Election Day, Connecticut
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More than 192,271 votes were cast in early voting around Connecticut and hundreds of thousands more were expected Tuesday.
Election Day 2025 in Connecticut saw voters choosing candidates for mayor, selectperson, city council and other town leaders.
Democrats made broad gains Tuesday in Connecticut’s first general election since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, flipping open top-of-ballot seats that had been controlled by Republicans in the Democratic cities of New Britain and Norwich and suburbs of Branford and Westport.
Vernon Mayor Dan Champagne, a Republican, narrowly defeated his Democratic challenger Jeremy Geller by 122 votes.
Tuesday marks Connecticut's municipal elections, a chance for people around the state to cast their vote, in many cases, for mayor or first selectman, their local council members or school boards. In all, 168 (of 169) towns across the state will hold an election, with the ballots varying from town to town.
CT Mirror is publishing results from local races across CT as the Secretary of the State's office reports them. Keep up with the tallies here.
According to Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas, most voters know when it's time to choose their mayor, but many don't know about smaller local races.
With multiple municipal elections running across the state Tuesday, voters turned out to cast their ballot at a steady pace. Some elections are expected to come down
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Result were still coming in Tuesday evening in two blue-collar central Connecticut cities where Democrats were looking to win back control of city hall while Republicans sought to maintain power.