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Connecticut's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Connecticut.Located in the eastern part of the state, the district includes all of New London County, Tolland County, and Windham County, along with parts of Hartford, Middlesex, and New Haven counties.
SDR is available at a designated location in your town, not at your polling place. It’s open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day—be in line by 8 p.m. to register and vote.
In the 2002 elections, Johnson defeated Maloney by a surprisingly large margin in the new 5th district. Since the 2008 elections, all five of Connecticut's representatives are Democrats. Christopher Shays, previously the only Republican in the state's congressional delegation, lost his re-election bid in 2008.
A New England state, Connecticut last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in George H. W. Bush's landslide victory in the 1988 election. It is a strongly blue state, voting for Joe Biden in 2020 by more than 20%.
The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the "General Corte" established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally elected magistrates (the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony (Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor).
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Elections for federal and statewide offices occur in even-numbered years, while municipal elections occur in odd-numbered ones. The office of the Connecticut Secretary of State oversees the election process, including voting and vote counting. [2] In a 2020 study, Connecticut was ranked as the 20th easiest state for citizens to vote in. [3]
Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The town is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region .