Connecticut 2014 Election Results

Connecticut held its general election on November 4, 2014, deciding 187 legislative seats and 6 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) held on against a national Republican tide, keeping the Democratic trifecta, but Republicans cut into both legislative majorities and won their most House seats since 1994.
• In a rematch of their 2010 race, Malloy beat Thomas C. Foley (R) by about 28,000 votes, under 3 points. Four years earlier he had taken office with a plurality; this time he won an outright majority. Petitioning candidate Joe Visconti (I) quit and endorsed Foley two days before the election but stayed on the ballot and drew about 11,000 votes. A senior adviser credited the debates and labor's ground game, and Foley conceded the next day.
• Democratic margins fell to 87-64 in the House and 21-15 in the Senate. In all, 10 House incumbents lost, all but one of them Democrats, several by narrow margins, and Republicans took an open Senate seat:
  • Aundré Bumgardner (R) beat Rep. Elissa Wright (D) by 39 votes in House District 41.
  • Charles J. Ferraro (R) beat Rep. Paul Davis (D) by about 150 votes in House District 117.
  • Pam Staneski (R) beat Rep. James Maroney (D) by about 150 votes in House District 119.
  • Paul M. Formica (R) won the open Senate seat in Senate District 20 by about 12 points over Rep. Elizabeth Ritter (D), and Kathleen M. McCarty (R) won Ritter's old House District 38 by 90 votes.
  Reps. Joe Diminico (D), Tom Vicino (D), Ted Moukawsher (D), Timothy Bowles (D), Brian Sear (D), and Christopher Wright (D) also lost. The lone Democratic pickup came in House District 144, where Caroline Simmons (D) unseated Rep. Mike Molgano (R). Sen. Dante Bartolomeo (D) held Senate District 13 by 234 votes.
• Every Democratic statewide officer on the ballot won another term, though Treasurer Denise Nappier (D) edged Tim Herbst (R) by under 2 points. Voters rejected Question 1, which would have let the legislature allow early and no-excuse absentee voting; Malloy backed it and Foley urged a no vote.

Legislature

• House (151 seats): 98 D, 53 R before the election, 86 D, 63 R, 2 other or vacant after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (36 seats): 22 D, 14 R before the election, 20 D, 15 R, 1 other or vacant after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures