48 Women mayors of places in France

Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007), the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011); she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010), and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.

Marie-Hélène Amiable is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the 11th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine département. She is a member of the French Communist Party and works in association with the Gauche démocrate et républicaine coalition.

Nathalie Appéré is a French politician and member of the Socialist Party. She was the députée to the National Assembly for Ille-et-Vilaine's 2nd constituency from 20 June 2012 to June 2017 and the mayor of Rennes since 4 April 2014. She was reelected for a second term in 2020.

Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001; she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father, Jacques Delors, served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.

Brigitte Barèges is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department, The Republicans.

Ericka Bareigts is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Overseas France in the governments of successive Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve from 30 August 2016 to 10 May 2017. She was a member of the National Assembly from 2012 until 2016 and from 2017 until 2020. Since 4 July 2020 she has been serving as Mayor of Saint-Denis, Réunion.

Jeanne Barseghian is a French politician who is the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after she successfully led the EELV list in the 2020 municipal election there.

Huguette Bello is a French politician from Réunion.

Martine Berthet is a French politician of The Republicans party. She was the mayor of Albertville, Savoie between 2014 and 2017 and became a senator for Savoie in 2017.

Florence Berthout is a French politician who served as mayor of 5th arrondissement of Paris since 2014.

Natacha Bouchart is a French politician and member of The Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Christine Boutin is a French former politician leading the small French Christian Democratic Party. She served as a member of the French National Assembly representing Yvelines, from 1986 until 2007, when she was appointed Minister of Housing and Urban Development by President Nicolas Sarkozy. She was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election, in which she scored 1.19% on the first round of balloting.

Chantal Brunel was the mayor of Bussy-Saint-Georges from 2014 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France until 2012. She represented the Seine-et-Marne department. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Françoise Cartron is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Gironde department. She is a member of the Socialist Party.

Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Caroline Cayeux is a French politician and Mayor of Beauvais. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud is a French politician. As a member of parliament, she represents one of the districts of the Hauts-de-Seine department. As a politician, she is affiliated to the Union for a Popular Movement party. She is Puteaux city mayor as well.

Geneviève Darrieussecq is a French doctor and politician serving as the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex since 2017.

Carole Delga is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of Occitanie since 2016.

Marie-Hélène des Esgaulx is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. She represents the Gironde department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Brigitte Fouré is a French university lecturer and former government minister, a member of the Nouveau Centre and of Société en mouvement ("Society on the move" She is a lecturer in law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne.

Valérie Fourneyron is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Chair of the Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency's International Testing Agency (ITA) since 2017. She previously served as Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2014 until 2017. She was also a member of the National Assembly and the Mayor of Rouen.

Jacqueline Fraysse-Cazalis is a French cardiologist and politician. A member of the French Communist Party, she served in the National Assembly of France, from 1978 to 1986, as a Senator from 1986 to 1997, and in the National Assembly again from 1997 to 2017, as a member of the French Communist Party, in the Gauche démocrate et républicaine parliamentary group.

Hélène Geoffroy is a French politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 17 June 2012 representing the department of Rhône.

Sylvie Goy-Chavent, born Sylvie Chavant is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. She represents the Ain department and is a member of the Radical Party. From 1995 to 2017 she was also the Mayor of Cerdon, Ain.

Anne Grommerch was a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France.

Brigitte Gros (1925-1985) was a French journalist and politician. She served as the mayor of Meulan-en-Yvelines and as a member of the French Senate. She was the author of several books.

Adeline Hazan is a French politician, who was one of the Members of the European Parliament for the east of France from 1999 to 2008, and mayor of Reims from March 2008 to April 2014.

Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu is a Spanish-French politician serving as Mayor of Paris since 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), she is the first woman to hold the office.

Jacqueline Irles is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Pyrénées-Orientales department, and is a member of the Radical Party.

Maryse Joissains-Masini, also known as Maryse Charton, was the mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 2001 to 2021. She was also a member of the National Assembly of France. in which she represented the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and is a member of The Republicans party.

Fabienne Keller is a French politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was the mayor (UDF) of Strasbourg, France, from March 2001 to March 2008.

Brigitte Kuster is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Paris since 2017. A member of the The Republicans (LR), her constituency covers parts of the 16th and 17th arrondissements. Kuster previously served as Mayor of the 17th arrondissement from 2008 to 2017.

Valérie Lacroute is a French politician who represented Seine-et-Marne's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2020. She left Parliament in 2020 due to an accumulation of mandates and was replaced by her substitute Sylvie Bouchet Bellecourt.

Brigitte Le Brethon is a French politician, and a member of The Republicans. She was born in Campeaux, Calvados, France.

Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She studied chemistry at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.

Martine Lignières-Cassou is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for 20 years. She represented the 1st constituency in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, and is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. She was the mayor of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques from 2008 to 2014. In the 1970s she was a member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the Socialist Party in 1975.

Hélène Mandroux-Colas is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS) since 1982, her career in Montpellier debuted in Georges Frêche's municipal administration. Frêche gave her important responsibilities such as finances, municipal staff, legal affairs since 1995, and vice-mayor from 2001. She became mayor of Montpellier in 2004, following the resignation of Frêche, who could not cumulate the job as mayor with his new role as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region. She defeated her UMP opponent Jacques Domergue in a three-way runoff during the 2008 French municipal elections.

Jeanne Moirod was a French Resistance member, principal liaison agent of Colonel Henri Romans-Petit's northern group, and mayor of Oyonnax from March to May 1953.

Anne d'Ornano was the President of the General Council of the French department of Calvados. She has been President of the department since 1991. She was a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) until the UDF dissolved in 2007, and she did not join either of the UDF's claimed successors: the New Centre and the MoDem. Unlike most centrists, she supported Nicolas Sarkozy by the first round of the 2007 election, over UDF candidate François Bayrou. However, she is not a member of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of The Republicans (LR) party and mayor of the 17th arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2008.

Marie-Luce Penchard is a French politician from Guadeloupe and member of the UMP. She is the daughter of Lucette Michaux-Chevry, the historical leader of the right in Guadeloupe and the former President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe from 1992 until 2004.

Sophie Primas is a French politician. She represented the 9th constituency of Yvelines in the French National Assembly from 11 June 2010 to 30 September 2011. She has been a member of the French Senate representing the department of Yvelines since 25 September 2011. Formerly a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, she has been one of The Republicans since 2015.

Johanna Rolland is a French politician, belonging to the Socialist Party. She is the current mayor of Nantes, being the first woman to hold this position. As of April 2014, she is one of six female mayors of French cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

Michèle Rubirola is a French politician who was mayor of Marseille from July to December 2020. Physician by occupation, she succeeded Jean-Claude Gaudin, who chose not to run for reelection to a fifth term in office, and endorsed her long term collaborator Martine Vassal, who lost the election in June 2020. Rubirola is the first female mayor of Marseille. Her grandparents came from Spain (Catalonia) and Naples.

Patricia Schillinger is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Haut-Rhin department. She is a member of the Socialist Party, and is the mayor of the French village of Hégenheim, in Alsace.

Michèle Tabarot is a French politician of the Republicans who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Alpes-Maritimes 9th constituency.

Catherine Trautmann is a French politician for the French Socialist Party. She served as Minister of Culture of France in the Lionel Jospin cabinet 1997–2000 and was a Member of the European Parliament 1989–1997 and 2004–2014.