higher than in 92% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 111% 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.
- CHANGER POUR VOUS2820 community seats
- PASSIONNÉMENT ÉPINAL75 community seats
- EPINAL EN PARTAGE21 community seat
- RASSEMBLER POUR EPINAL21 community seat
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 Épinal 27 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Épinal (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: Benoît Jourdain · 39 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 29, 2026Benoît Jourdain
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilClaude NedelecAfafe RafikiMichel TiberiRégine BégelStéphane GschwendPatricia ChampagneAbdelah BoumazaFaustine Amiot+3 more
- 3Épinal municipal council39 seats by listCHANGER POUR VOUS 28 · PASSIONNÉMENT ÉPINAL 7 · EPINAL EN PARTAGE 2 · RASSEMBLER POUR EPINAL 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération d'ÉpinalÉpinal holds 27 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 39 members of the Épinal municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoît Jourdain | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claude Nedelec | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Afafe Rafiki | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michel Tiberi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Régine Bégel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stéphane Gschwend | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patricia Champagne | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Abdelah Boumaza | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Faustine Amiot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michel Hugues | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Gaëlle Philbert | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michaël Hecht | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoît Jourdain | Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Claude Nedelec | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Afafe Rafiki | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michel Tiberi | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Régine Bégel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Stéphane Gschwend | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Patricia Champagne | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Abdelah Boumaza | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Faustine Amiot | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michel Hugues | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Anne-Gaëlle Philbert | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Michaël Hecht | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 29, 2026 |
| Philippe Admant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniela Amiunes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélanie Bourgeois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sengul Ceyhan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sofia Chegar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Chenal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Closson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisa Crema | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Diot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydie Durand | Conseiller municipal | March 29, 2026 |
| Pierre François | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Didier Gerard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Floriane Grandvallet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanessa Grewis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thomas Griffet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kévin Guellaff | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Slim Hardial | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Jeandel-Jeanpierre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Maggi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christophe Martin | Conseiller municipal | June 17, 2026 |
| Téo Piaget | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thibaut Sannier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alizée Thomas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Toussaint | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gypsie Vaccani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frédéric Voirin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yasar Yilmaz | 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 Épinal, above.
How Épinal voted in March 2026
5 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
10,693 votes cast for a list
10,890 of 21,537 registered voters in Épinal voted.
96 blank and 101 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,268 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
10,497 of 21,523 registered voters in Épinal voted.
134 blank and 95 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.
Épinal spends €1,908 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
Épinal owed €57.5M at the end of 2025, €1,712 per resident, higher than in 92% 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 | €1,908 | €371 | €1,712 | €57.5M |
| 2024 | €1,838 | €315 | €1,732 | €58.3M |
| 2023 | €1,824 | €288 | €1,676 | €55.7M |
| 2022 | €1,749 | €309 | €1,662 | €56M |
| 2021 | €1,627 | €209 | €1,639 | €55.2M |
| 2020 | €1,610 | €249 | €1,673 | €55.5M |
| 2019 | €1,683 | €285 | €1,861 | €62.3M |
| 2018 | €1,716 | €362 | €2,085 | €70.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 4th 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: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, €257. Highest: Carpentras, €2,742.
Have a say in Épinal
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 Épinal 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 Épinal’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Épinal?
Benoît Jourdain, mayor since March 29, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Épinal have?
The Épinal municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Épinal?
CHANGER POUR VOUS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 39.9% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Épinal?
48.8% 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 Épinal?
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 Épinal have?
€57.5M at the end of 2025, €1,712 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Épinal part of?
Épinal is part of the Communauté d'agglomération d'Épinal, 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.