CT Presidential Election Results: How Biden/Trump Did

Connecticut — Joe Biden was projected to win Connecticut by the Associated Press just minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night. The projection came as a surprise to virtually no one.

Biden got about more than 981,000 votes compared to President Donald Trump's Trump's 685,000 for a 17 percentage point difference as of 8 p.m. Wednesday with 98 percent of precincts reporting. Voter turnout was around 73 percent as of Wednesday night.

Biden got more votes than former President Barack Obama in 2012, but not as many as he did in 2008. Biden got at least 84,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Trump got at least 12,000 more Connecticut votes in 2020 compared to 2016.

Connecticut has been a reliable blue state in presidential elections dating back to the early 1990s. The last Republican presidential candidate to win Connecticut was President George H.W. Bush in 1988. Connecticut voted for Bill Clinton in the 1992 election.

Hillary Clinton received more than 897,000 votes in Connecticut during the 2016 presidential election. President Donald Trump received more than 673,000. There was around a 13 percentage point difference between Clinton and Trump. Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson received more than 48,000 votes and Green Party candidate Jill Stein won nearly 23,000 votes. (To receive free, real-time local and state election updates and results from Patch click here.)

Stay on top of all the returns from across Connecticut and our five congressional districts by checking these stories throughout the night.

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Biden has out raised Trump in Connecticut this election. Biden raised nearly $11 million in individual contributions compared to Trump’s $4 million, according to Federal Election Commission data. Hillary Clinton raised more than $8.2 million from individual Connecticut donors in 2016 compared to around $1.1 million for Trump.

Both Biden and Trump unsurprisingly won the 2020 Connecticut presidential preference primaries. Connecticut’s primary took place long after both candidates were the presumptive nominees. Trump garnered more than 71,000 votes or nearly 80 percent of votes. Candidate Rocky De La Fuente received around 6,800 votes and nearly 13,000 Republican voters were uncommitted in the presidential primary.

Biden received more than 224,000 votes in Connecticut’s primary, which was nearly 85 percent of the vote. Bernie Sanders received more than 30,500 votes and Tulsi Gabbard got around 3,400 votes. Around 6,000 Democratic voters were uncommitted for the presidential primary.

Trump gained some ground for Republican presidential candidates in Connecticut in 2016 compared to the 2012 and 2008 elections, both in terms of the total amount of votes received and the percentage of votes.

More than 905,000 voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election compared to around 635,000 for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Obama received more than 997,000 votes in Connecticut in 2008 while Republican nominee John McCain received around 629,000.

Both Trump and Hillary Clinton made campaign stops in the state in 2016. The two candidates had ties to the state with Trump being a former Greenwich resident and Clinton attending Yale University in New Haven.

Trump held rally events in Hartford and at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. He chided then Gov. Dannel Malloy for not convincing GE to keep their headquarters in the state.

"How did you lose GE?" Trump asked the Sacred Heart crowd. "He's a bad governor. You've got a bad governor. He hasn't done his job."

Since then GE’s stock price has dropped about 75 percent and it was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average after more than a century. It also gave back more than $87 million in incentives to Massachusetts for the headquarters move.