United States Presidential election7 Nov 2028in 728 days Senate D 97% House D 58% Calendar Track record Research
Closest results
Election 2016 Results

Each election opens in its own mode: the forecast before the votes are counted, the live count while races are still too close to call, and the results once every race is decided.

2016 presidential election in Connecticut

Hillary Clinton (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Connecticut in 2016, 54.6% to 40.9%, a margin of 13.6 points and 224,357 votes.

Connecticut voted 11.5 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Democratic hold continued from 2012, when Barack Obama won.

Democrats led in 6 of the 8 counties and Republicans in 2. The largest, Fairfield, cast 421,209 votes and went to the Democrat by 19.9 points. The closest was Windham, where 3,955 votes separated the two parties.

United States
If only voted How this works
If the polls miss like

Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Hillary Clinton won Democratic 897,572 54.6%
Donald Trump Republican 673,215 40.9%
All other candidates 74,133 4.5%
Total1,644,920

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Fairfield 243,852 57.9% 160,077 38.0% 17,280 421,209 D+19.9
Hartford 240,403 59.1% 148,173 36.4% 18,288 406,864 D+22.7
New Haven 205,609 54.2% 159,048 42.0% 14,349 379,006 D+12.3
New London 62,278 50.4% 54,058 43.8% 7,192 123,528 D+6.7
Litchfield 39,775 40.8% 53,051 54.4% 4,616 97,442 R+13.6
Middlesex 45,357 51.2% 38,867 43.9% 4,400 88,624 D+7.3
Tolland 38,506 49.7% 34,194 44.2% 4,724 77,424 D+5.6
Windham 21,792 42.9% 25,747 50.7% 3,284 50,823 R+7.8

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Connecticut in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+20.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+13.6
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+22.4
2004 John Kerry (D) D+10.4
2000 Al Gore (D) D+17.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.1
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+21.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+9.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+5.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+18.4
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+7.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+27.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.6
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.1
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+8.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+29.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.0
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+30.7
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.3
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.2
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.9
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+2.0
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.8
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+3.1