PARTY-DOMINANT DISTRICTS IN CONNECTICUT

Topic:
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS; LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS; POLITICAL PARTIES (GENERAL); STATISTICAL INFORMATION; VOTING;
Location:
VOTERS, REGISTRATION OF;

OLR Research Report


August 12, 2005		2005-R-0636
PARTY-DOMINANT DISTRICTS IN CONNECTICUT

By: Kristin Sullivan, Research Analyst

Using August 2005 data from the Office of the Secretary of the State, we found that over 58% of all Senate districts and 62% of all House districts are dominated by one of the two major political parties (i.e., either Democrats or Republicans). For the purpose of this report, a party-dominant district is one where a major party has at least 10% more registered voters than the other. Table 1 shows the total number of Senate and House districts where the percentage of party-affiliated active voters (i.e., those properly enrolled) is 10, 15, or 20% greater among Democrats or Republicans. Tables 2 and 3 provide a breakdown of those voters, as well as all other registered voters, by Senate and House district, respectively.

TABLE 1: PARTY-DOMINANT SENATE AND ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS


	*Total Districts*	*Difference is less than 10%*	*10% Majority*		*15% Majority*		*20% Majority*
			Democrat	Republican	Democrat	Republican	Democrat	Republican
Senate	36	15	7	1	3	1	9	0
Assembly	151	57	22	6	15	3	45	3

TABLE 2: ACTIVE VOTERS BY SENATE DISTRICT


*Senate District*	*Total*	*Democrat*	*Republican*	Other*	% *Democrat*	*% Republican*	*% Other*	*10% Majority*	*15% Majority*	*20% Majority*
1	37,467	21,508	3,739	12,220	57.4%	10.0%	32.6%		-	D**
2	46,123	25,583	4,495	16,045	55.5%	9.7%	34.8%	-	-	D
3	54,195	20,646	9,351	24,198	38.1%	17.3%	44.6%	-	-	D
4	60,454	18,996	14,580	26,878	31.4%	24.1%	44.5%	-	-	-
5	61,794	22,824	13,984	24,986	36.9%	22.6%	40.4%	D	-	-
6	44,596	21,458	7,368	15,770	48.1%	16.5%	35.4%	-	-	D
7	57,144	17,428	12,874	26,842	30.5%	22.5%	47.0%	-	-	-
8	61,253	16,253	19,057	25,943	26.5%	31.1%	42.4%	-	-	-
9	58,956	23,007	11,385	24,564	39.0%	19.3%	41.7%	-	D	-
10	41,716	26,153	2,186	13,377	62.7%	5.2%	32.1%	-	-	D
11	46,323	24,089	4,837	17,397	52.0%	10.4%	37.6%	-	-	D
12	65,056	16,180	15,395	33,481	24.9%	23.7%	51.5%	-	-	-
13	56,016	17,499	9,629	28,888	31.2%	17.2%	51.6%	D	-	-
14	57,712	19,110	11,902	26,700	33.1%	20.6%	46.3%	D	-	-
15	47,794	20,302	8,121	19,371	42.5%	17.0%	40.5%	-	-	D
16	58,087	18,383	11,955	27,749	31.6%	20.6%	47.8%	D	-	-
17	51,354	17,791	9,033	24,530	34.6%	17.6%	47.8%	-	-	D
18	56,027	16,300	11,500	28,227	29.1%	20.5%	50.4%	-	-	-
19	53,802	16,764	10,982	26,056	31.2%	20.4%	48.4%	D	-	-
20	52,939	15,620	11,699	25,620	29.5%	22.1%	48.4%	-	-	-
21	59,173	12,680	14,264	32,229	21.4%	24.1%	54.5%	-	-	-
22	53,462	18,736	10,902	23,824	35.0%	20.4%	44.6%	D	-	-
23	37,320	22,835	2,259	12,226	61.2%	6.1%	32.8%	-	-	D
24	45,540	11,877	11,077	22,586	26.1%	24.3%	49.6%	-	-	-
25	54,318	15,020	14,488	24,810	27.7%	26.7%	45.7%	-	-	-
26	64,265	16,196	23,083	24,986	25.2%	35.9%	38.9%	R***	-	-
27	44,211	16,836	11,251	16,124	38.1%	25.4%	36.5%	D	-	-
28	59,869	14,689	19,265	25,915	24.5%	32.2%	43.3%	-	-	-
29	50,678	17,243	8,523	24,912	34.0%	16.8%	49.2%	-	D	-
30	62,697	14,825	19,173	28,699	23.6%	30.6%	45.8%	-	-	-
31	50,994	18,177	9,497	23,320	35.6%	18.6%	45.7%	-	D	-
32	63,507	12,944	18,830	31,733	20.4%	29.7%	50.0%	-	-	-
33	62,137	17,015	14,994	30,128	27.4%	24.1%	48.5%	-	-	-
34	57,494	15,445	11,262	30,787	26.9%	19.6%	53.5%	-	-	-
35	60,125	16,720	13,038	30,367	27.8%	21.7%	50.5%	-	-	-
36	55,550	13,290	22,424	19,836	23.9%	40.4%	35.7%	-	R	-
*All other registered voters including those who are unaffiliated, independent, or affiliated with a minor party.								D = 7	D = 3	D = 9
								R = 1	R = 1	R = 0
**Democrat								non-party-dominant districts = 15
***Republican


