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1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Connecticut State Senate election results, district by district

Every Connecticut State Senate district in the 1970 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 36 seats

After the electionD 19 · R 17
Races36
Changed party5
Unopposed0%0 races
Incumbents defeated5

Every district

D 19 · R 17

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Joseph J. Fauliso (D)39.1
SD-2Wilber G. Smith (D)45.5
SD-3Harry S. Burke (D)17.2
SD-4David O. Odegard (R)9.1Flipped
SD-5Jay W. Jackson (D)2.5
SD-6Stanley J. Pac (D)17.9
SD-7Charles T. Alfano (D)13.8
SD-8Lewis B. Rome (R)23.2
SD-9Roger W. Eddy (R)13.3
SD-10Anthony Ciarlone (D)34.3
SD-11Joseph I. Lieberman (D)39.3
SD-12Lucy T. Hammer (R)23.8
SD-13John Zajac (R)0.7FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-14William T. Blake (D)3.2
SD-15Louis S. Cutillo (D)18.5Incumbent lost
SD-16William Sullivan (D)23.7
SD-17Joseph B. Buckley (D)6.7
SD-18George J. Crafts (R)0.5FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-19James J. Murphy (D)16.2
SD-20Peter L. Cashman (R)18.1
SD-21George L. Gunther (R)24.1
SD-22James W. Macauley Jr. (R)0.4FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-23J. Edward Caldwell (D)5.1
SD-24Romeo G. Petroni (R)17.5
SD-25Thomas F. Dowd (R)26.6
SD-26Edward S. Rimer Jr. (R)39.0
SD-27William E. Strada (D)0.9
SD-28Jacob P. Rudolf (R)12.7
SD-29Thomas E. Dupont (D)7.1
SD-30P. Edmund Power (R)8.0
SD-31Joseph J. Dinielli (D)8.5
SD-32Alden A. Ives (R)28.6
SD-33Thomas P. Mondani (D)20.8
SD-34Lawrence J. Denardis (R)2.5FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-35Robert D. Houley (D)3.8
SD-36Florence D. Finney (R)29.9

Connecticut State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner