Connecticut 2022 Election Results

Connecticut held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 187 legislative seats and 6 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Democrats kept every statewide office and marginally expanded their legislative majorities in a year Republicans had hoped inflation would carry them. They finished at 98-53 in the House and 24-12 in the Senate, exactly two-thirds of the upper chamber.
• Gov. Ned Lamont (D) won a second term in a rematch with Bob Stefanowski (R), the businessman who narrowly lost to him in 2018, and widened his margin. CT Mirror credited his surprising strength in suburbs Stefanowski had carried four years earlier.
• The legislative map moved in both directions:
  • Democrats captured two GOP-held seats in Greenwich: Rachel Khanna (D) unseated Rep. Kimberly Fiorello (R) in House District 149, and Hector Arzeno (D) won District 151. They also took the newly drawn District 42 in Wilton and, behind Martha Marx (D), the open Senate District 20.
  • Republicans unseated Reps. Christine Goupil (D) in District 35, Ken Gucker (D) in District 138, and Philip Young (D) in District 120, and won the open District 48 in Colchester.
• Several seats finished inside the half-point margin that triggers a mandatory recount:
  • Chris Poulos (D) won the recount by one vote over Tony Morrison (R) for the open House District 81 seat in Southington.
  • House Democrats' 98th seat came from Fairfield's District 134, where Sarah Keitt (D) beat Meghan McCloat (R) by fewer than 15 votes after a recount.
  • Gucker's loss in Danbury's District 138 was one of them: Rachel Chaleski (R) won by fewer than 30 votes.
  • In the Senate, Republicans held District 36, where Sen. Ryan Fazio (R) edged Trevor Crow (D) by fewer than 100 votes, and District 8, where Lisa Seminara (R) beat Paul Honig (D) by about 120.
• Below governor, Democrats extended a streak of more than two decades without a Republican as attorney general, secretary of the state, treasurer, or comptroller. Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz (D) and Attorney General William Tong (D) were re-elected, and Democrats held all three open seats: Stephanie Thomas (D) for secretary of the state, Sean Scanlon (D) for comptroller, and Erick Russell (D) for treasurer, who became, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, the first Black out LGBTQ person elected statewide in the U.S.
• Across the 187 legislative races, Democrats netted one seat in each chamber, 7 other races finished inside two points without changing hands, and 40 had only one candidate on the ballot.
• Voters approved Question 1, a constitutional amendment letting the legislature provide for in-person early voting, after a broader version failed in 2014; lawmakers still had to write the law setting how it would work.

Legislature

• House (151 seats): 97 D, 54 R before the election, 98 D, 53 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (36 seats): 23 D, 13 R before the election, 24 D, 12 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures