Election Results
In the 2024 presidential election, Connecticut voters favored the Democratic candidate with 58.6% of the vote.
Democratic presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
Republican presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Connecticut has a documented history of leaning Democratic in recent presidential elections.
Governors
Ned Lamont (D) has been governor since 2019, with Democrats holding both legislative chambers.
| Governor | Party | In office |
|---|---|---|
| Ned Lamont | Democratic | 2019–present |
| M. Jodi Rell | Republican | 2004–2011 |
| John G. Rowland | Republican | 1995–2004 |
| Lowell P. Weicker | Independent | 1991–1995 |
| William A. O’Neill | Democrat | 1980–1991 |
| Ella T. Grasso | Democrat | 1975–1980 |
| Thomas J. Meskill | Republican | 1971–1975 |
| John Dempsey | Democrat | 1961–1971 |
| Abraham Alexander Ribicoff | Democrat | 1955–1961 |
| John Davis Lodge | Republican | 1951–1955 |
| Chester Bliss Bowles | Democrat | 1949–1951 |
| James Coughlin Shannon | Republican | 1948–1949 |
| James Lukens McConaughy | Republican | 1947–1948 |
| Charles Wilbert Snow | Democrat | 1946–1947 |
| Robert Augustine Hurley | Democrat | 1941–1943 |
| Raymond Early Baldwin | Republican | 1939–1941 |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross | Democrat | 1931–1939 |
| John Harper Trumbull | Republican | 1925–1931 |
| Hiram Bingham | Republican | 1925–1925 |
| Charles Augustus Templeton | Republican | 1923–1925 |
| Everett John Lake | Republican | 1921–1923 |
| Marcus Hensey Holcomb | Republican | 1915–1921 |
| Simeon Eben Baldwin | Democrat | 1911–1915 |
| Frank Bentley Weeks | Republican | 1909–1911 |
| George Leavens Lilley | Republican | 1909–1909 |
| Rollin Simmons Woodruff | Republican | 1907–1909 |
| Henry Roberts | Republican | 1905–1907 |
| Abiram Chamberlain | Republican | 1903–1905 |
| George Payne McLean | Republican | 1901–1903 |
| George Edward Lounsbury | Republican | 1899–1901 |
| Lorrin Alamson Cooke | Republican | 1897–1899 |
| Owen Vincent Coffin | Republican | 1895–1897 |
| Luzon Burritt Morris | Democrat | 1893–1895 |
| Morgan Gardner Bulkeley | Republican | 1889–1893 |
| Phineas Chapman Lounsbury | Republican | 1887–1889 |
| Henry Baldwin Harrison | Republican | 1885–1887 |
| Thomas MacDonald Waller | Democrat | 1883–1885 |
| Hobart Baldwin Bigelow | Republican | 1881–1883 |
| Charles Bartlett Andrews | Republican | 1879–1881 |
| Richard Dudley Hubbard | Democrat | 1877–1879 |
| Charles Robert Ingersoll | Democrat | 1873–1877 |
| Joseph Roswell Hawley | Republican | 1866–1867 |
| William Alfred Buckingham | Republican | 1858–1866 |
| Alexander Hamilton Holley | Whig | 1857–1858 |
| William Thomas Minor | American | 1855–1857 |
| Henry Dutton | Whig | 1854–1855 |
| Charles Hobby Pond | Democrat | 1853–1854 |
| Thomas H. Seymour | Democrat | 1850–1853 |
| Joseph Trumbull | Whig | 1849–1850 |
| Clark Bissell | Whig | 1847–1849 |
| Isaac Toucey | Democrat | 1846–1847 |
| Roger Sherman Baldwin | Whig | 1844–1846 |
| Chauncey Fitch Cleveland | Democrat | 1842–1844 |
| William Wolcott Ellsworth | Whig | 1838–1842 |
| Samuel Augustus Foot | Whig | 1834–1835 |
| John Samuel Peters | National - Republican | 1831–1833 |
| Gideon Tomlinson | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1827–1831 |
| Oliver Wolcott Jr. | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1817–1827 |
| John Cotton Smith | Federalist | 1812–1817 |
| Roger Griswold | Federalist | 1811–1812 |
| John Treadwell | Federalist | 1809–1811 |
| Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. | Federalist | 1797–1809 |
| Oliver Wolcott Sr. | Federalist | 1796–1797 |
| Samuel Huntington | Federalist | 1786–1796 |
Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.
- •Connecticut has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992.
Senators
Connecticut is currently represented in the U.S. Senate by Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •U.S. Senators from Connecticut serve staggered six-year terms.
Representatives
Connecticut is allocated 5 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on the 2020 Census apportionment.
U.S. House seats apportioned to Connecticut
1910–2020U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.
- •Congressional district boundaries in Connecticut are redrawn after each decennial census.
Voting Trends
Voting trends in Connecticut show a consistent Democratic lean across recent presidential elections.
Total votes cast for president
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Voter turnout in Connecticut typically exceeds 60% in presidential election years.
Party Distribution
Connecticut sends 5 members to the U.S. House and is represented in the Senate by Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.
- •Party control of Connecticut's state legislature has been consistent in recent election cycles.