Auxerre carries more debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Mathieu Debain has been mayor of Auxerre since March 28, 2026, elected by the 39 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, DEMAIN LES AUXERROIS won 27 of the 39 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 33.8% of the votes. Auxerre is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Auxerrois.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Yonne and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Auxerre’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 7 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, DEMAIN LES AUXERROIS came first with 33.8% and took 27 of the 39 seats; the other lists share the remaining 12. Who’s in charge ↓
More debt per resident than most
Auxerre owed €58.4M at the end of 2025, €1,607 per resident: higher than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 148% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Auxerre invested €718 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 40% of its spending: higher than in 84% 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.
- DEMAIN LES AUXERROIS2722 community seats
- POUR AUXERRE54 community seats
- AUXERRE AU COEUR44 community seats
- REMETTRE AUXERRE EN ORDRE !32 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 Auxerre 32 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Auxerrois (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: Mathieu Debain · 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 28, 2026Mathieu Debain
- 2Deputy mayors12 adjoints, elected by the councilMatthieu DriolLéa SimeraySuleyman DoganAgnès DurvilleNordine MaaroufiIrène DautreyJacques HojloMaëva Durak+4 more
- 3Auxerre municipal council39 seats by listDEMAIN LES AUXERROIS 27 · POUR AUXERRE 5 · AUXERRE AU COEUR 4 · REMETTRE AUXERRE EN ORDRE ! 3
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de l'AuxerroisAuxerre holds 32 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 Auxerre municipal council
The mayor and 12 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Mathieu Debain | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Driol | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Léa Simeray | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Suleyman Dogan | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Durville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nordine Maaroufi | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Irène Dautrey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Hojlo | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maëva Durak | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Lekhal | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Charisse Ngoumbi Nialongo | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Bosvy | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Monique Chabin | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (39)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Mathieu Debain | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Matthieu Driol | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Léa Simeray | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Suleyman Dogan | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Agnès Durville | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nordine Maaroufi | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Irène Dautrey | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Hojlo | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Maëva Durak | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Franck Lekhal | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Charisse Ngoumbi Nialongo | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Bosvy | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Monique Chabin | 12ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pascal Allain | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valentin Andry | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pascal Blaise | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nordine Bouchrou | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Bähr | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Guy Bègue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mani Cambefort | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Develle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sébastien Dolozilek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Dornat | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christian Duchet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Dussol | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Gherardi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Séverine Lambert | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Florence Loury | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delvin Ndinga | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mohamed Ouazarf | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thérèse Petident | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Poifol-Ferreira | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Pourrier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rémi Prou-Meline | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Pruliere | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elodie Roy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Sabouret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Soury | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurine Zeimer | 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 Auxerre, above.
How Auxerre voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
11,605 votes cast for a list
11,857 of 20,349 registered voters in Auxerre voted.
93 blank and 159 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
10,949 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
11,189 of 20,339 registered voters in Auxerre voted.
134 blank and 106 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.
Auxerre spends €1,806 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
Auxerre owed €58.4M at the end of 2025, €1,607 per resident, higher than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 148% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,806 | €718 | €1,607 | €58.4M |
| 2024 | €1,778 | €562 | €1,602 | €57.5M |
| 2023 | €1,767 | €536 | €1,657 | €58.4M |
| 2022 | €1,469 | €300 | €1,703 | €60.6M |
| 2021 | €1,398 | €296 | €1,718 | €61.7M |
| 2020 | €1,444 | €295 | €1,729 | €62.1M |
| 2019 | €1,411 | €302 | €1,658 | €61M |
| 2018 | €1,815 | €344 | €1,696 | €62M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 7th 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: Houilles, €314. Highest: Saint-Raphaël, €2,302.
Have a say in Auxerre
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 Auxerre 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 Auxerre’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Auxerre?
Mathieu Debain, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Auxerre have?
The Auxerre municipal council has 39 members, the mayor and 12 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Auxerre?
DEMAIN LES AUXERROIS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 33.8% of the votes; it holds 27 of the 39 seats.
What was the turnout in Auxerre?
55% 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 Auxerre?
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 Auxerre have?
€58.4M at the end of 2025, €1,607 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Auxerre part of?
Auxerre is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Auxerrois, 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.