Charrat is a former municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Charrat had an area, as of 2011[update], of 7.6 square kilometers (2.9 sq mi).

[4] The former municipality is located in the Martigny district, on the left bank of the Rhone.

It consists of the villages of Vison and Les Chênes and a development around the train station.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Bar ragully Vert a Lynx passant Sable armed Argent on a Chief Azure between two Mullets of Five Or an Oak branch Argent fructed Or.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (973 or 90.0%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (30 or 2.8%) and Italian is the third (23 or 2.1%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[10][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 34.66% of the vote.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 535 votes were cast, of which 45 or about 8.4% were invalid.

[4] There were 513 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 198 or 76.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 24 or 9.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 4.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 0.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 3.1% were in education.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 876 or 81.0% were Roman Catholic, while 54 or 5.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.