Swaranjit Singh Khalsa

Swaranjit Singh Khalsa (c. 1985) is the mayor elect for the city of Norwich in New London County, Connecticut. On November 4, 2025, Khalsa became the first Sikh to be elected Mayor of Norwich. Khalsa's wife is from Ludhiana.

Khalsa immigrated to the United States in 2007 and attended graduate school in New Jersey.

Political career In 2017, Khalsa bought and paid for multilingual welcome signs to be put up at two of Norwich city's entrances after being inspired by similar signs in Vancouver. At the time, Khalsa was the only Sikh elected official in Connecticut. They graduation ceremony was at University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee Forensic Sciences Institute. He was the first Sikh to be elected to a city council in all of Connecticut.

The Norwich Democratic Town Committee had nominated Khalsa to run for mayor. On November 4, 2025, Khalsa won the Norwich's Mayoral election as a Democrat and defeated Republican Tracy Gould and Marcia Wilbur, who was unaffiliated. He became the first Sikh to be elected Mayor.