Marseille

:Marseilles redirects here. There is also Marseilles, Illinois.

Administration

Marseille is divided into 16 municipal arrondissements, which are themselves divided into ??quartiers?? (111 in total). The arrondissements are regrouped in pairs into sectors, and 8 sectors have a council and a town hall, like the arrondissements in Paris and in Lyon.

Related Topics:
Municipal arrondissements - Paris - Lyon

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The municipal elections are carried out by sector. Each sector elects its councillors (303 in total), one third of which are muncipal councillors.

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Number of councilors elected by sector:

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The last mayors of Marseille :

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• 1953-1986 : Gaston Defferre (already mayor between 1944 and 1946, relected in 1959, 1965, 1971, 1977, 1983)
• 1986-1995 : Robert Vigouroux PS (reelected in 1989)
• 1995- : Jean-Claude Gaudin UMP (relected in 2001)

The Sector Mayors :

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