CT Congress Election Results: Unofficial Results

CONNECTICUT — All five of Connecticut's U.S. representatives are projected to win re-election.

The last result came Wednesday after Republican David X. Sullivan has concended to U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes in the 5th Congressional District.

"While I am personally disappointed in the outcome of the election last night, I respect the results and offer my congratulations to Congresswoman Jahana Hayes," he said in a statement. "There are many challenges ahead for our state and nation, and we should all work together, in a spirit of cooperation, to resolve the issues before us."

Incumbents Joe Courtney (D-2), John Larson (D-1), Rosa DeLauro (D-3) and Jim Himes (D-4) were projected winners by either NBC News or the Associated Press.

DeLauro faced her strongest challenge in years from Republican Margaret Streicker. DeLauro declared victory after NBC News projected her to win. She was also confident that a number of absentee ballots that hadn't been counted as of 11 p.m. would be in her favor.

Democratic legislators have filled all five congressional seats since the 2008 election when Chris Shays lost to now-incumbent Jim Himes in the 4th district. His strongest challenge after being elected was in 2010 where he beat Republican challenger Dan Debicella by more than four percentage points.

The newest member of Connecticut’s legislative delegation is Hayes. She beat Republican candidate Manny Santos by more than 10 percentage points in 2018.

Rep. Joe Courtney was first elected to Congress in 2006, Rosa DeLauro was first elected in 1990 and Larson in 1998. DeLauro and Courtney faced close elections when first elected, but haven’t faced close races since.

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1st Congressional District

• John Larson, Democrat (Incumbent) 206,021
• Mary Fay, Republican 116,667
• Thomas McCormick, Green Party 4,170

2nd Congressional District

• Joe Courtney, Democrat (Incumbent) 217,864
• Justin Anderson, Republican 140,227
• Cassandra Martineau, Green Party 4,934
• Daniel Reale, Libertarian Party 3,887

3rd Congressional District

• Rosa DeLauro, Democrat (Incumbent) 174,021
• Margaret Streicker, Republican 132,196
• Justin Paglino, Green Party 4,297

4th Congressional District with 91.79 percent of precincts reported

• Jim Himes, Democrat (Incumbent) 181,541
• Jonathan Riddle, Republican 112,442
• Brian Merlen, Independent Party 4,463

5th Congressional District

• Jahana Hayes, Democrat (Incumbent) 188,592
• David X. Sullivan, Republican 150,384
• Bruze Walczak, Independent Party 4,950

1st Congressional District

John Larson

Larson is a lifelong East Hartford resident and lives there with his wife Leslie and three children Carolyn, Laura and Raymond.

He served 12 years in the Connecticut State Senate and has been the 1st district’s representative since 1999.

Some of Larson’s primary goals in Congress include bolstering manufacturing jobs in Connecticut and green energy, according to his campaign biography.

He is also the chairman of the Ways and Means Social Security subcommittee and author of The Social Security 2100 bill, which would increase the cap on social security taxes from the current $132,900. It would also gradually increase the contribution rate into social security in order to keep the system solvent.

Mary Fay

Mary Fay has been a West Hartford resident for 17 years and is an East Hartford native, according to her campaign biography.

She works in the financial services sector. She was a senior vice president at GE Capital and ING and a senior vice president and general manager at Sun Life Financial.

She has served two terms on the West Hartford Town Council. Fay is married and has a 10-year-old daughter named Katie.

Fay opposes a single-payer healthcare system and instead supports free market healthcare. She supports offering law enforcement additional training, keeping safety officers in schools, mental health initiatives and opposes defunding police.

On education, she supports bolstering vocation and technical schools for students who want to take up a trade upon graduation.

She wants to enhance financial aid programs that will incentivize students to stay in-state after graduation.

Fay also wants to move teachers off of the state pension system and allow them to participate in Social Security instead along with personal retirement plans.

Thomas McCormick

Thomas McCormick is a West Hartford resident running under the Green Party. He has worked as a teacher, contractor and in the real estate industry.He has no previous elected experience.

