Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the United States. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, Connecticut has participated in all sixty U.S. presidential elections since the American Revolution. In the early days of the United States, Connecticut was known for supporting the conservative Federalist Party. In the Second Party System, Connecticut leaned towards the anti-Jackson candidates. Following the Civil War, Connecticut was a swing state for a long time until 1896. Thereafter until 1932, Connecticut was a Republican stronghold. During this period, Connecticut Republican Party chairman J. Henry Roraback built up a political machine which was "efficient, conservative, penurious, and in absolute control".
During the Great Depression, Connecticut began to pivot in support of Democratic candidates. After that, although the Republican Party won Connecticut several times in the presidential election, its advantage was no longer as significant as it had previously been. Since 1992, the state has voted consistently for the Democratic candidates.
In 2020, Joe Biden became the first candidate in Connecticut history to win over one million votes in the state, scoring nearly 1.1 million votes.
Connecticut is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. it has not yet gone into force.
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1788–89 to 1820 As a part of New England, Connecticut was the stronghold of the Federalist Party. It voted for Federalist candidates in presidential elections from 1796 to 1816. Before 1820, its electors were appointed by state legislature. + Year Winner Runner-upCandidate Votes%Candidate Votes% 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 3,871 Unpledged electors 728 9
1824 The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain. + YearWinnerRunner-upRunner-upRunner-upCandidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%) 1824 7,494() 1,965() 8
1828 to 1856 + Year Winner Runner-upOther candidateCandidate Votes%Candidate Votes%Candidate Votes% 1828 13,829 4,448 8 1832 18,155 11,269 3,409 8 1836 19,294 18,799 8 1840 31,598 25,281 8 1844 32,832 29,831 6 1848 30,318 27,051 5,005 6 1852 33,249 30,359 3,161 6 1856 42,717 34,997 2,615 6
1860 The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War. + Year Winner Runner-upRunner-upRunner-upCandidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%)Candidate Votes(%) 1860 43,486() 17,364() 16,558() 3,337 () 6
1864 to present + Year Winner Runner-upOther candidateCandidate Votes%Candidate Votes%Candidate Votes% 44,693 42,288 6 50,788 47,844 6 50,314 45,695 6 61,927 59,033 774 6 67,071 64,411 868 6 67,182 65,898 2,493 6 74,920 74,584 4,234 6 82,395 77,032 4,026 6 110,285 56,740 4,336 6 102,572 74,014 1,617 6 111,089 72,909 4,543 7 112,915 68,255 5,113 7 74,561 68,324 34,129 7 106,514 99,786 5,179 7 229,238 120,721 10,350 7 246,322 110,184 42,416 7 296,641 252,085 3,029 7 288,420 281,632 20,480 8 382,129 278,685 21,805 8 417,621 361,819 1,091 8 435,146 390,527 5,097 8 437,754 423,297 13,713 8 611,012 481,649 2,244 8 711,837 405,079 Others 205 8 657,055 565,813 Write-ins 15 8 826,269 390,996 Write-ins 1,313 8 621,561 556,721 76,650 8 810,763 555,498 17,239 8 719,261 647,895 7,101 8 677,210 541,732 171,807 8 890,877 569,597 4,826 8 750,241 676,584 14,071 8 682,318 578,313 348,771 8 735,740 483,109 139,523 8 816,015 561,094 64,452 8 857,488 693,826 12,969 7 997,773 629,428 19162 7 905,083 634,892 12,580 7 897,572 673,215 48,676 7 1,080,831 715,291 20,227 7 992,053 736,918 14,281 7
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