Editing Aurora, Colorado (section)

==Government==
The city of Aurora operates under a [[Council–manager government|council-manager form of government]], where the city manager runs the city's day-to-day operations with general guidance from the city council. The Aurora City Council is composed of a mayor and ten council members. Six members are elected from districts, while the other four are elected at large. The mayor is elected by the entire city. Aurora's mayor role is largely ceremonial, but the mayor does have direct impact on policy issues as the head of city council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/CityHall/MayorandCityCouncil/CouncilMembers/index.htm |title=Mayor & Council Members @ AuroraGov.Org |access-date=October 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210728/https://www.auroragov.org/CityHall/MayorandCityCouncil/CouncilMembers/index.htm |archive-date=October 29, 2013 }}</ref> The council is nonpartisan; however, parties of members have been listed below for reference.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Aurora City Council Members<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/mayor___city_council|title=Mayor & City Council|website=www.auroragov.org}}</ref>
!District
!Officeholder
!Political Party
|-
|Mayor
|[[Mike Coffman]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
| rowspan="4" |At-Large
|Amsalu Kassaw (Stub-Term for Dustin Zvonek as of December 16, 2024)
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
|Danielle Jurinsky
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
|Alison Coombs
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|Curtis Gardner
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
|Ward I
|Crystal Murillo
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|Ward II
|Steve Sundberg
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
|Ward III
|Ruben Medina
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|Ward IV
|Stephanie Hancock
| {{Party shading/Republican}} |
Republican
|-
|Ward V
|Angela Lawson
| {{Party shading/Nonpartisan}} | Nonpartisan
|-
|Ward VI
|Francoise Bergan
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|}
This full-service city is protected by the [[Aurora Police Department]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/Police/index.htm|title=Police @ AuroraGov.Org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205732/https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/Police/index.htm|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=October 24, 2013}}</ref> one of only 10 law enforcement agencies in Colorado to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies; the Aurora Fire Department,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/Fire/index.htm|title=Fire @ AuroraGov.Org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210201/https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/Fire/index.htm|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=October 24, 2013}}</ref> which is accredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International; and a Public Safety Communications dispatch call center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/911Communications/index.htm|title=911 Communications @ AuroraGov.Org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205606/https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/911Communications/index.htm|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=October 24, 2013}}</ref> The Aurora Municipal Courts handles a wide variety of offense violations, and the Aurora Detention Center is a 72-hour adult holding facility.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/CourtsandDetention/index.htm|title=Courts & Detention @ AuroraGov.Org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205559/https://www.auroragov.org/LivingHere/PublicSafety/CourtsandDetention/index.htm|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=October 24, 2013}}</ref>

===Politics===

In national elections, Aurora leans to the left and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], though not as much as neighboring [[Denver]] but more than other suburbs in the Denver metro area. Northern and Central Aurora, due to an extremely racially and culturally diverse voter base and high density for a suburban city, are some of the most Democratic areas in Colorado and vote similarly to Denver and Boulder; southern Aurora, similar to neighboring [[Centennial, Colorado|Centennial]], used to lean Republican but has swung Democratic entering the 2020s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mason |first1=Kara |title=LEFT TURN: Aurora, area suburbs veering left politically |url=https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/metro/left-turn-aurora-area-suburbs-veer-left-politically/ |website=Aurora Sentinel |date=March 13, 2020 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=June 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=2020 Elections Map |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 2, 2021 |access-date=February 21, 2021|last1=Park |first1=Alice |last2=Smart |first2=Charlie |last3=Taylor |first3=Rumsey |last4=Watkins |first4=Miles }}</ref>

Aurora anchors [[Colorado's 6th congressional district]] and is represented in Congress by [[Jason Crow]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]-[[Centennial, Colorado|Centennial]]). State representation is listed in the tables below (areas implied to be in [[Arapahoe County, Colorado|Arapahoe County]] unless noted: not all districts are fully in Aurora).

==== Colorado State Representatives ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |District
!Name
!Party
!Area Represented
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 30
|Dafna Michaelson Jenet
|Democratic
|North Aurora (Adams County)
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 36
|Michael Carter
|Democratic
|Eastern Aurora
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 37
|Tom Sullivan
|Democratic
|Southeastern Aurora
|-
|bgcolor=red|&nbsp;
|District 39
|Mark Baisley
|Republican
|Southern Aurora (Douglas County)
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 40
|Naquetta Ricks
|Democratic
|South-central Aurora 
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 41
|Iman Jodeh
|Democratic
|Central Aurora 
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|District 42
|Mandy Lindsay
|Democratic
|North-central Aurora 
|-
|bgcolor=red|&nbsp;
|District 44
|Kim Ransom
|Republican
|Southern Aurora (Douglas County)
|-
|bgcolor=red|&nbsp;
|District 56
|Rod Bockenfeld
|Republican
|Eastern Aurora (Adams and Arapahoe Counties)
|}

