7:25am Update: Jarjura wins in Waterbury, Thornton out in Middletown
Town-by town results from the Courant
Jarjura wins in Waterbury!
Holy cow. Jarjura won by over 1,000 votes and 10 percentage points. A historic write-in landslide. Amazing.
James Miron(D) wins in Stratford's first-ever mayoral election.
Dominique Thornton has been defeated by her Republican challenger Sebastian Giuliano by over 1,000 votes in Middletown.
One New London and anti-development forces have lost in New London, according to WTIC-TV.
Enfield Democrats have retained control of the Enfield town council.
Mortensen(I) over Kelly(D) and Pappas(R) in Newington by a landslide.
Moccia(R) over Knopp(D) in Norwalk by about 200 votes.
DeStefano, Malloy both win, although Malloy's race was closer.
Timothy Stewart(R) over Jason Jakubowski(D) in New Britain, by 53% to 46%.
Democrats win big in West Hartford.
Boughton(R) over Esposito(D) in Danbury 57%-43%.
In the other contest where a sitting town leader was campaigning as a write-in, Plainfield First Selectman came in second to Democrat Kevin Cunningham, 42%-31%. Republican David Erstgard got 27%.
Ellen Marmer(D) over Robert Kleinhans(R) 51%-49% in Vernon mayoral race.
Dyer(D) over Thompson(R) in Norfolk by 19 votes. Petitioning candidate Helen Beaudry won 57 votes.
Currey(D) wins in East Hartford.
Quinn(R) defeated by Bingham(D) in Torrington.
Stupinski(R) retakes his seat as First Selectman of Ellington from Dennis Milanovich(D), who defeated Stupinsky in 2003.
No major shift towards eithe party can be reported at this time. Maps will be forthcoming as all the data is gathered and analyzed.
The site recorded over eight times its usual number of hits today. The internet is fast becoming a major source of information for local races.
More results from the Courant and the AP.
Nice ticker from WTNH.
The Day has good election coverage for southeastern Connecticut.
The Journal-Inquirer has good coverage for north-central Connecticut.
The Connecticut Post has an election blog.
Check the comments for more results and commentary.
Please post returns as you find out about them!
22 comments:
Pretty solid lead for Miron. Not bad for a big field.
In West Hartford, Democratic incumbents all won - Mayor Scott Slifka & Art Spada were top vote-getters. The interesting news of the night - Barbara Carpenter, who left the Republicans to become a petitioning candidate, won a minority seat, pushing out a Republican. Mark Sinatro & incumbent Joe Verrengia are the remaining Republicans. Continues the long slide for Republicans, who held a majority several years ago. Dems won 3 of 4 Board of Ed seats.
As David reported, Jarjura is apparently the winner in Waterbury. Blech, blech.
Amazing story in Waterbury. I'm floored. I was also wrong about it on statewide radio today. Oh well.
(national news aside)
CNN projecting Kaine over Kilgore in Virginia.
Republican Neil Dupont beats minor party "Canterbury First" incumbent Santoro by a surpriseingly slim margin (if these numbers are right.)
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/election/index.aspx
Republican Roger Engle Sr. beats Democrat incumbent Bowen in sleepy Brooklyn. The first Republican First Selectman there ever! Or at least in my memory. Wow. I really admire Roger. Hes a great guy.
Thats great about Waterbury huh guys? I hope that repeats in Plainfield. I don't know those numbers yet....
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Liberal tax and spender Mikey Paulus now has a mandate to spend and tax even more. What is it they say? "People get the government they deserve --good and hard!" More taxes on the way. If you live there, I hope you rent!
In Meriden, the Democrats swept the six seats up (2 at large and 4 district) making it a 12-0 City Council. The Mayor, Mark Benigni, won 83%-17% over perennial gadfly Arline Dunlop.
The more interesting and unexpected results are inevitably from those involving unseated incumbents or open seats. Here are those mayor/first selectman results as of 11:30:
Turnovers thus far:
Bethlehem: Bulvanoski (D) over Traver (R)
Branford: Cheryl Morris (D) over Opie (R)
Brooklyn: Roger Engle (R) unseated incumbent Maurice Bowen (D)
Canterbury: Dupont (R) over incumbent Santoro
Chester: Thomas Marsh (R) over Heft (D)
Derby: Anthony Staffieri (R) over Garofolo (D)
Durham: James McLaughin (D) unseated R incumbent.