TABLE 3: ACTIVE VOTERS BY HOUSE DISTRICT
*Assembly District*	*Total*	*Democrat*	*Republican*	Other*	*% Democrat*	*% Republican*	*% Other*	*10% Majority*	*15% Majority*	*20 % Majority*
1	10,117	6,362	650	3,105	62.9%	6.4%	30.7%	-	-	D**
2	13,163	3,441	3,263	6,459	26.1%	24.8%	49.1%	-	-	-
3	7,464	5,146	326	1,992	68.9%	4.4%	26.7%	-	-	D
4	6,523	4,070	317	2,136	62.4%	4.9%	32.7%	-	-	D
5	8,174	5,748	291	2,135	70.3%	3.6%	26.1%	-	-	D
6	9,405	6,000	660	2,745	63.8%	7.0%	29.2%	-	-	D
7	8,459	5,784	313	2,362	68.4%	3.7%	27.9%	-	-	D
8	15,221	4,239	3,185	7,797	27.8%	20.9%	51.2%	-	-	-
9	16,154	5,706	3,615	6,833	35.3%	22.4%	42.3%	D	-	-
10	11,493	5,266	1,330	4,897	45.8%	11.6%	42.6%	-	-	D
11	10,394	4,848	1,182	4,364	46.6%	11.4%	42.0%	-	-	D
12	13,560	4,684	2,715	6,161	34.5%	20.0%	45.4%	D	-	-
13	11,472	4,000	2,115	5,357	34.9%	18.4%	46.7%	-	D	-
14	14,895	5,045	3,425	6,425	33.9%	23.0%	43.1%	D	-	-
15	15,819	7,448	2,382	5,989	47.1%	15.1%	37.9%	-	-	D
16	16,408	4,085	5,958	6,365	24.9%	36.3%	38.8%	R***	-	-
17	15,802	4,017	5,195	6,590	25.4%	32.9%	41.7%	-	-	-
18	13,682	6,239	2,380	5,063	45.6%	17.4%	37.0%	-	-	D
19	15,576	5,614	4,177	5,785	36.0%	26.8%	37.1%	-	-	-
20	12,720	4,930	2,463	5,327	38.8%	19.4%	41.9%	-	D	-
21	14,589	4,173	3,937	6,479	28.6%	27.0%	44.4%	-	-	-
22	12,525	4,901	2,411	5,213	39.1%	19.2%	41.6%	-	D	-
23	16,590	3,783	5,631	7,176	22.8%	33.9%	43.3%	R	-	-
24	11,321	5,827	1,611	3,883	51.5%	14.2%	34.3%	-	-	D
25	8,864	4,696	885	3,283	53.0%	10.0%	37.0%	-	-	D
26	9,965	5,213	1,464	3,288	52.3%	14.7%	33.0%	-	-	D
27	14,767	6,146	2,806	5,815	41.6%	19.0%	39.4%	-	-	D
28	15,483	5,896	3,379	6,208	38.1%	21.8%	40.1%	-	D	-
29	14,786	5,506	3,062	6,218	37.2%	20.7%	42.1%	-	D	-
30	15,014	5,245	3,505	6,264	34.9%	23.3%	41.7%	D	-	-
31	15,868	4,479	4,767	6,622	28.2%	30.0%	41.7%	-	-	-
32	15,844	5,120	3,273	7,451	32.3%	20.7%	47.0%	D	-	-
33	11,667	5,250	1,712	4,705	45.0%	14.7%	40.3%	-	-	D
34	12,839	4,360	2,455	6,024	34.0%	19.1%	46.9%	D	-	-
35	15,822	3,655	4,164	8,003	23.1%	26.3%	50.6%	-	-	-
36	15,508	4,361	3,829	7,318	28.1%	24.7%	47.2%	-	-	-
37	13,805	3,798	3,287	6,720	27.5%	23.8%	48.7%	-	-	-
38	14,692	4,097	2,866	7,729	27.9%	19.5%	52.6%	-	-	-
39	7,439	3,135	829	3,475	42.1%	11.1%	46.7%	-	-	D
40	9,526	3,016	1,586	4,924	31.7%	16.6%	51.7%	-	D	-
41	11,369	2,846	2,711	5,812	25.0%	23.8%	51.1%	-	-	-