==== Colorado State Senators ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |District
!Name
!Party
!Area Represented
|-
|bgcolor=red|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 4th Senate district|District 4]]
|Jim Smallwood
|Republican
|Southern Aurora (Douglas County)
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 25th Senate district|District 25]]
|Kevin Priola
|Democratic{{efn|[[Kevin Priola]] was elected as a Republican, and crossed the floor to the Democratic Party in 2022.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1561728147376295939|user=KevinPriola|date=August 22, 2022|title=#coleg #copolitics #Elections2022 #democracy #Republican #DemocratsDeliver #colorado}}</ref>}}
|Northern Aurora (Adams County)
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 26th Senate district|District 26]]
|Jeff Bridges
|Democratic
|South-central Aurora
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 27th Senate district|District 27]]
|Chris Kolker
|Democratic
|Southeastern Aurora
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 28th Senate district|District 28]]
|Janet Buckner
|Democratic
|South-central Aurora
|-
|bgcolor=blue|&nbsp;
|[[Colorado's 29th Senate district|District 29]]
|Rhonda Fields
|Democratic
|North-central Aurora
|-
|}

=== List of mayors ===
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | List of mayors of Fletcher and Aurora<ref>{{cite web |title=Elections Archives |url=https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/elections/elections_archives |access-date=October 25, 2019}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Period served
! scope="col" | Notes

|-
| scope="row" | H.M. Miliken || May 27, 1891 – May 1, 1894 ||
|-
| scope="row" | A.L.B. Davies || May 2, 1894 – April 2, 1895 ||
|-
| scope="row" | P.H. Chambers || April 3, 1895 – April 15, 1898 ||
|-
| scope="row" | W.A. Clundy || April 16, 1898 – April 8, 1899 ||
|-
| scope="row" | W.H. Murphy || April 9, 1899 – April 12, 1901 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Jonas Washburn || April 13, 1901 – April 6, 1903 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Harry S. Class || April 7, 1903 – April 14, 1904 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Louis M. Strauss || April 15, 1904 – April 2, 1905 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Wilmer J. Parker || April 13, 1905 – April 10, 1906 || Resigned
|-
| scope="row" | Andrew Thompson || April 16, 1906 – April 14, 1907 || Last mayor of Fletcher
|-
| scope="row" | Edwin G. Smith || April 15, 1907 – April 12, 1908 || First mayor of Aurora
|-
| scope="row" | A.H. Kramer || April 13, 1908 – April 13, 1910 ||
|-
| scope="row" | V.T. O'Donald || April 14, 1910 – April 17, 1911 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Gershom Jones || April 18, 1911 – April 13, 1914 ||
|-
| scope="row" | H.B. Thompson || April 14, 1914 – April 12, 1917 ||
|-
| scope="row" | George E. Smith || April 13, 1917 – December 7, 1917 || Resigned
|-
| scope="row" | Harry Katherman || December 8, 1917 – July 1, 1918 || Mayor pro tem
|-
| scope="row" | John McMillan || July 1, 1918 – May 4, 1919 ||
|-
| scope="row" | J.N. Trompen || May 5, 1919 – April 21, 1920 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Jasper Parrish || April 22, 1920 – April 14, 1921 ||
|-
| scope="row" | John McMillan || April 15, 1921 – April 11, 1926 ||
|-
| scope="row" | F.A. Harrison || April 12, 1926 – April 10, 1927 ||
|-
| scope="row" | E.S. Murphy || April 11, 1927 – April 24, 1929 ||
|-
| scope="row" | B.B. Nevius || April 25, 1929 – April 12, 1931 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Charles F. Holzer || April 13, 1931 – April 6, 1937 ||
|-
| scope="row" | W.J. Parrish || April 7, 1937 – April 6, 1941 ||
|-
| scope="row" | J.E. McWhorter || April 7, 1941 – January 11, 1943 || Resigned
|-
| scope="row" | A.O. Hill || January 13, 1943 – April 8, 1945 || Appointed January 13, 1943, elected April 12, 1943
|-
| scope="row" | B.T. Howard || April 9, 1945 – January 11, 1948 ||
|-
| scope="row" | C.E. Tupps || January 12, 1948 – November 8, 1953 ||
|-
| scope="row" | William B. Mansfield || November 9, 1953 – November 6, 1955 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Allen C. Bradly || November 7, 1955 – November 8, 1959 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Harry W. Allard ||November 9, 1959 – November 11, 1963 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Robert W. Fennig || November 12, 1963 – November 7, 1965 ||
|-
| scope="row" | [[Norma O. Walker]] || November 8, 1965 – November 12, 1967 || First female mayor<ref>{{cite news|last1=Swartzell|first1=Griffin|title=New PAC asks mediocre white guys "Dude, can you not?"|url=https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/new-pac-asks-mediocre-white-guys-dude-can-you-not/Content?oid=3801836|access-date=May 11, 2018|work=Colorado Springs Independent|language=en|archive-date=July 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701083612/https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/new-pac-asks-mediocre-white-guys-dude-can-you-not/Content?oid=3801836|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| scope="row" | Paul C. Beck || November 13, 1967 – December 8, 1974 ||
|-
| scope="row" | William R. Dominguez || December 9, 1974 – November 9, 1975 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Fred H. Hood || November 10, 1975 – November 5, 1979 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Dennis Champine || November 6, 1979 – November 3, 1987 ||
|-
| scope="row" | [[Paul Tauer]] || November 4, 1987 – November 4, 2003 ||
|-
| scope="row" | Edward J. Tauer || November 5, 2003 – November 13, 2011 ||
|-
| scope="row" | [[Steve Hogan]] || November 14, 2011 – May 13, 2018 ||
|-
| scope="row" | [[Bob LeGare]] || June 25, 2018 – December 1, 2019 ||
|-
| scope="row" | [[Mike Coffman]] || December 2, 2019 – present ||
|-
|}