How is Neufchâteau run?
Simon Leclerc has been mayor of Neufchâteau since March 15, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, De l'énergie, des idées et des actions pour Neufchâteau ! won 29 of the 33 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.7% of the votes. Neufchâteau is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Vosgien.
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.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- De l'énergie, des idées et des actions pour Neufchâteau !2917 community seats
- NEUFCHATEAU AUTREMENT43 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 Neufchâteau 20 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Vosgien (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: Simon Leclerc · 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 15, 2026Simon Leclerc
- 2Deputy mayors7 adjoints, elected by the councilChristophe LaurentMuriel RolJean-José Da CunhaSandrine FarnocchiaAllan MarquesClaudine DamianiJean-Marie Roche
- 3Neufchâteau municipal council33 seats by listDe l'énergie, des idées et des actions pour Neufchâteau ! 29 · NEUFCHATEAU AUTREMENT 4
- 4Communauté de communes de l'Ouest VosgienNeufchâteau holds 20 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 Neufchâteau municipal council
The mayor and 7 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Charline Gillet | Maire délégué | March 15, 2026 |
| Simon Leclerc | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Laurent | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Muriel Rol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-José Da Cunha | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Farnocchia | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Allan Marques | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Claudine Damiani | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Roche | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Charline Gillet | Maire délégué | March 15, 2026 |
| Simon Leclerc | Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Laurent | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Muriel Rol | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-José Da Cunha | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Sandrine Farnocchia | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Allan Marques | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Claudine Damiani | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-Marie Roche | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 15, 2026 |
| Arnauld Albrecht | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Philippe Andre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hervé Aury | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Fabienne Cabret | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Alice Cerdan-Uhlenbusch | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Estelle Crepet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Séverine Demassey-Freby | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Karine Desjeunes | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laetitia Dessy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Emile El Homsy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mathieu Furgaut | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Sylvie Guillaume-Charbonnelle | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cyrille Jeannoel | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Laurensot | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Cindy Le Cadre | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean-François Merlin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Rachel Pautrat | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Evelyne Rezny | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Yannick Rousse | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Giovanni Schmitt | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Dominique Segura | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Jean Simonin | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Selena Vosgien | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Antoine Weinbissinger | 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 Neufchâteau, above.
How Neufchâteau voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
2,801 votes cast for a list
2,930 of 4,929 registered voters in Neufchâteau voted.
71 blank and 58 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.
Neufchâteau spends €1,300 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
Neufchâteau owed €5M at the end of 2025, €708 per resident, lower than in 53% of compared French communes, equal to 70% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,300 | €283 | €708 | €5M |
| 2024 | €1,308 | €332 | €844 | €6.1M |
| 2023 | €1,547 | €599 | €865 | €6.3M |
| 2022 | €1,347 | €379 | €901 | €6.5M |
| 2021 | €1,251 | €388 | €985 | €7.1M |
| 2020 | €1,374 | €546 | €935 | €6.8M |
| 2019 | €1,144 | €286 | €925 | €6.7M |
| 2018 | €1,338 | €457 | €810 | €5.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Liancourt, €5. Highest: Montech, €1,879.
Have a say in Neufchâteau
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 Neufchâteau 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 Neufchâteau’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Neufchâteau?
Simon Leclerc, mayor since March 15, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Neufchâteau have?
The Neufchâteau municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 7 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Neufchâteau?
De l'énergie, des idées et des actions pour Neufchâteau !, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 70.7% of the votes; it holds 29 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Neufchâteau?
59.4% 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 Neufchâteau?
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 Neufchâteau have?
€5M at the end of 2025, €708 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Neufchâteau part of?
Neufchâteau is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Vosgien, 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.