In Les Forges, turnout beat 95% of compared French communes
Daniel Midon has been mayor of Les Forges since March 27, 2026, elected by the 19 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, FORGER LE LIEN, BATIR DEMAIN won 14 of the 19 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.4% of the votes. Les Forges 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. Les Forges has 1,776 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.
What stands out about Les Forges’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, FORGER LE LIEN, BATIR DEMAIN came first with 41.4% and took 14 of the 19 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
68.8% of registered voters in Les Forges voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 95% 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
Les Forges owed €1.8M at the end of 2025, €974 per resident: higher than in 67% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 151% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Les Forges invested €889 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 58% of its spending: higher than in 91% 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.
- FORGER LE LIEN, BATIR DEMAIN141 community seat
- UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR LES FORGES30 community seats
- Une nouvelle équipe pour un nouveau souffle20 community seats
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 Les Forges 1 seat 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: Daniel Midon · 19 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 27, 2026Daniel Midon
- 2Deputy mayors4 adjoints, elected by the councilCatherine SchmittPatrice GéninEva BarthélemyJean-Paul Mougeolle
- 3Les Forges municipal council19 seats by listFORGER LE LIEN, BATIR DEMAIN 14 · UN NOUVEL ÉLAN POUR LES FORGES 3 · Une nouvelle équipe pour un nouveau souffle 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération d'ÉpinalLes Forges holds 1 seatCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 19 members of the Les Forges municipal council
The mayor and 4 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Midon | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Schmitt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrice Génin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eva Barthélemy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Mougeolle | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (19)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Midon | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Catherine Schmitt | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrice Génin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eva Barthélemy | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Mougeolle | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Begel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yanis Boulayoune | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard Dieudonné | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadia Dugravot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Jeandidier | Conseiller municipal | April 2, 2026 |
| Sylvie Leuvrey | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Mangin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Marcolet | Conseiller municipal | April 24, 2026 |
| Sébastien Masson | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Patrick Morel | Conseiller municipal | April 1, 2026 |
| Philippe Petit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Thouvenin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fanny Xemard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Armelle Zannini | 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 Les Forges, above.
How Les Forges voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,076 votes cast for a list
1,091 of 1,553 registered voters in Les Forges voted.
12 blank and 3 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,044 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,069 of 1,553 registered voters in Les Forges voted.
16 blank and 9 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.
Les Forges spends €1,532 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
Les Forges owed €1.8M at the end of 2025, €974 per resident, higher than in 67% of compared French communes, equal to 151% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,532 | €889 | €974 | €1.8M |
| 2024 | €1,028 | €447 | €1,143 | €2.1M |
| 2023 | €654 | €93 | €470 | €883K |
| 2022 | €609 | €100 | €563 | €1.1M |
| 2021 | €626 | €159 | €653 | €1.3M |
| 2020 | €503 | €35 | €737 | €1.4M |
| 2019 | €621 | €80 | €805 | €1.6M |
| 2018 | €701 | €154 | €978 | €2M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 9th 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: Watten, €1. Highest: Mers-les-Bains, €3,228.
Have a say in Les Forges
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 Les Forges 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 Les Forges’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Les Forges?
Daniel Midon, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Les Forges have?
The Les Forges municipal council has 19 members, the mayor and 4 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Les Forges?
FORGER LE LIEN, BATIR DEMAIN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 41.4% of the votes; it holds 14 of the 19 seats.
What was the turnout in Les Forges?
68.8% 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 Les Forges?
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 Les Forges have?
€1.8M at the end of 2025, €974 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Les Forges part of?
Les Forges 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.