Connecticut 2024 Election Results

Connecticut held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 187 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Democrats flipped six Republican House seats and one Senate seat while losing two of their own, growing their House majority from 98-53 to a veto-proof 102-49 and their Senate majority from 24-12 to 25-11. Slow and incomplete returns left several races uncalled until the next day. The two-thirds House majority matters less against Gov. Ned Lamont's veto than against the state's fiscal guardrails: Republican leader Vin Candelora warned Democrats would now "eviscerate the spending cap," while Speaker Matt Ritter promised only "minor modifications."
• Eight incumbents lost, six of them Republicans:
  • Along the shoreline, Reps. Holly Cheeseman (R) (HD-37) and Kathleen M. McCarty (R) (HD-38) fell to Nick Menapace (D) and Nick Gauthier (D), each by about a point.
  • Freshman Rep. Rachel Chaleski (R) lost HD-138 to Kenneth Gucker (D) in a rematch, and freshman Rep. Laura Dancho (R) lost HD-120 to Kaitlyn Shake (D).
  • Rebecca Martinez (D) beat Rep. Francis Rexford Cooley (R) in HD-22 once early-vote ballots were counted, reversing an Associated Press call for Cooley.
  • Paul Honig (D) unseated Sen. Lisa Seminara (R) in Senate District 8 by about half a point, a margin a recount confirmed later in November.
  • Republicans took two Democratic seats: Joe Canino (R) beat Rep. Michelle L. Cook (D) in Trump-leaning HD-65 (Torrington) by about half a point, and Tina Courpas (R) beat Rep. Rachel Khanna (D) in Greenwich's HD-149.
• MJ Shannon (D) took HD-117 in West Haven, an open seat Charles Ferraro (R) had held for a decade, and Sen. Mae Flexer (D) held Senate District 29 by about 1.4 points after trailing in early returns. Republicans held their two closest calls, Sen. Ryan Fazio (R)'s Greenwich Senate District 36 by about three points and Rep. Chris Aniskovich (R)'s HD-35 by 150 votes. Across the 187 legislative races, 9 seats changed parties, 8 incumbents were defeated, 4 races finished inside two points, and 46 seats drew a single candidate.
• The no-excuse absentee voting amendment passed 58-42. It does not change the rules by itself; it authorizes the General Assembly to write the enabling law.

Legislature

• House (151 seats): 98 D, 53 R before the election, 102 D, 49 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (36 seats): 24 D, 12 R before the election, 25 D, 11 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Legislative races

Ballot measures