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*Assembly District*	*Total*	*Democrat*	*Republican*	Other*	*% Democrat*	*% Republican*	*% Other*	*10% Majority*	*15% Majority*	*20 % Majority*
42	13,696	3,174	3,516	7,006	23.2%	25.7%	51.2%	-	-	-
43	15,572	4,208	3,495	7,869	27.0%	22.4%	50.5%	-	-	-
44	13,213	3,899	2,244	7,070	29.5%	17.0%	53.5%	D	-	-
45	13,516	4,830	2,383	6,303	35.7%	17.6%	46.6%	-	D	-
46	11,495	4,347	1,616	5,532	37.8%	14.1%	48.1%	-	-	D
47	13,745	4,529	2,653	6,563	33.0%	19.3%	47.7%	D	-	-
48	14,659	4,149	3,168	7,342	28.3%	21.6%	50.1%	-	-	-
49	13,237	5,352	1,792	6,093	40.4%	13.5%	46.0%	-	-	D
50	14,009	3,637	3,903	6,469	26.0%	27.9%	46.2%	-	-	-
51	13,055	4,427	2,363	6,265	33.9%	18.1%	48.0%	-	D	-
52	14,130	4,453	2,968	6,709	31.5%	21.0%	47.5%	D	-	-
53	15,643	3,993	3,365	8,285	25.5%	21.5%	53.0%	-	-	-
54	11,116	4,039	1,722	5,355	36.3%	15.5%	48.2%	-	-	D
55	15,676	4,265	4,062	7,349	27.2%	25.9%	46.9%	-	-	-
56	11,808	3,306	2,013	6,489	28.0%	17.0%	55.0%	D	-	-
57	15,048	3,893	3,157	7,998	25.9%	21.0%	53.1%	-	-	-
58	13,413	4,867	2,288	6,258	36.3%	17.1%	46.7%	-	D	-
59	12,586	4,333	2,499	5,754	34.4%	19.9%	45.7%	D	-	-
60	13,727	4,950	2,339	6,438	36.1%	17.0%	46.9%	-	D	-
61	13,560	3,786	3,548	6,226	27.9%	26.2%	45.9%	-	-	-
62	15,347	3,634	4,698	7,015	23.7%	30.6%	45.7%	-	-	-
63	14,879	3,760	3,773	7,346	25.3%	25.4%	49.4%	-	-	-
64	14,879	4,235	4,375	6,269	28.5%	29.4%	42.1%	-	-	-
65	11,278	3,778	2,606	4,894	33.5%	23.1%	43.4%	D	-	-
66	16,167	3,459	5,769	6,939	21.4%	35.7%	42.9%	R	-	-
67	13,986	3,038	4,004	6,944	21.7%	28.6%	49.6%	-	-	-
68	14,362	3,341	3,606	7,415	23.3%	25.1%	51.6%	-	-	-
69	16,416	3,386	5,525	7,505	20.6%	33.7%	45.7%	R	-	-
70	12,262	3,935	2,312	6,015	32.1%	18.9%	49.1%	D	-	-
71	13,788	4,606	3,867	5,315	33.4%	28.0%	38.5%	-	-	-
72	9,689	4,792	1,072	3,825	49.5%	11.1%	39.5%	-	-	D
73	11,570	4,991	1,899	4,680	43.1%	16.4%	40.4%	-	-	D
74	11,234	4,791	1,666	4,777	42.6%	14.8%	42.5%	-	-	D
75	10,073	5,825	999	3,249	57.8%	9.9%	32.3%	-	-	D
76	15,655	3,818	4,070	7,767	24.4%	26.0%	49.6%	-	-	-
77	13,205	5,297	2,261	5,647	40.1%	17.1%	42.8%	-	-	D
78	14,017	4,250	2,669	7,098	30.3%	19.0%	50.6%	D	-	-
79	11,626	4,456	1,913	5,257	38.3%	16.5%	45.2%	-	-	D
80	15,134	3,842	3,619	7,673	25.4%	23.9%	50.7%	-	-	-
81	14,481	4,266	3,016	7,199	29.5%	20.8%	49.7%	-	-	-
82	12,563	3,809	1,923	6,831	30.3%	15.3%	54.4%	-	D	-

