Presidential elections in Connecticut

Number of elections	60
Voted Democratic	22
Voted Republican	23
Voted Whig	3
Voted Democratic-Republican	4
Voted Federalist	6
Voted other	2[a]
Voted for winning candidate	40
Voted for losing candidate	20

Connecticut is astate in theNew England region of theUnited States.^[1] One of the originalThirteen Colonies, Connecticut has participated in all sixtyU.S. presidential elections since theAmerican Revolution.^[2] In the early days of the United States, Connecticut was known for supporting theconservative Federalist Party.^[3] In theSecond Party System, Connecticut leaned towards the anti-Jackson candidates.^[4] Following theCivil War, Connecticut was aswing state for a long time until 1896.^[5] Thereafter until 1932, Connecticut was a Republican stronghold. During this period,Connecticut Republican Party chairmanJ. Henry Roraback built up apolitical machine which was "efficient, conservative, penurious, and in absolute control".^[6]

During theGreat Depression, Connecticut began to pivot in support of Democratic candidates. After that, although the Republican Party won Connecticut several times in the presidential election, its advantage was no longer as significant as it had previously been.^[7] Since 1992, the state has voted consistently for the Democratic candidates.^[8]

In 2020,Joe Biden became the first candidate in Connecticut history to win over one million votes in the state, scoring nearly 1.1 million votes.

Connecticut is a signatory of theNational Popular Vote Interstate Compact, aninterstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2023,^[update] it has not yetgone into force.^[9]

As a part ofNew England, Connecticut was the stronghold of theFederalist Party. It voted for Federalist candidates in presidential elections from 1796 to 1816.^[3] Before 1820, its electors were appointed bystate legislature.^[10]

The election of 1824 was a complexrealigning election following the collapse of the prevailingDemocratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by theHouse of Representatives under the provisions of theTwelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote.^[30] It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams acorrupt bargain.^[31]

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country.^[56] The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent ofslavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about theAmerican Civil War.^[57]

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