Marseille is one of the three French cities (along with Paris and Lyon ), divided into municipal districts or arrondismanes ( fr. Arrondissement [aʀɔ̃dismɑ̃])).
In 1946, Marseille was divided into 16 districts.
In 1965, the municipal districts of Marseille were grouped into 8 sectors (two districts per sector) in accordance with the law of July 9, 1987 [1] . Each sector has its own Council and its mayor, similar to the city structure (city council and city mayor), but to a large extent having (unlike the city level) consultative powers.
Office
At present, the administrative management of Marseille is carried out in accordance with the law (PML) No. 82-1169, adopted on December 31, 1982 and defining administrative management for three cities: Paris , Marseille and Lyon ).
In accordance with the PML law, Council members are elected during municipal elections. The first elected from each list are also members of the City Council, the rest are only members of the sectoral Council. At its first session, each sector council elects a sector mayor.
In each of the sectors, elections are held for members of the sectoral Council (a total of 303 in the whole city), of which one third are elected to the City Council and elect the mayor of Marseille:
| Number of elected advisors | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sector | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | Viii | Total | ||||||||||
| Sectoral Council Members | 22 | sixteen | 22 | thirty | thirty | 26 | 32 | 24 | 202 | ||||||||||
| City Council members | eleven | eight | eleven | 15 | 15 | 13 | sixteen | 12 | 101 | ||||||||||
| Total elected | 33 | 24 | 33 | 45 | 45 | 39 | 48 | 36 | 303 | ||||||||||
History
In accordance with Law No. 46-2285 of October 18, 1946, the city of Marseille was divided into sixteen municipalities.
In accordance with the law of June 28, 1964 for the municipal elections, Marseille is divided into eight sectors, each of which includes two municipal districts.
Since 1964, the division of Marseille into sectors has changed several times for municipal elections:
Sectoral division according to Law No. 64-620 of June 27, 1964 [2] , which was introduced for the municipal elections in Marseille since 1965. Marseille was divided into 8 sectors (2 municipal districts in each) [3] as follows:
- Sector I includes: 1st and 4th municipal districts,
- Sector II includes: 2nd and 3rd municipal districts,
- Sector III includes: 6th and 7th municipal districts,
- Sector IV includes: 8th and 9th municipal districts,
- Sector V includes: 5th and 10th municipal districts,
- Sector VI includes: the 11th and 12th municipal districts,
- Sector VII includes: 13th and 14th municipal districts,
- Sector VIII includes: 15th and 16th municipal districts.
Sectoral division according to Law No. 82-1169 of December 31, 1982, called PLM law (Paris, Lyon, Marseille) [4] , has determined, since the municipal elections of 1983, the division of Marseille into 7 sectors as follows:
- Ist sector includes: 1st, 4th, 13th and 14th municipal districts,
- Sector II includes: 2nd, 3rd and 7th municipal districts,
- Sector III includes: the 5th, 10th, 11th and 12th municipal districts,
- Sector IV includes: 6th and 8th municipal districts,
- Sector V includes: 9th municipal district,
- Sector VI includes: the 15th and 16th municipal districts.
Le découpage de 1983 est revu par le gouvernement de Jacques Chirac en 1987 The order of dividing Marseille into sectors, adopted in 1983, was changed by the government of Jacques Chirac in 1987, reverting the division into eight sectors, but changing the consolidation of their constituencies, starting since the municipal elections of 1989. At present, the sectoral division of Marseille is as follows:
- Sector I includes: 1st and 7th municipal districts,
- Sector II includes: 2nd and 3rd municipal districts,
- Sector III includes: 4th and 5th municipal districts,
- Sector IV includes: 6th and 8th municipal districts,
- Sector V includes: 9th and 10th municipal districts,
- Sector VI includes: the 11th and 12th municipal districts,
- Sector VII includes: 13th and 14th municipal districts,
- Sector VIII includes: 15th and 16th municipal districts.