Bradley International Airport may not be dead as a potential casino site.

All three seats on the Board of Selectmen in Windsor Locks, the north-central Connecticut town where the airport is located, turned over in Tuesday’s municipal elections, raising the possibility that the new board will agree to partner with the Connecticut Airport Authority on a bid to land a third Connecticut casino.

“Once in office, I would revive it,” Chris Kervick, the Democratic first selectman-elect, said Wednesday.

The board shifted from a 2-1 Republican majority to a 2-1 Democratic majority in Tuesday’s voting.

Democratic First Selectman Steven Wawruck Jr., who announced prior to the election that he would be retiring, called last week for the board to respond to the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes’ request for casino proposals.

Although it was reported that the selectmen voted 2-1 to reject Wawruck’s motion, the minutes of the meeting show no vote took place.

When Wawruck first asked for a motion to respond to the tribes' RFP (request for proposals), neither of the board’s Republican members — Dennis Gragnolati and Michael Russo — offered one.

Wawruck then made a motion that the town “move forward to the next stage” in the RFP process “with the airport entity as the sole applicant,” and “to allow the first selectman to sign the necessary documentation to further this effort on behalf of the Town of Windsor Locks.”

The motion died for lack of a second, according to the minutes.

Speaking as a resident at the meeting at which the discussion took place, Kervick said the town should respond to the RFP, if only to keep its options open.

“I’ll be honest and say that I’m not at all convinced that a casino in Windsor Locks is the right thing,” Kervick said Wednesday. “But that’s a gut reaction. I don’t have enough information on exactly what the proposal is and what the town’s going to get out of it in terms of tax revenue. Right now, it’s just a concept. I took the position that the Board of Selectmen should have submitted a response to the RFP to have a place at the table. Then, we could submit it to voters in a referendum or a town meeting where they could decide.”

Kervick said his running mate, Michelle Hill, also believes the new board, which takes office Nov. 24, should vote to respond to the RFP.

The tribal business entity that was formed to solicit casino proposals would have to extend the deadline for responses, which is Friday, but Kervick said he doubted that would be a problem.

A spokesman for the Mohegans referred questions to the tribal business partner handling the RFP process, who could not be reached to comment.

Kevin Brown, the Mohegan chairman, said last week that the airport would likely have been “a very good option” for the casino the tribes hope to develop.

In East Windsor, a town whose Board of Selectmen intends to file a response to the tribes’ RFP, the first selectwoman, Democrat Denise Menard, lost her re-election bid Tuesday.

Though she won enough votes to retain a seat on the five-member Board of Selectmen, it was unclear Wednesday whether she planned to continue to serve on the board.

Menard, who was unavailable, has said that East Windsor will propose that a casino be developed on a site that incorporates a former Showcase Cinemas building off Interstate 91 and an adjacent parcel where a former Walmart store stands.

A separate proposal involving a private developer who controls land in town could also be presented, Menard has said.

Republican Robert Maynard, East Windsor’s first selectman-elect, said any proposal from East Windsor would eventually have to be approved by voters in a referendum.

“Up until recently, I would have voted for it (a casino proposal). We need the tax revenue,” Maynard said. “But I’m realizing there are costs associated with it. We have questions, for example, about how we’d provide fire service. We’ve got a volunteer fire department.”

East Hartford, whose Democratic mayor, Marcia Leclerc, was re-elected Tuesday, is expected to submit a plan, perhaps Thursday, involving a vacant Showcase Cinemas building off I-84, near Rentschler Field.

Tony Ravosa, a Glastonbury businessman involved in putting the proposal together, said he and his partners will be filing a response that meets the requirements of the RFP, including a “municipal-approval form” signed by the mayor and documentation demonstrating that the developers have secured options on the necessary property.

The state has authorized the tribes’ joint pursuit of a northern Connecticut casino that would compete with MGM Springfield, the $800 million resort casino scheduled to open in September 2018 in nearby Massachusetts.

MGM Springfield, which has been undergoing design changes amid soaring cost projections, threatens to divert jobs and revenues from the two tribal casinos in southeastern Connecticut.

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