1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Connecticut election results

Every race on Connecticut's ballot in the 1972 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races187

Changed party0

Unopposed1%2 races

Incumbents defeated21

Connecticut State Senate

D 13 · R 23

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Joseph J. Fauliso (D)	36.8
SD-2	Wilber G. Smith (D)	41.0
SD-3	Harry S. Burke (D)	9.7
SD-4	David O. Odegard (R)	13.2
SD-5	Nicholas A. Lenge (R)	5.3	Incumbent lost
SD-6	John V. Zisk Jr. (D)	21.4
SD-7	Charles T. Alfano (D)	18.5
SD-8	Lewis B. Rome (R)	22.4
SD-9	Ruth O. Truex (R)	16.8
SD-10	Joseph I. Lieberman (D)	26.2
SD-11	Anthony Ciarlone (D)	9.6
SD-12	Stanley H. Page (R)	24.3
SD-13	John Zajac (R)	9.2
SD-14	Winthrop S. Smith (R)	7.5
SD-15	Louis S. Cutillo (D)	6.5
SD-16	William Sullivan (D)	10.7
SD-17	William Powanda Jr. (R)	8.6	Incumbent lost
SD-18	Samuel B. Hellier (R)	29.1
SD-19	James J. Murphy (D)	4.9
SD-20	Peter L. Cashman (R)	26.8
SD-21	George L. Gunther (R)	39.8
SD-22	Richard S. Scalo (R)	12.9
SD-23	J. Edward Caldwell (D)	21.3
SD-24	Romeo G. Petroni (R)	24.0
SD-25	William J. Lyons Jr. (R)	24.2
SD-26	George C. Guidera (R)	37.0
SD-27	William E. Strada (D)	11.8
SD-28	Joseph T. Gormley (R)	30.5
SD-29	Louise S. Berry (R)	0.4
SD-30	P. Edmund Power (R)	19.5
SD-31	Joseph J. Dinielli (D)	3.9
SD-32	Richard C. Bozzuto (R)	29.9
SD-33	Philip N. Costello Jr. (R)	13.1
SD-34	Lawrence J. Denardis (R)	25.6
SD-35	Thomas G. Carruthers (R)	4.4
SD-36	Florence D. Finney (R)	33.5

Connecticut House of Representatives

D 58 · R 93

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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