Klinck Wins Big in East Haddam

Republicans and Democrats headed to the polls today to vote in the Connecticut primaries. Here are the results for East Haddam.

In the Republican Primary:

U.S. Senator 

• Linda McMahon won with 270 votes
• Christopher Shays had 95 votes

Representative in Congress

• Paul Formica won with 239 votes
• Daria Novak had 112 votes

In the Democratic Primary:

U.S. Senator

• Christopher Murphy won with 300 votes
• Susan Bysiewicz had 219 votes

State Senator

• James Crawford had 86 votes
• Mary Ellen Klinck won with 438 votes

Registrar of voters reported that 365 Republicans and 525 Democrats voted in today's primary in East Haddam.

Statewide Election Update:

As expected, Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy will face off in November for the right to succeed Joe Lieberman in the U.S. Senate.

With 77% of the precincts reporting at 10 p.m., McMahon was soundly defeating former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays with 76% of the vote. Meanwhile, Murphy cruised by Bysiewicz, the Middletown native and former Secretary of the State, by a comfortable 66% to 34% margin.

In the Fifth Congressional District, Elizabeth Esty emerged on the Democratic side with a convincing 43% to 34% margin (as of 10 p.m.) over the embattled Chris Donovan, once considered the strong frontrunner before a campaign-finance scandal involving several members of his staff, and dark-horse Dan Roberti (23%).

Republicans in the Fifth District went down to the wire, with favorite Andrew Roraback pulling it out with 34% of the vote, followed by Mark Greenberg (28%), Lisa Wilson-Foley (19%) and Justin Bernier (19%) as of 10 p.m. 

In the Second Congressional District, East Lyme restaurateur Paul Formica was running away with the Republican primary over Madison’s Daria Novak by about a 2-to-1 ratio, as of 9 p.m. and was declared the winner.