Sens invested more per resident in 2025 than 86% of compared communes
Paul-Antoine de Carville has been mayor of Sens since March 27, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, BATIR LA VILLE DE VOS VIES won 31 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 73.1% of the votes. Sens is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Sénonais.
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 Sens’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, BATIR LA VILLE DE VOS VIES came first with 73.1% and took 31 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 4. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
48.5% of registered voters in Sens voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 82% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Yonne was 54.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
A big year for investment
Sens invested €769 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 37% of its spending: higher than in 86% 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.
- BATIR LA VILLE DE VOS VIES3124 community seats
- Remettre Sens en ordre44 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 Sens 28 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Sénonais (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: Paul-Antoine de Carville · 35 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, 2026Paul-Antoine de Carville
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilClarisse QuentinMichel GrassStéphanie OlivierJean-Michel VisseGhislaine PieuxRomain CroccoSandrine ImbertLionel Chapey+2 more
- 3Sens municipal council35 seats by listBATIR LA VILLE DE VOS VIES 31 · Remettre Sens en ordre 4
- 4Communauté d'agglomération du Grand SénonaisSens holds 28 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 35 members of the Sens municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Paul-Antoine de Carville | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Clarisse Quentin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michel Grass | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Olivier | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Visse | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Pieux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Romain Crocco | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Imbert | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lionel Chapey | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Larché | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gérard Brunin | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Paul-Antoine de Carville | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Clarisse Quentin | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michel Grass | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stéphanie Olivier | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Visse | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Ghislaine Pieux | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Romain Crocco | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sandrine Imbert | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Lionel Chapey | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascale Larché | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gérard Brunin | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gérard Adolphe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Luc Bernier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jimmy Bonnabeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ouardiya Boudjemline | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Pierre Crost | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurence Ethuin-Coffinet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Flory-Anastase | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Boniface Fomo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mathilde Hérouart | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicole Langel | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabien Le Boucher | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Le Roy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Agathe Marchand | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Marquet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ludovic Massard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Célestin N'Goma | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Oreste Pessaud | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicolas Pichard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Goran Radovanovic | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emma Ricci | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mélody Robichon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Charlotte Vaillant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Améline Vanlauwe | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marine Vigne | 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 Sens, above.
How Sens voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,101 votes cast for a list
6,459 of 14,785 registered voters in Sens voted.
215 blank and 143 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
7,004 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
7,157 of 14,763 registered voters in Sens voted.
80 blank and 73 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.
Sens spends €2,095 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
Sens owed €21.9M at the end of 2025, €789 per resident, higher than in 54% of compared French communes, equal to 60% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,095 | €769 | €789 | €21.9M |
| 2024 | €1,647 | €362 | €654 | €18M |
| 2023 | €1,732 | €417 | €546 | €14.9M |
| 2022 | €1,633 | €320 | €434 | €11.8M |
| 2021 | €1,375 | €235 | €532 | €14.4M |
| 2020 | €1,415 | €287 | €623 | €16.5M |
| 2019 | €1,500 | €327 | €695 | €18.6M |
| 2018 | €1,718 | €387 | €695 | €18.5M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 20th 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: Sèvremoine, €60. Highest: Biarritz, €2,321.
Have a say in Sens
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 Sens 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 Sens’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Sens?
Paul-Antoine de Carville, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Sens have?
The Sens municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Sens?
BATIR LA VILLE DE VOS VIES, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 73.1% of the votes; it holds 31 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Sens?
48.5% 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 Sens?
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 Sens have?
€21.9M at the end of 2025, €789 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Sens part of?
Sens is part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Sénonais, 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.