2024 Connecticut House of Representatives election

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2024 Connecticut House of Representatives elections
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November 5, 2024
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All 151 seats in the Connecticut House of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Matthew Ritter Vincent Candelora
Party Democratic Republican
Leader's seat 1st district 86th district
Last election 98 53
Seats won 102 49
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 4
Popular vote 887,403 686,796
Percentage 56.12% 43.43%
Results:
     Democratic gain      Republican gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
Speaker before election

Matthew Ritter
Democratic

 Elected Speaker

Matthew Ritter
Democratic

The 2024 Connecticut House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections.[1] Primary elections took place on August 14, 2024. Democrats gained a two-thirds majority in the state house, and along with expanding their Senate majority, were able to achieve a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature.[2] This allowed them to override any veto by governor Ned Lamont.[3][4]

Democrats

Eleven incumbents did not seek re-election.[5]

  1. District 11: Jeffrey Currey retired.[6]
  2. District 26: Peter Tercyak retired.[7]
  3. District 36: Christine Palm retired.[8]
  4. District 42: Keith Denning retired.[9]
  5. District 58: Tom Arnone retired.[10]
  6. District 91: Michael D'Agostino retired.[11]
  7. District 94: Robyn Porter retired.[12]

Republicans

  1. District 51: Rick Hayes retired.[5]
  2. District 69: Cindy Harrison retired.[13]
  3. District 117: Charles Ferraro retired.[14]
  4. District 131: David Labriola retired.[5]

Incumbents defeated

Two incumbents, both Stamford Democrats, were defeated in the August 14th primary election.

In primary election

Democrats

  1. District 146: David Michel lost re-nomination to Eilish Collins Main.[15]
  2. District 148: Anabel Figueroa lost re-nomination to Jonathan Jacobson.[16]

In general election

Republicans

  1. District 22: Francis Cooley lost re-election to Rebecca Martinez.[17]
  2. District 37: Holly Cheeseman lost re-election to Nick Menapace.[18]
  3. District 38: Kathleen McCarty lost re-election to Nick Gauthier.[19]
  4. District 120: Laura Dancho lost re-election to Kaitlyn Shake.[20]
  5. District 138: Rachel Chaleski lost re-election to Ken Gucker.[21]

Democrats

  1. District 65: Michelle Cook lost re-election to Joe Canino.[22]
  2. District 149: Rachel Khanna lost re-election to Tina Courpas.[23]

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
CNalysis[24] Solid D June 11, 2024
Sabato's Crystal Ball[25] Safe D June 18, 2024

Summary of results

Election results

References

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