Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2014

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Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2014
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Nominee Dannel Malloy Thomas C. Foley
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Nancy Wyman Heather Bond Somers
Popular vote554,314526,295
Percentage50.8%48.2%
Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2014 results by municipality.svg
Governor before election

Dannel Malloy
Democratic

Elected Governor

Dannel Malloy
Democratic

The 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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Incumbent Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy won re-election to a second term in office. Connecticut, unlike most states, holds separate primary elections for governor and lieutenant governor, with the winners then running together on the same ticket.

Dannel Malloy 88th Governor of Connecticut

Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician, who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017.

Malloy and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman were renominated unopposed. The Republicans nominated former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland and nominee for governor in 2010 Thomas C. Foley and Groton Town Councilor Heather Bond Somers. Independent candidate Joe Visconti, a former West Hartford Town Councilor and the Republican nominee for Connecticut's 1st congressional district in 2008 was running with Chester Harris, a former Republican Haddam School Board Member. Visconti suspended his campaign on November 2 and endorsed Foley. However, due to the suspension coming only two days before the election, Visconti's name remained on the ballot. Former State Representative Jonathan Pelto (D-Mansfield) [1] explored a third-party candidacy through a petition drive but was disqualified due to an inadequate number of signatures. [2]

Nancy Wyman Connecticut politician

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Thomas C. Foley American diplomat

Thomas Coleman Foley is an American politician and businessman. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2009 and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2010 and 2014.

Democratic primary

Governor

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

Connecticuts 4th congressional district

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Lieutenant Governor

Candidates

Declared

Results

Malloy and Wyman ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination, so no primaries were held.

Republican primary

Governor

2010 nominee Thomas C. Foley won the endorsement of the state party at the Republican State Convention on May 17, winning 57.1% of the vote. [5] Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney took 22.3% and 17.72%, respectively, meeting the 15% vote threshold and thus also qualified for the primary ballot. [6] Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti and former West Hartford Town Councilor Joe Visconti failed to get 15% of the vote at the convention, so neither automatically qualified for the ballot. Visconti began collecting signatures to petition his way onto the ballot. He needed the signatures of 8,190 registered Republican voters by June 10 in order to qualify and he started collecting signatures when primary petitions became available at the end of April. [7] Lauretti began to collect signatures a few days after the convention, but withdrew those petitions on May 22 to instead try to petition onto the ballot for lieutenant governor. [8]

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On June 6, Visconti announced that he was short of the required number of signatures, and with the filing deadline only 4 days away, was withdrawing from the race to run as an Independent instead. [9] Boughton suspended his campaign on June 18, primarily because he did not think Lauretti, his unofficial running mate, would qualify for the ballot, which would have meant Boughton failing to qualify for public financing. [10] He called for "party unity behind the endorsed Republican candidate, Tom Foley." [11]

Candidates

Declared
Withdrew
Declined

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Toni
Boucher		Mark
Boughton		Lawrence F.
Cafero		Martha
Dean		Thomas C.
Foley		Mark
Lauretti		John P.
McKinney		Joe
Visconti		OtherUndecided
Quinnipiac May 1–6, 2014443±4.7%—9%—5%39%3%8%4%2%30%
Quinnipiac Feb. 26–March 2, 2014477±4.5%2%11%——36%6%3%3%1%37%
Quinnipiac June 12–17, 2013283±5.8%—8%4%—36%—11%—1%41%

Results

Republican primary results [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Thomas C. Foley44,14455.58
Republican John P. McKinney35,28244.42
Total votes79,426100

Lieutenant Governor

Although separate primary elections are held for governor and lieutenant governor, candidates for each office often join together to form unofficial "tickets". Heather Bond Somers had originally been running on such a "ticket" with Mark Boughton, [27] but she withdrew from the arrangement. [28] [29] Boughton later announced Mark Lauretti as his new running mate. [30] This arrangement came to an end when Boughton withdrew, primarily because he did not think Lauretti would qualify for the ballot, which would have meant Boughton failing to qualify for public financing. [10] David M. Walker teamed up with John P. McKinney. [31] Bacchiochi did not join any "ticket". [32]

Bacchiochi won the endorsement of the state party at the Republican State Convention on May 17, winning 50.9% of the vote. Somers took 31.5% and Walker got 17.4%, meaning they both also qualified for the primary ballot. [28] Lauretti attempted to petition his way onto the ballot; he was unsuccessful, filing only 6,723 of the required 8,190 signatures. [33]

Candidates

Declared
Withdrew

Results

Republican primary results [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Heather Bond Somers26,98034.46
Republican Penny Bacchiochi26,31133.6
Republican David M. Walker25,01431.94
Total votes78,305100

Independents

Candidates

Withdrew

Disqualified

General election

Debates

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [40] TossupNovember 3, 2014
Sabato's Crystal Ball [41] Lean DNovember 3, 2014
Rothenberg Political Report [42] TossupNovember 3, 2014
Real Clear Politics [43] TossupNovember 3, 2014

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Dannel
Malloy (D)		Thomas C.
Foley (R)		Joe
Visconti (I)		OtherUndecided
Quinnipiac University October 28–November 2, 2014926± 3.2%43%42%8%1%6%
47%44%—1%7%
Public Policy Polling October 30–November 1, 2014931± 3.2%44%41%6%—8%
47%44%——8%
Rasmussen Reports October 29–30, 2014977± 3%48%47%—2%4%
Quinnipiac University October 22–27, 2014838± 3.4%43%43%7%1%6%
44%46%—1%8%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 20141,267± 4%40%40%3%0%17%
Quinnipiac University October 14–20, 20141,010± 3.1%43%42%9%1%6%
45%45%—2%8%
Rasmussen Reports October 14–16, 2014980± 3.5%43%50%—2%4%
Quinnipiac University October 1–6, 20141,085± 3%43%43%9%—5%
46%46%—1%7%
Public Policy Polling October 2–5, 2014861± 3.3%43%35%9%—14%
45%39%——16%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 20141,284± 3%41%41%3%1%14%
Quinnipiac University September 3–8, 20141,304± 2.7%40%46%7%1%6%
43%49%—1%7%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 20141,808± 3%42%41%—3%14%
Rasmussen Reports August 18–19, 2014750± 4%38%45%—7%10%
Gravis Marketing August 4–7, 2014440± 5%38%46%——16%
Anzalone Liszt Grove July 28–29, 2014900± ?46%46%——8%
Vox Populi Polling July 27–28, 2014550± 4.2%35%34%—3% [44] 27%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 20141,177± ?41%48%—4%8%
Quinnipiac University May 1–6, 20141,668± 2.4%43%43%—1%12%
Quinnipiac University February 26–March 2, 20141,878± 2.3%42%42%—1%14%
Quinnipiac University June 12–17, 20131,154± 2.9%40%43%—1%16%

Results

Results by county Malloy 40-50% 50-60% Foley 50-60% Connecticut Governor Election Results by County, 2014.svg
Results by county
Connecticut's gubernatorial election, 2014 [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Dannel Malloy529,55248.49%
Working Families Dannel Malloy24,7622.27%
Total Dannel Malloy (Incumbent)554,31450.76%
Republican Thomas C. Foley503,99846.15%
Independent Thomas C. Foley22,2972.04%
Total Thomas C. Foley 526,29548.19%
Petitioning CandidateJoe Visconti11,4561.05%
Total votes1,092,065100.00%

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