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Arunan Arulampalam (born September 15, 1985) is an American politician who is the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party , Arulampalam won the November 2023 election for mayor and was sworn in on January 1, 2024.
Advocates for reform argued a switch to a strong-mayor system would "ameliorate the sense of citizen frustration with the Hartford government and the many problems facing the city," such as a significant drop in the city's population (11.1% from 1990 to 1994, the largest drop for a large U.S. city), crime, a broken school system (which had been ...
The Greater Hartford-New Britain Building Trades has endorsed Hartford Land Bank CEO Arunan Arulampalam in the race for Hartford mayor, the first labor union endorsement in the race. Arulampalam ...
The 2011 Hartford mayoral election was held on November 8, 2011. The election saw incumbent Democrat Pedro Segarra win a first full term. He became the first openly-gay individual elected Mayor of Hartford, [ 69 ] making Hartford the second U.S. state capital to elect an openly gay mayor ( Providence, Rhode Island was the first when they ...
Voters chose Democrat Arunan Arulampalama, CEO of the Hartford Land Bank, as the new mayor in Hartford, the state's capital city, after incumbent Mayor Luke Bronin chose not to seek a third term.
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The current mayor is Arunan Arulampalam. Hartford voted in favor of restoring a mayor-council system in 2003, more than 50 years after establishing the council-manager form. Mayor Eddie Perez was first elected in 2001 and was re-elected with 76% of the vote in 2003. As the first strong mayor elected under the revised charter, he is widely ...