Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut since 2019. She previously served as the 72nd secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011 and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999.
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006,losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.
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. In July 2019,he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.
Gayle Slossberg is an American politician. A Democrat,Slossberg is a former seven term Connecticut State Senator having served between 2005 and 2019.
Toni Nathaniel Harp is an American politician who served as the 50th Mayor of New Haven,Connecticut. Harp,a Democrat,was previously a state senator in Connecticut from 1993 to 2013. A resident of New Haven,Harp represented the western half of the city as well as part of West Haven while in the Connecticut Senate.
Michael P. Lawlor is an American politician,criminal justice professor,and lawyer from Connecticut. A Democrat,he served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1987 to 2011,representing the 99th district in East Haven. Lawlor resigned from the legislature on January 4,2011 to serve in Dan Malloy's administration as undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning at the Office of Policy and Management.
Denise Lynn Nappier is an American who served as Connecticut State Treasurer,from 1999 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected in 1998 and was re-elected in 2002,2006,2010 and 2014. She is the first African-American woman elected to statewide office in the history of Connecticut,the first woman elected State Treasurer in Connecticut history,and the first African-American woman elected to serve as state treasurer in the United States. In 2011,she was named to the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
The 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 2,2010,to elect the 88th Governor of Connecticut. Incumbent Republican Governor Jodi Rell had announced in a press conference in Hartford on November 9,2009,that she would not seek re-election in 2010. The sites Cook Political Report and CQ Politics both rated the election as a toss-up. This was the first open seat gubernatorial election in the state since 1994. As of 2024,this is the last time the Governor’s office in Connecticut changed partisan control.
Richard Nelson "Oz" Griebel was an American banker,lawyer,and political candidate. He ran as a Republican primary candidate in the 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election,and as an independent in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
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.
Gary A. Winfield is an American politician from the state of Connecticut and member of the Democratic Party. He serves in the Connecticut State Senate,representing the 10th district. From 2009 to 2014 he served as a State Representative from the 94th Assembly District. Winfield served as Deputy Majority Leader in his tenure as a State Representative.
Lubbie Harper Jr. is an American lawyer and judge who was the third African American to become a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,serving from 2011 through 2012. While seconded to the court in 2008,he cast the deciding vote in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health,a ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in Connecticut. Harper also served as a justice on the Connecticut Superior Court (1997–2005) and on the Connecticut Appellate Court (2005–2011).
Luke Aaron Bronin is an American politician and lawyer who was the 67th mayor of Hartford,Connecticut,serving from January 1,2016,to January 1,2024.
The 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with the election of Connecticut's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. This race's Democratic margin of victory was the closest to the national average of 3.1 points.
Robert Vincent Stefanowski is an American businessman and politician.
Lisa Wilson-Foley is an American entrepreneur,former political candidate,and white collar criminal. She owns the rehabilitation company Allstar Therapy,the family entertainment business Blue Fox Enterprises,and the medical testing company Swallowing Diagnostics. She was a co-owner of the Hartford FoxForce from 1999-2007.
The 2018 Connecticut Senate election was held on November 6,2018,concurrently with the elections for the Connecticut House of Representatives,to elect members to the Connecticut General Assembly. All 36 seats in the Connecticut Senate were up for election. The election resulted in Democrats expanding control in both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly,ending the split control in the Senate,that had been in place since the 2016 elections. Primary elections were held on August 14,2018.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Hartford,Connecticut.
Since the 1870s,mayoral elections have been held every two years to elect the mayor of New Haven,Connecticut.
As of July 2023,there were about 36,000 electric vehicles registered in Connecticut. About 25% of vehicles registered in the state between July and December 2021 were electric.
