East Windsor is a town in Hartford County,Connecticut,United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 11,190 at the 2020 census. The town has five villages:Broad Brook,Melrose,Scantic,Warehouse Point and Windsorville.
South Windsor is a town in Hartford County,Connecticut,United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 26,918 at the 2020 census.
Windsor is a town in Hartford County,Connecticut,United States,and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital,Hartford. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population of Windsor was 29,492 at the 2020 census.
Eastford is a town in Windham County,Connecticut,United States. The town is part of the Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 1,649 at the 2020 census.
Since Connecticut became a U.S. state in 1788,it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives,beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years in general elections,with their re-election staggered. Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were elected by the Connecticut General Assembly. Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House,depending on population,to two-year terms. Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2000 United States Census.
Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer,author,and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Connecticut since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Connecticut's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. Before being elected to Congress,Murphy was a member of both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly,serving two terms each in the Connecticut House of Representatives (1999–2003) and the Connecticut Senate (2003–2007).
Gary LeBeau was a member of the Connecticut State Senate from the third district,serving the towns of East Hartford,South Windsor,East Windsor,and Ellington. LeBeau was first elected to the State Senate in 1996. He retired after 18 years in office.
John Andrew Kissel is an American politician. Kissel,a Republican,has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993.
Tony Hwang is an American real estate agent and politician. A Republican,he is a member of the Connecticut State Senate,for the 28th District,which covers parts of Fairfield County. Previously,Hwang as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 134th District in the Connecticut General Assembly. Hwang became a state representative in 2008 and won re-election in 2010 and 2012. He was elected to the state Senate in 2014 and subsequently reelected. He is the assistant Senate Minority Leader.
Jason L. McCoy is the former mayor of Vernon,Connecticut,and a trial lawyer. In 2009,McCoy was elected to his first term in 2007. McCoy was re-elected as mayor. He had served on the Vernon Town Council and was the deputy mayor of Vernon from 2005 to 2007. In 2009,McCoy was one of six mayors in Connecticut chosen by the Governor M. Jodi Rell to work closely with state officials and lawmakers to identify savings and recommend mandate relief to help close Connecticut's state budget shortfall. McCoy served as mayor of a municipality that holds town meetings to pass the mayor's yearly proposed municipal budget,which can then be sent to referendum for approval by privately cast ballot. During McCoy's two terms as mayor of Vernon he proposed and passed four municipal budgets. The Town of Vernon municipal budgets during McCoy's terms as mayor resulted in the municipal tax rate or mil rate needed to fund the municipal budget being reduced in the 2008–09,2009–10 budgets,the 2010–11 tax rate or mil rate remained the same. In the 2011–12 budget the tax rate was cut which resulted in a taxes cut to the taxpayers in the Town of Vernon,Connecticut. The 2011–12 budget proposal was passed and adopted at the annual town meeting as opposed to being sent to referendum.
Len Fasano is a Republican member of the Connecticut Senate,representing the 34th District since 2003. Fasano was sworn in as Senate Republican President Pro Tempore in January 2017. Under the new leadership role Senator Fasano will lead a Republican caucus with considerably more control over the Senate's agenda than in previous years as a result of a power sharing agreement negotiated after Republicans gained three seats in the Connecticut Senate,creating a tie for the first time since 1893. Previously,he had served as the Senate Minority Leader since 2015.
Henri Martin is a Republican member of the Connecticut State Senate. First elected to the Senate in 2014,he has represented Connecticut's 31st State Senate district since 2015.
Kevin C. Kelly is an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut. A Republican,he has been a member of the Connecticut State Senate since 2011,elected from the 21st District. He was the Senate Republican Minority Leader from 2021-2024.
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.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Connecticut.
William Haskell is an American politician and a former member of the Connecticut State Senate,representing District 26 from 2019 to 2023. The district includes the towns of Redding,Ridgefield,Wilton,and parts of Bethel,Weston,Westport,and New Canaan. Haskell is a member of the Democratic Party,and was a member of the State Senate Democratic Caucus. When Haskell originally won election to the 26th District,he became the first Democrat to represent the district in over 50 years.
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.
Paul Cicarella is an American politician who is currently serving as a Connecticut State senator representing the 34th District,which encompasses Wallingford,Connecticut,North Haven,Connecticut,East Haven,Connecticut,and some surrounding towns. Cicarella is a member of the Republican Party.
Maryam Khan is a Pakistan-born American politician who has been a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives since winning a special election to the 5th House District of Windsor and Hartford in 2022. She is the first Muslim elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives and the second elected to the Connecticut General Assembly after State Senator Saud Anwar.
Connecticut's 3rd State Senate district elects one member of the Connecticut State Senate. It consists of the towns of East Hartford,East Windsor,South Windsor,and part of Ellington. It is currently represented by Democrat Saud Anwar,who has served since 2019.