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*Assembly District*	*Total*	*Democrat*	*Republican*	Other*	*% Democrat*	*% Republican*	*% Other*	*10% Majority*	*15% Majority*	*20 % Majority*
83	13,710	4,407	2,458	6,845	32.1%	17.9%	49.9%	D	-	-
84	9,162	2,883	1,036	5,243	31.5%	11.3%	57.2%	-	-	D
85	13,246	3,707	2,135	7,404	28.0%	16.1%	55.9%	D	-	-
86	13,048	3,239	2,474	7,335	24.8%	19.0%	56.2%	-	-	-
87	15,726	3,057	4,156	8,513	19.4%	26.4%	54.1%	-	-	-
88	12,879	4,599	1,880	6,400	35.7%	14.6%	49.7%	-	-	D
89	15,126	3,264	4,111	7,751	21.6%	27.2%	51.2%	-	-	-
90	12,579	2,923	2,730	6,926	23.2%	21.7%	55.1%	-	-	-
91	11,844	4,902	1,423	5,519	41.4%	12.0%	46.6%	-	-	D
92	10,331	6,600	459	3,272	63.9%	4.4%	31.7%	-	-	D
93	9,128	5,729	322	3,077	62.8%	3.5%	33.7%	-	-	D
94	8,653	5,737	393	2,523	66.3%	4.5%	29.2%	-	-	D
95	9,448	7,104	226	2,118	75.2%	2.4%	22.4%	-	-	D
96	11,542	6,266	1,105	4,171	54.3%	9.6%	36.1%	-	-	D
97	9,987	6,047	777	3,163	60.5%	7.8%	31.7%	-	-	D
98	16,317	4,706	3,809	7,802	28.8%	23.3%	47.8%	-	-	-
99	12,389	4,351	1,987	6,051	35.1%	16.0%	48.8%	-	D	-
100	14,529	4,929	3,022	6,578	33.9%	20.8%	45.3%	D	-	-
101	16,491	3,692	5,261	7,538	22.4%	31.9%	45.7%	-	-	-
102	14,324	4,117	2,137	8,070	28.7%	14.9%	56.3%	D	-	-
103	14,330	3,528	3,370	7,432	24.6%	23.5%	51.9%	-	-	-
104	11,450	4,380	1,636	5,434	38.3%	14.3%	47.5%	-	-	D
105	13,256	3,100	2,766	7,390	23.4%	20.9%	55.7%	-	-	-
106	13,585	3,174	4,327	6,084	23.4%	31.9%	44.8%	-	-	-
107	13,859	2,784	4,790	6,285	20.1%	34.6%	45.3%	R	-	-
108	14,727	3,040	4,622	7,065	20.6%	31.4%	48.0%	R	-	-
109	9,950	2,824	2,082	5,044	28.4%	20.9%	50.7%	-	-	-
110	5,958	2,029	876	3,053	34.1%	14.7%	51.2%	-	D	-
111	15,848	3,730	6,262	5,856	23.5%	39.5%	37.0%	-	R	-
112	14,343	2,586	3,899	7,858	18.0%	27.2%	54.8%	-	-	-
113	13,499	2,699	3,335	7,465	20.0%	24.7%	55.3%	-	-	-
114	14,963	4,400	3,338	7,225	29.4%	22.3%	48.3%	-	-	-
115	12,599	7,075	1,478	4,046	56.2%	11.7%	32.1%	-	-	D
116	10,710	5,779	998	3,933	54.0%	9.3%	36.7%	-	-	D
117	15,527	5,168	3,297	7,062	33.3%	21.2%	45.5%	D	-	-
118	12,450	3,188	2,623	6,639	25.6%	21.1%	53.3%	-	-	-
119	13,829	3,561	3,340	6,928	25.8%	24.2%	50.1%	-	-	-
120	14,004	3,384	3,173	7,447	24.2%	22.7%	53.2%	-	-	-
121	11,702	3,859	1,678	6,165	33.0%	14.3%	52.7%	-	D	-
122	15,206	2,859	4,022	8,325	18.8%	26.5%	54.7%	-	-	-
123	16,566	3,724	4,509	8,333	22.5%	27.2%	50.3%	-	-	-

