UPDATE: Final vote tallies
The Democratic Town Committee released the election returns via email just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7.
10:27 p.m. — Cat Murphy & Kendall Cooper
UPDATE: Garrett announces win
Incumbent Mayor Lauren Garrett just announced her win of the Hamden mayoral election of Republican mayoral candidate Crystal Dailey at her campaign party.
8:52 p.m. — Ben Yeargin
Andrew Tammaro is running for the Board of Education and is voting for Dailey.
“I think (she) just has a clear approach to the most important issues that face the town, which is affordability, public safety, and just a general responsiveness,” Tammaro said.
Anthony Dattilo, 78, was also at District 1 polling station and emphasized the importance of voting.
“You can see by the amount of people that have come out to vote shows that people are taking an interest,” Dattilo said. “They ran out of ballots here so that’s a good sign that more people than usual have come to vote. It is important for people to take an interest because it affects our town.”
Vote count as of 5 p.m.
District 1: 905
District 2: 764
District 3: 490
District 4: 974
District 6: 1,139
District 7: 1,027
District 8: 1,091
District 9: 1,260
That is 7,650 votes without the heavily populated District 5 in account.
For context, Lauren Garrett defeated Walter IV Morton with 56% of the votes, 2,689-2,096 in the Democratic primary in September.
Lauren Garret won the municipal election in 2021 with 53.9% of the votes, 6,653.
5 p.m. — Kendall Cooper
Unconfirmed District Results
According to the Crystal Dailey campaign, an unconfirmed total for the District Eight voters is 702-666 in favor of the Republican mayoral candidate over Incumbent Democratic Mayor Lauren Garrett.
Dailey also won District One 577-555, however, Garrett reportedly won District Four 779-416. This is also unconfirmed.
In District Nine — the Westwoods neighborhood —- the unconfirmed tally is Dailey won 986-615 but the unconfirmed tally of District Five is 994-302 in favor of Garrett.
Garrett also reportedly won the second district 511-490.
That would leave the alleged total for now at 4,120-3,473 in favor of Garrett. The results are yet to be certified and not every district has been counted yet.
8:34 p.m. — Ben Yeargin
Garrett won District Three 421-229 over Dailey. The final unconfirmed tally is 6,503-5,048 in favor of Garrett.
9:17 p.m. — Ben Yeargin
Remaining Districts Update
The unconfirmed tally for District Six is 986-468 Garrett. The incumbent mayor also won District Seven 661-649.
With absentee ballots, the current unconfirmed total for the mayoral race is 6,082-4,819 in favor of Garrett.
8:46 p.m. — Ben Yeargin
Mayoral race
Marcia Brown, a 71 year old retired teacher, is voting for Dailey.
“I have lived in Hamden for 20 years and I am hoping for change,” Brown said. “Especially when it comes to property taxes because it’s so expensive to live here”
Paul Boudreau, 57, is not confident in either candidate.
“I don’t think I am going to vote anyone for the mayor section, I think I will just leave it blank,” Boudreau said. “I am not happy with the choices, I want someone who supports everyone in Hamden not just select groups.”
1:34 p.m. — Kaitlyn Grady
Polling turnout
Through 11 a.m., more than 1,000 voters cast ballots at the Miller Library Polling Station in District 1, with turnout increasing every hour.
“The turnout has been surprisingly good so far,” Edward Broderick, a Miller Library Polling Station worker said. “We are averaging over 100 people an hour.”
Mayor Lauren Garrett took to the polls at Spring Glen School in District 4. Garrett was impressed with the turnout she had seen thus far.
“It’s hard to tell right now,” Garrett said. ‘We will obviously know more when the polls close but turnout has been good so far and I am feeling really good”
1:27 p.m. — Kaitlyn Grady