Brookfield, Connecticut, like all cities and towns in Connecticut, has partisan local elections. According to this story, Brookfield also has a law that requires that appointed commissioners may not all be from the same political party. Currently the only qualified parties for Brookfield elections are the Democratic and Republican Parties. However, Republicans are in the process of creating a new municipal party called the Brookfield Party. Assuming the party polls at least 1% of the vote in the November 2009 election, members of that party will be eligible to serve on the minority slots on town commissions. That way, there will be no legal obligation that Democrats be appointed to any of those slots.