McCormick supports universal healthcare, debt reduction and cleaning up of all Superfund contaminated sites.

"I support Economic Democracy to decrease income and wealth disparities, Universal Healthcare, Debt Reduction, a Strong United Nations with implementation of the Universal Declaration of Rights, cleaning the Superfund sites and Equal Rights for all," McCormick told Patch.

2nd Congressional District

Joe Courtney

Courtney's earlier political experiences includes a four-term stint in the state House of Representatives where he represented Vernon. He lives in Vernon with his wife Audrey and two children Robert and Elizabeth, according to his campaign profile.

He was the only member of Connecticut’s House delegation to vote against the Troubled Assets Relief Program, which provided bailout funds to financial institutions during the Great Recession. He said the program was “ill-advised” and banks continued to foreclosure on borrowers, according to The Day.

Courtney serves on the House Armed Services Committee and has been an advocate for submarine building in Connecticut, which supports a large number of jobs in the congressional district. He has also pushed for funding for the military submarine base in New London. His colleagues in the House sometimes refer to him as "Two Sub Joe" due to his advocacy for submarine building.

Justin Anderson

Republican Justin Anderson is a retired corrections officer and East Haddam resident. He continues to serve in the National Guard and has been in the Connecticut Army National Guard for more than 30 years. He has been deployed four times since Sept. 11, including two combat tours in Afghanistan.

He was called back to active duty to work as a military liaison officer to help distribute personal protective equipment to towns, first responders, hospitals and local businesses.

Anderson resigned from his federal job in 2019 in order to campaign for the congressional race.

Anderson is currently an elected member of the East Haddam Planning and Zoning Commission.
He supports responsible gun ownership and said that current members of Congress know little about firearm safety.

Anderson said he opposes the Green New Deal proposal and instead believes smaller steps should be taken for renewable energy goals.

"The near future will determine the direction of America…forever," Anderson told Patch. "What Washington needs is sound judgement and ideas that benefit both sides of the aisle. This includes less government, the defense of our constitutional rights, and most importantly, a move away from division and hate."

He believes in continued military funding and a strong military.

His wife Darlene is an active duty U.S. Army service member. They have five children.

Cassandra Martineau

Green Party Cassandra Martineau is a Willimantic resident and has been a group home caretaker for 30 years. She was previously elected to her local Zoning Board of Appeals and is a state leader for the Women’s March on Washington.

She supports the Green New Deal and Medicare for all proposals and additional funding for low-income schools.

Daniel Reale

Libertarian Party candidate Daniel Reale is also running for the 2nd Congressional District.

3rd Congressional District

Rosa DeLauro

Democrat Rosa DeLauro has represented Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District since she was elected in 1990. She grew up in New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood and her mother Luisa DeLauro was the longest-serving member of the New Haven Board of Aldermen.

She is currently the Democratic chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

She believes the minimum wage should be raised and in paid federal sick and family leave. She is also an advocate for women’s rights and introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act in the House of Representatives.She supported the Affordable Care Act.

DeLauro also supports lower student interest rates for federal loans and for increasing the maximum Pell grant award.

Margaret Streicker

Republican Margaret Streicker is a real estate developer and daughter of real estate mogul John H. Streicker, according to the Hearst Connecticut.

Streicker’s priorities include lowering the price of healthcare, the cost of prescriptions for seniors and helping Connecticut grow its job base, according to her campaign profile.

Justin Paglino

Green Party candidate Justin Paglino is a doctor who specializes in medical virology research. He graduated from Brown University’s medical school and earned his PhD from Yale University.

He supports Medicare for all and ranked choice voting. He also supports universal pre-K, public college and trade school.

"I'm running because I felt these issues needed a candidate," he told Patch. "If you want something, you have to vote for it. And in order to vote for it, you need a candidate who supports it. If you want the same policies that I do, I am the candidate that gives you the opportunity to vote for them."

