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1996 general · November 5, 1996

1996 Connecticut State Senate election results, district by district

Every Connecticut State Senate district in the 1996 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 party2
Unopposed11%4 races
Incumbents defeated2

Every district

D 19 · R 17

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1John Fonfara (D)61.2
SD-2Eric D. Coleman (D)Unopposed
SD-3Gary D. Lebeau (D)7.2FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-4Mary Ann Handley (D)0.2FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-5Kevin B. Sullivan (D)26.5
SD-6Thomas A. Bozek (D)85.1
SD-7John Kissel (R)17.2
SD-8James T. Fleming (R)37.8
SD-9Biagio Ciotto (D)10.8
SD-10Toni N. Harp (D)62.6
SD-11Martin Looney (D)Unopposed
SD-12William A. Aniskovich (R)Unopposed
SD-13Thomas P. Gaffey (D)44.0
SD-14Win Smith Jr. (R)4.9
SD-15Thomas F. Upson (R)23.1
SD-16Stephen Somma (R)4.4
SD-17Joe Crisco (D)8.0
SD-18Cathy Welles Cook (R)15.0
SD-19Edith G. Prague (D)23.0
SD-20Melodie Peters (D)11.7
SD-21George L. Gunther (R)24.2
SD-22Angelina Lee Scarpetti (R)11.9
SD-23Alvin W. Penn (D)54.2
SD-24Mark Nielsen (R)0.6
SD-25Robert L. Genuario (R)17.8
SD-26Judith Freedman (R)42.9
SD-27George Jepsen (D)27.9
SD-28Fred H. Lovegrove Jr. (R)5.2
SD-29Donald E. Williams Jr. (D)10.7
SD-30M. Adela Eads (R)19.8
SD-31Tom Colapietro (D)28.4
SD-32Louis C. Deluca (R)33.5
SD-33Eileen M. Daily (D)25.6
SD-34Brian McDermott (D)16.1
SD-35Tony Guglielmo (R)31.7
SD-36William H. Nickerson (R)Unopposed

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