Ellington: Michael Stupinski (R) over Milanovich (D)
Griswold: Hatfield (R) over Brycki (D)
Middletown: Guiliano (R) won over incumbent Dem Thornton
Orange: James Zeoli (R) over Goldblatt (D)
Pomfret: James Rivers (D) over Patenuade (R)
Thompson: David Babbit (R) over Williams (D)
Torrington: Ryan Bingham (R) over Owen Quinn (D)
West Haven: John Picard (D) over incumbent Borer (D)
Westbrook: Raffa (R) over Palermo (D)
Woodstock: Margaret Wholean (D) over Very (R) and Klusek (PEC)
Subtotal: R's win 11, D's win 6
Results for open seats thus far:
Clinton: William Fritz (D) over Isaacson (R)
Columbia: Donald Cianci (D) over Vance (R)
Cromwell: Paul Beaulieu (R) over Varricchio (D)
East Lyme: Beth Hogan (D) over Fraser (R)
Hamden: Craig Henrici (D) over Reilly (R)
Hampton: Maurice Bisson (R)
Kent: Ruth Epstein (D)
Killingworth: Martin Klein (D) over Amport (R)
Lebanon: Joyce Okonuk (D) over Wallace (R)
Middlefield: Jon Brayshaw (R) over Johnson (D)
Norwich: Benjamin Lathrop (D) over Oldfield (PEC)
Plainfield: Kevin Cunningham (D) over Ertsgard (R)
Rocky Hill: Anthony LaRosa (D) over Colandrea (R)
Salisbury: Curtis Rand (D) over Bartram (R)
Sharon: Malcolm Brown (D) over Snyder (R)
Stafford: Bacciochi (R) over Fontanella (D)
Sterling: Russell Gray (R) over Firlik (D) and Folco (Ind)
Stonington: William Brown (R) over Maranell (D)
Stratford: James Miron (D) over multiple
Suffield: Lingenfelter (R) over Moncrief
Thomaston: Maura Martin (D) over Piscopo (R)
Voluntown: Gilbert Grimm (R) over Sandford (D)
Waterbury: Jarjura (write in)
Wilton: William Brennan (R) over Lilly (D)
Windsor Locks: Steven Wawruck (D) over Hamilton (R)
Subtotal: R's win 9, D's win 15 (not including Jarjura)
Other news/notes:
* New Britain: incumbent Stewart (R) over Dem Jason Jakubowski, 53% to 46%. Sigh. With a 4 to 1 Dem voter majority, I expected something different.
* Chaplin: Dem Rusty Lanzit won re-election. Dems had not won in about 100 years until a couple years ago (really), and Dems fought hard.
* Stamford - 25% of precincts: Malloy 56%, Munger (R) 41%
* Cheryl Morris' Democratic win in Branford may signal growing Democratic strength. Last year, Republican Senate leader Bill Aniskovich lost to Dem Ed Meyer
* New London: two candidates for One New London party win Council seats
National aside:
In New Jersey, Democrat John Corzine is the next Governor New Jersey.
Mike,
Excellent work, as always. There are a lot of numbers to crunch. Doesn't look like a massive shift towards either party at this stage: very like the May elections.
The national news is potentially more important for our statewide elections next year.
Still nothing out of Newington and Norwalk.
Dem Melody Currey takes open East Hartford seat. (Also should not have included Waterbury as open seat above, but hey, it's late...)
Democrat John Kelly wins BIG in Newington (72%) over Pappa (R, 16%) and Mortensen (ind, 13%). I don't think Dems expected that.
William Stortz (R) ousts incumbent Mayor Couture (D) in Bristol.
Gordon Joseloff (D) wins open seat in Westport.
Carl Balestracci (D) takes away Guilford from incumbent Bishop (R).
Mortensen(I) over Kelly(D) and Pappas(R) in Newington by a huge margin. Council is 5-4 Democrats.
Richard Moccia(R) over incumbent Alex Knopp(D) by 2% in Norwalk.
Sorry about the Newington mix-up - AP had posted wildly incorrect number at the time. It is former Mayor Mortensen by 55%, Kelly at 37%.
