2012 Connecticut Senate election

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2012 Connecticut State Senate election

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November 6, 2012

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All 36 seats in the Connecticut State Senate
19 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Donald Williams	John McKinney
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader since	July 1, 2004	June 2007
Leader's seat	29th	28th
Seats before	22	14
Seats after	22	14
Seat change

Results:
Democratic hold Democratic gain
Republican hold Republican gain

President pro tempore of the Senate before election

Donald Williams
Democratic

Elected President pro tempore of the Senate

Donald Williams
Democratic

Results

District 1

Connecticut's 1st State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John Fonfara (incumbent)	20,678	80.7
	Republican	Barbara Ruhe	4,447	17.4
	Green	Jeffery Russell	488	1.9
Total votes			25,613	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 2

Connecticut's 2nd State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Eric D. Coleman (incumbent)	31,114	85.5
	Republican	Malvi Garcia Lennon	5,276	14.5
Total votes			36,390	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 3

Connecticut's 3rd State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Gary LeBeau (incumbent)	27,640	70.6
	Republican	Hector Reveron	11,531	29.4
Total votes			39,171	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 4

Connecticut's 4th State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Steve Cassano (incumbent)	24,930	56.5
	Republican	Cheri Ann Pelletier	19,184	43.5
Total votes			44,114	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 5

Connecticut's 5th State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Beth Bye (incumbent)	34,542	100.0
Total votes			34,542	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 6

Connecticut's 6th State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Terry Gerratana (incumbent)	21,212	72.1
	Republican	Dwight Blint	8,211	27.9
Total votes			29,423	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 7

Connecticut's 7th State Senate district election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John Kissel (incumbent)	22,182	50.6
	Democratic	Karen Jarmoc	21,674	49.4
Total votes			43,856	100.0
	Republican hold

District 8

District 9

District 10

District 11

District 12

District 13

District 14

District 15

District 16

District 17

District 18

District 19

District 20

District 21

District 22

District 23

District 24

District 25

District 26

District 27

District 28

District 29

District 30

District 31

District 32

District 33

District 34

District 35

District 36

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