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*Assembly District*	*Total*	*Democrat*	*Republican*	Other*	*% Democrat*	*% Republican*	*% Other*	*10% Majority*	*15% Majority*	*20 % Majority*
124	10,270	6,363	702	3,205	62.0%	6.8%	31.2%	-	-	D
125	13,673	2,592	6,705	4,376	19.0%	49.0%	32.0%	-	-	R
126	11,386	7,055	884	3,447	62.0%	7.8%	30.3%	-	-	D
127	10,213	5,178	1,370	3,665	50.7%	13.4%	35.9%	-	-	D
128	7,720	4,879	374	2,467	63.2%	4.8%	32.0%	-	-	D
129	9,005	4,550	1,288	3,167	50.5%	14.3%	35.2%	-	-	D
130	8,402	5,341	484	2,577	63.6%	5.8%	30.7%	-	-	D
131	14,650	3,123	3,919	7,608	21.3%	26.8%	51.9%	-	-	-
132	13,961	3,608	4,151	6,202	25.8%	29.7%	44.4%	-	-	-
133	14,059	3,501	4,842	5,716	24.9%	34.4%	40.7%	-	-	-
134	15,129	3,763	4,096	7,270	24.9%	27.1%	48.1%	-	-	-
135	15,393	3,782	5,293	6,318	24.6%	34.4%	41.0%	-	-	-
136	15,350	4,821	4,765	5,764	31.4%	31.0%	37.6%	-	-	-
137	12,555	3,897	2,596	6,062	31.0%	20.7%	48.3%	D	-	-
138	11,638	3,081	2,909	5,648	26.5%	25.0%	48.5%	-	-	-
139	12,926	3,646	2,744	6,536	28.2%	21.2%	50.6%	-	-	-
140	9,518	3,425	1,323	4,770	36.0%	13.9%	50.1%	-	-	D
141	14,968	2,691	7,396	4,881	18.0%	49.4%	32.6%	-	-	R
142	15,024	4,003	3,763	7,258	26.6%	25.0%	48.3%	-	-	-
143	14,513	3,467	4,790	6,256	23.9%	33.0%	43.1%	-	-	-
144	11,966	4,711	3,154	4,101	39.4%	26.4%	34.3%	D	-	-
145	7,134	3,428	986	2,720	48.1%	13.8%	38.1%	-	-	D
146	10,531	3,980	2,539	4,012	37.8%	24.1%	38.1%	D	-	-
147	14,586	4,694	4,948	4,944	32.2%	33.9%	33.9%	-	-	-
148	9,322	3,746	1,972	3,604	40.2%	21.2%	38.7%	-	D	-
149	13,225	2,907	5,273	5,045	22.0%	39.9%	38.1%	-	R	-
150	11,536	2,604	4,691	4,241	22.6%	40.7%	36.8%	-	R	-
151	12,378	2,534	5,273	4,571	20.5%	42.6%	36.9%	-	-	R
*All other registered voters including those who are unaffiliated, independent, or affiliated with a minor party.								D = 22	D = 15	D = 45
								R = 6	R = 3	R = 3
**Democrat								non-party-dominant districts = 57
***Republican

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