Dear Dean Fan:
Do you ever say anything else but rail on the DLC?
By the way, a great night for Tim Kaine in Virginia - a moderate Democrat.
DeanFan - can you please take your uninformed trolling elsewhere? In case you were unaware, Stamford has the largest Republican turnout of any city in the state. I'm not taking anything away from your idol in New Haven, but as anyone with half a brain realizes, it's a one party system there.
That nonsense about universal health care and equal rights for all? Malloy has repeatedly said we need to work for a universal system that provides a base level of healthcare for all. Further, he was a huge supporter of the civil unions bill and performed many ceremonies the first day the law came into effect.
If you did some research, you might still not like Malloy, but you would at least be speaking from an informed postition, and not blathering about what you think a DLC member is.
You think Dan Malloy is what's wrong with Democrats? I'd say devisive little snots like you who pidgeonhole every Democratic leader and bicker amongst themselves are the real problem.
I think yesterday's election solidified Dan Malloy as the Al Gore of Connecticut politics. If Mayor Malloy is the nominee who is his base? Fairfield county? 51% of Stamford?
How can Conn. dems see him as a strong candidate?
How can Conn. dems see him as a strong candidate?
Your interpretation is lacking in critical detail. Think of it this way: Malloy recieved over 3,000 more votes than DeStefano did in a city with a smaller population.
Now of course they were not running against each other, but my point is only that Malloy did turn out a lot of D's, more than DeStefano did in NH. So, to say that the 51 percent doesn't represent a strong base is entirely misleading, since it doesn't take into account the size of the other party in Stamford (as a poster above already noted). Further, Stamford had huge victories on its board of finance and board of ed, with Malloy atop the ticket.
You may be right about base strength, but these sort of things should be taken into consideration.
From Farmington, Clark (R) 3017 53% Meade (D) 2719 47%
dems in 06: Interesting analysis of the race in Stamford. I live in Stamford. I'm glad that Dan got re-elected. I'm glad that the Dems won back control one seat of the board of finance. The board of finance race was very nasty.
However, according to the Stamford Advocate, for the Board of Ed was split 50-50 between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Having worked in Stamford politics, I would suggest that the real credit for turning out Democrats in Stamford goes not to Dan Malloy but to two important factors. One is that there were several strongly contested races on the ballot. That helps get out the voters.
The other is that Ellen Camhi, the Democratic Town Chair in Stamford is a master at turning out the vote. The Democratic GOTV operations in Stamford are probably the best in the State and there would have been a good turnout no matter who was running.
This is contrasted by what went on in New Haven. The DeStefano campaign as well as Susan Voigt, Democratic Town Chair of New Haven, knowing that there wasn't strong opposition in New Haven sent DeStefano supporters around the state to help in other municipal races. The DeStefano campaign spent their time trying to help build the party around the state.
So yes, Dan did get 3199 more votes than John. Dan got re-elected Mayor and he deserves it. However, John is still leading the charge in building a stronger Democratic Party statewide in preparation to take on Rell next year.
If Dan Malloy wants to be a proud member of the DLC, I'm going to continue to make him wear that allegiance on his sleeve, as it is utterly noxious to those of us who have been paying attention.
Ang again you show your ignorance. If you had actually been paying attention you would know where he actually stands on the issues you previously mentioned. But you don't. You just paint with as broad a brush as possible. A perfect example of this is how, after I refuted your statements with FACTS, you simpy rant more about the DLC instead of actually responding to anything I said.
Genghis-
Question- I'm curious to know if all of the Anonymous that argue so strongly for Malloy are from the same IP - maybe the Malloy staff. I know Aldon always identifies himself. I do like the ability to think up cool pseudonyms, but isn't it kinda sleazy for the campaigns to blog anonymously?
What is the matter with you people, the web is an anonymous medium - deal with it. You can post a photo, and scan your social security card and driver's license know one besides your mother will be sure it's you. All of these things can be manipulated quite easily in the marvelous modern world we live in, so quit yapping about pseudonyms. Everyone's identity is in question.
I'm starting to think the whole idea of blogging is pretty sleazy. It reminds me of junior high.
DeanFan - Get a new tune, or in the words of Bob Dylan, at least "know your song well before you start singing."
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