{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ct",
  "name": "Connecticut",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ct",
  "slug": "ct",
  "state": "ct",
  "state_name": "Connecticut",
  "state_id": "us-ct"
 },
 "question": "How did Connecticut vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Christopher S. Murphy (Democrat) won by 18.9 points",
  "value": 18.9,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Christopher S. Murphy (Democrat) 58.6%, Matthew M. Corey (Republican) 39.7%, Robert Finley Hyde (Independent) 0.9%",
   "1,708,259 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Connecticut since 1976",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 14 and Republicans in 2.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       -16.499,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       13.428,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       -4.323,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       29.915,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       0.726,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       20.693,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       36.03,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       32.778,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       29.043,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       34.224,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       30.107,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       11.941,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       11.753,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       28.573,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       20.18,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       18.875,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1361666,
    "votes": {
     "Lowell P. Weicker Jr.": 785683,
     "Gloria Schaffer": 561018,
     "Robert Barnabei": 14407
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1356075,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher J. Dodd": 763969,
     "James L. Buckley": 581884,
     "Gerard G. Brennan": 5336,
     "Louis Zemel": 4772
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1083508,
    "votes": {
     "Lowell P. Weicker Jr.": 545987,
     "Anthony Toby Moffett": 499146,
     "Lucien P. Difazio Jr.": 30212,
     "James A. Lewis": 8163
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 976933,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher J. Dodd": 632695,
     "Roger W. Eddy": 340438,
     "Edward J. Mccallum Jr.": 3800
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1383526,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Lieberman": 688499,
     "Lowell P. Weicher Jr.": 678454,
     "Howard Avory Grayson Jr.": 12409,
     "Melissa M. Fisher": 4154
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1500661,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher J. Dodd": 882569,
     "Brook Johnson": 572036,
     "Richard D. Gregory": 35315,
     "Howard A. Grayson Jr.": 10741
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1079664,
    "votes": {
     "Joseph I. Lieberman": 723842,
     "Jerry Labriola": 334833,
     "Gary R. Garneau": 20989
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 964457,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher J. Dodd": 628306,
     "Gary Franks": 312177,
     "William Kozak": 12261,
     "Lois A. Grasso": 6517,
     "Wildey J. Moore": 5196
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1311261,
    "votes": {
     "Joseph I. Lieberman": 828902,
     "Phil Giordano": 448077,
     "William Kozak Jr.": 25509,
     "Willdey J. Moore": 8773
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1424726,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher J. Dodd": 945347,
     "Jack C. Orchulli": 457749,
     "Timothy A. Knibbs": 12442,
     "Leonard H. Rasch": 9188
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1134777,
    "votes": {
     "Joseph I. Lieberman": 564095,
     "Ned Lamont": 450844,
     "Alan Schlesinger": 109198,
     "Ralph A. Ferrucci": 5922,
     "Timothy A. Knibbs": 4638
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1153115,
    "votes": {
     "Richard Blumenthal": 636040,
     "Linda E. Mcmahon": 498341,
     "Warren B. Mosler": 11275,
     "John Mertens": 6735
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1511764,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher S. Murphy": 828761,
     "Linda E. Mcmahon": 651089,
     "Paul Passarelli": 25045
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1596276,
    "votes": {
     "Richard Blumenthal": 1008714,
     "Dan Carter": 552621,
     "Richard Lion": 18190,
     "Jeffery Russell": 16713
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1386840,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher S. Murphy": 825579,
     "Matthew Corey": 545717,
     "Richard Lion": 8838,
     "Jeff Russell": 6618
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1708259,
    "votes": {
     "Christopher S. Murphy": 1000695,
     "Matthew M. Corey": 678256,
     "Robert Finley Hyde": 14879,
     "Justin C. Paglino": 14422
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Christopher S. Murphy (D) 58.6%",
    "Matthew M. Corey (R) 39.7%",
    "18.9 pts",
    "1,708,259"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Christopher S. Murphy (D) 59.5%",
    "Matthew Corey (R) 39.4%",
    "20.2 pts",
    "1,386,840"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Richard Blumenthal (D) 63.2%",
    "Dan Carter (R) 34.6%",
    "28.6 pts",
    "1,596,276"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Christopher S. Murphy (D) 54.8%",
    "Linda E. Mcmahon (R) 43.1%",
    "11.8 pts",
    "1,511,764"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Richard Blumenthal (D) 55.2%",
    "Linda E. Mcmahon (R) 43.2%",
    "11.9 pts",
    "1,153,115"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Joseph I. Lieberman (I) 49.7%",
    "Ned Lamont (D) 39.7%",
    "10.0 pts",
    "1,134,777"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Christopher J. Dodd (D) 66.4%",
    "Jack C. Orchulli (R) 32.1%",
    "34.2 pts",
    "1,424,726"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Joseph I. Lieberman (D) 63.2%",
    "Phil Giordano (R) 34.2%",
    "29.0 pts",
    "1,311,261"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Christopher J. Dodd (D) 65.1%",
    "Gary Franks (R) 32.4%",
    "32.8 pts",
    "964,457"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Joseph I. Lieberman (D) 67.0%",
    "Jerry Labriola (R) 31.0%",
    "36.0 pts",
    "1,079,664"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Christopher J. Dodd (D) 58.8%",
    "Brook Johnson (R) 38.1%",
    "20.7 pts",
    "1,500,661"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Joe Lieberman (D) 49.8%",
    "Lowell P. Weicher Jr. (R) 49.0%",
    "0.7 pts",
    "1,383,526"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Christopher J. Dodd (D) 64.8%",
    "Roger W. Eddy (R) 34.8%",
    "29.9 pts",
    "976,933"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R) 50.4%",
    "Anthony Toby Moffett (D) 46.1%",
    "4.3 pts",
    "1,083,508"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Christopher J. Dodd (D) 56.3%",
    "James L. Buckley (R) 42.9%",
    "13.4 pts",
    "1,356,075"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R) 57.7%",
    "Gloria Schaffer (D) 41.2%",
    "16.5 pts",
    "1,361,666"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-ct/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}