WESTPORT — More than 19,000 Westporters are eligible to cast ballots today in the municipal election that will recast the Board of Selectmen, Board of Education, the Planning and Zoning Commission and other town-wide boards.

Seventeen percent of eligible voters have already cast their ballots, according to Voter Checklist, the online tool that Deborah Greenberg, the Registrar Of Voters, uses to track Westport voter registration.

Polls will be open today from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Any eligible voter standing in line to cast a ballot as of 8 p.m. is allowed to vote.

Click here for the list of Westport’s polling stations.

Voters who need information about their polling station and whether they are currently registered to vote, can check this database via the Secretary of the State’s website.

The election of a new first selectman is one of several contested races on this year’s ballot. 

The first selectman race has three contenders: Democratic Board of Education member Kevin Christie, Republican RTM member and past chair of the Board of Education Don O’Day and Independent Party candidate and RTM member David Rosenwaks.

Their Board of Selectman running mates are, respectively: Amy Wistreich, a Democratic member of the Planning and Zoning commission and Andrea Moore, Republican Second Selectwoman. Rosenwaks is running without a mate.

The other contested races are for the Board of Education, the Planning and Zoning Commission, Board of Finance, Board of Assessment Appeals, Zoning Board of Appeals and five of the nine Representative Town Meeting districts.

To see a sample ballot for Tuesday’s election, click here.

State-wide same-day registration permits anyone who meets the eligibility requirements for voting in Connecticut and is not already registered or is registered in one town but has moved to another town, to register and vote in person. That process is explained here. Eligible voters looking to register in Westport can report to Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. today. The list of other town same-day registration sites is here. 

To be counted in the election, absentee ballots must be returned to the Town Clerk’s office–110 Myrtle Avenue–no later than 8 p.m. today, Tuesday, Nov. 4, when in-person voting also ends at polling stations across town.

For more information, contact the Westport Registrars of Voters office at 203-341-1115.