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| leader_name = Brian Andrews ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]], term ends December 31, 2023)<ref name=Committee/><ref name=Reorg2022/><ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/dca/home/2023mayors.pdf 2023 New Jersey Mayors Directory], [[New Jersey Department of Community Affairs]], updated February 8, 2023. Accessed February 10, 2023.</ref>
| leader_title1 = [[City manager|Administrator]]
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| leader_title2 = [[Municipal clerk]]
| leader_name2 = Patricia Donahue<ref name=Clerk>[https://www.cranfordnj.org/township-clerk Township Clerk], Township of Cranford. Accessed
| established_title = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]]
| established_date = March 14, 1871
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Cranford is governed under the [[Township (New Jersey)|Township]] form of New Jersey municipal government, one of 141 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form, the second-most commonly used form of government in the state.<ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf ''Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey''], [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The Township Committee is comprised of five members, who are elected directly by the voters [[at-large]] in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 94.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=7 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 7. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref>
The Committee members elect a chairman of the committee who assumes the title of [[Mayor]] and another who is selected as [[Deputy Mayor]]. Both positions carry one-year terms. Four of the committee members take on departmental oversight assignments as Commissioner of Finance, Commissioner of Public Safety, Commissioner of Public Works and Engineering, and Commissioner of Public Affairs. The [[List of Mayors of Cranford, New Jersey|Mayor of Cranford]] does not take on a departmental assignment. The Township Committee is a part-time body and the township government is run
{{As of|2023}}, members of the Cranford Township Committee are Mayor Brian Andrews (D, term on committee and as mayor ends December 31, 2023), Deputy Mayor Terrence Curran (D, term on committee
In June 2023, the township committee appointed Paul Gallo to fill the seat expiring in December 2023 that had been held by Jason Gareis until he resigned from office.<ref>Glackin, Jennifer. [https://www.tapinto.net/towns/cranford/sections/government/articles/cranford-township-committee-names-commissioner-s-replacement-new-deputy-mayor "Cranford Township Committee Names Commissioner's Replacement, New Deputy Mayor"}, [[TAPinto]] Cranford, June 21, 2023. Accessed July 4, 2023. "At its meeting Tuesday evening, the Cranford Township Committee unanimously voted in a replacement for former Commissioner Jason Gareis, who recently resigned to take a position at the Union County Prosecutor's office. Paul Gallo, one of the three names put forth by the Cranford Democratic Committee last week, has been appointed to the Township Committee."</ref>
==== Women in elected office ====
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