Paglino also supports the Green New Deal proposal, a large federal push to bring more renewable energy to the country in an effort to get the country off of fossil fuels and create jobs. He also supports reducing the Pentagon’s budget and term limits in politics.

4th Congressional District

Jim Himes

Himes previously worked in the worked in business and non-profit affordable housing. He is a Rhodes scholar and earned a Masters degree from Oxford University and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He raised his family in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich.
Among his priorities are rebuilding rail and highway infrastructure in the U.S. and closing educational gaps, according to his campaign profile.

He supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15. He supported the Wall Street reform bill and wants to reform the home mortgage industry to better help borrowers.

Himes was against the SALT deduction caps that ended up increasing federal taxes on middle-class families in Connecticut.

Himes cosponsored the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which passed the House, but was blocked in the Senate. The bill would’ve implemented universal background checks for gun purchases.

Jonathan Riddle

Republican candidate Jonathan Riddle is the director of Altium, a financial consultant in Purchase, New York. He grew up in Westchester County and has lived in Connecticut for the past your years.
Riddle believes that Connecticut needs a major change to its transportation infrastructure, according to his campaign profile

He also believes the country needs better treatment and prevention for opioid misuse, including revamping treatment programs and reforming criminal justice system for drug use.

Riddle also said he believes President Donald Trump’s economic policies have bolstered growth in the country and that business development needs to be renewed in the 4th District.

Riddle also wants to propose term limits in Congress with four terms for the House and two for the Senate.

Brian Merlen

Independent Party candidate Brian Merlen works in video production. He doesn’t have previous elected political experience.

Merlen told Patch that the biggest issue facing Connecticut is the drug addiction crisis.

"I have advocated for multitudes of issues, but the one I am primarily known for involved getting every state to join in our civil litigation against Purdue Pharma," he told Patch. "I am an aggressive fighter from beating cancer, to staging protests at police stations, to taking over a public park while advocating on mental health, I have been fortunate to fight besides some of the hardest activists in our state and others."

He supports Medicare for all, more accountability for institutions and more transparency in government.

5th Congressional District

Jahana Hayes

Jahana Hayes is running for a second term after first being elected in 2018. She is a Waterbury native and former teacher in the city who won the National Teacher of the Year award in 2016.
She sits on the House of Representatives committees for education, labor and agriculture.

She proposed the Helping Hospitals In Need Act, which would provide $100 billion in funding to battle the coronavirus and help states that had high per capita hospitalizations like Connecticut.
Hayes is a co-sponsor of the Medicare for All proposal. She also co-sponsored a bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for all Americans and set a $2,000 out-of-pocket maximum on prescriptions for those on Medicare.

She is in favor of expanding early childhood education so families within 150 percent of a state’s median income wouldn’t pay more than 7 percent of their income on childcare. Hayes also wants the federal government to fully fund the Individual with Disabilities in Education Act so that 40 percent of special education costs are covered by the federal government.

She also supported legislation to invest $100 billion to address critical school infrastructure needs like HVAC systems.

David X. Sullivan

Sullivan has been a federal prosecutor for 30 years. He served as the national coordinator the U.S. Department of Justice Money Laundering/Asset Forfeiture unit. He was born in Danbury and grew up in New Fairfield.

Sullivan is married to attorney Wendy Sullivan and has five children and three rescue dogs.
Sullivan said he would work toward more effective policing, including more accountability and de-escalation training, but that calls to defund the police or reallocate police funding were wrong, according to his campaign profile.

Sullivan is against Medicare for All proposals and said it would destroy Connecticut’s private insurance industry and result in thousands of jobs being lost.

He also said the U.S. needs to bring its medical supply chain back home, which can help support jobs in Connecticut and elsewhere.

Sullivan said he supports the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which protects gun manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits when guns are used unlawfully.

Bruce Walczak

Walczak is a relocation consultant from Newtown. He said he is running because polarized politics is causing too much dysfunction in Washington, D.C., according to Hearst Connecticut.