United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, 2024
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2024 U.S. House Elections |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Connecticut are scheduled on November 5, 2024. Voters will elect five candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's five U.S. House districts. The primary was August 13, 2024. The filing deadline was June 11, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Connecticut | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Republican | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- John Larson (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Jim Griffin (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Nicholas Symochko (Connecticut Conservative Party)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- John Larson (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
General election candidates
- Joe Courtney (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Mike France (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Joe Courtney (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
General election candidates
- Rosa L. DeLauro (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Michael Massey (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Rosa L. DeLauro (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
General election candidates
- Jim Himes (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Michael Goldstein (Republican Party)
- Benjamin Wesley (Independent Party)
- Jaden Skudlarek (Independent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Jim Himes (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
General election candidates
- Jahana Hayes (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- George Logan (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Jahana Hayes (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Connecticut
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Connecticut's 1st Congressional District
- Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District
- Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District
- Connecticut's 4th Congressional District
- Connecticut's 5th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Connecticut in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Connecticut, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Connecticut | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 2% of registered party members in the district | K.A. | 6/11/2024 | Source |
| Connecticut | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1% of votes cast for the office in the last election, or 7,500, whichever is less | K.A. | 8/7/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Connecticut.
| Connecticut U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 10.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 10.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 20.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 20.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Connecticut in 2024. Information below was calculated on August 6, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Eleven candidates ran for Connecticut’s five U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and six Republicans. That’s an average of 2.2 candidates per district. There was an average of 2.2 candidates per district in 2022, 2.6 candidates per district in 2020, and 2.6 in 2018.
The number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in Connecticut in 2024 was tied with 2022 for the second-fewest in the last 10 years.
No districts were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election. One district was open in 2018, the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district was open.
Three candidates—one Democrat and two Republicans—ran for the 4th Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a district in Connecticut in 2024.
The Republican primary for the 4th Congressional District was the only contested primary in 2024.
No incumbents ran in a contested primary in 2024 for the sixth consecutive election cycle.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all five districts, meaning no seats are guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Connecticut, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Connecticut's 1st | John Larson |  Democratic |
D+12 |
| Connecticut's 2nd | Joe Courtney | Democratic |
D+3 |
| Connecticut's 3rd | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic |
D+7 |
| Connecticut's 4th | Jim Himes | Democratic |
D+13 |
| Connecticut's 5th | Jahana Hayes | Democratic |
D+3 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Connecticut[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Connecticut's 1st | 63.3% | 35.2% | ||
| Connecticut's 2nd | 54.7% | 43.3% | ||
| Connecticut's 3rd | 59.2% | 39.5% | ||
| Connecticut's 4th | 64.8% | 33.8% | ||
| Connecticut's 5th | 54.6% | 43.9% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Connecticut's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Connecticut | |||
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| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Republican | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 5 | 7 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Connecticut's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Connecticut, May 2024 | |
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| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Ned Lamont
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| Lieutenant Governor | Susan Bysiewicz
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| Secretary of State | Stephanie Thomas
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| Attorney General | William Tong
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State legislature
Connecticut State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 24 | |
| Republican Party | 12 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 36 | |
Connecticut House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 98 | |
| Republican Party | 53 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 151 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until 2024.
Connecticut Party Control: 1992-2024
Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | I | I | I | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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