The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001

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Governor:1(Term Limit: None; 4-year term)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2000 Representatives:6(1.38% of 435)
2002 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
1990 Census: 3,287,116(1.32% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census: 3,409,535(1.21% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (Nov 98): 1,806,750
Estimated Voting age population (Jan 98): 2,464,000 
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Polls Close: 8 PM EST (0100 UTC)
Candidates seeking office
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Governor  Term limit: None; 4-year term, Current Governors  
 Republican  Governor John G. Rowland
First elected 1994; re-elected: 1998
Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Senate  6-year term, Current Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1Democrat  Senator Joe Lieberman
First elected: 1988; re-elected: 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Class 3Democrat  Senator Christopher J. Dodd
First elected: 1980; re-elected: 1986, 1992, 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
House of Representatives  2 year term, Current House  
Partisan Composition: 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans
CD 1Democrat  Congressman John B. Larson
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 2Republican  Congressman Rob Simmons
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 3Democrat  Congressman Rosa L. DeLauro
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 4Republican  Congressman Christopher Shays
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 5Democrat  Congressman Jim Maloney
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 6Republican  Congressman Nancy L. Johnson
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Nomination Notes
Connecticut has a "challenge primary" system where candidates are nominated by a Convention. If a challenger to the leading contender receives at least 20 percent of the vote on the floor of the Convention then a Primary is required.
Congressional District

Connecticut has 8 Counties and 6 Congressional Districts: 3 counties are wholly within a congressional district; 5 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

In the State of Connecticut, unlike its 5 sister New England states, a Municipality (whether a City or a Borough) which is coterminous with a Town does not mean the eradication of that Municipality's status as a Town. Every part of Connecticut, therefore, is legally under some form of Town government, even where a Municipality has long been incorporated; accordingly, any such coterminous Cities (along with the one Borough where this term also applies- that being Naugatuck in New Haven County) are referred to only as Towns in the listing below:

CD # 1 includes:

  • in Hartford County: the Towns of Berlin, Bloomfield, East Hartford, East Windsor, Glastonbury, Hartford, Manchester, Marlborough, Newington, Rocky Hill, South Windsor, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor;
  • in Middlesex County: the Towns of Cromwell, East Hampton and Portland;
  • in Tolland County: the Towns of Andover and Hebron.

most of the Town of Bolton (Tolland County) is in CD 1 but a small portion lies in CD 2.

CD # 2 includes:

  • in Middlesex County: the Towns of Chester, Deep River, East Haddam, Essex, Haddam, Middletown, Old Saybrook and Westbrook;
  • the entirety of New London County;
  • in Tolland County: the Towns of Columbia, Coventry, Ellington, Mansfield, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon and Willington;
  • the entirety of Windham County.

CD # 3 includes:

  • in Fairfield County: the Town of Stratford;
  • in Middlesex County: the Towns of Clinton, Durham, Killingworth and Middlefield;
  • in New Haven County: the Towns of Branford, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Wallingford and West Haven.

most of the Town of Woodbridge (New Haven County) is in CD 3 but a small portion lies in CD 5.

CD # 4 is wholly within Fairfield County and includes the Towns of

  • Bridgeport, Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford, Trumbull and Westport.

the Town of Monroe (Fairfield County) is split between CDs 4 and 5.

CD # 5 includes:

  • in Fairfield County: the Towns of Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, Easton, New Fairfield, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Weston, Wilton;
  • in New Haven County: the Towns of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Cheshire, Derby, Meriden, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Waterbury and Wolcott.

the Town of Southbury (New Haven County) is split between CDs 5 and 6.

CD # 6 includes:

  • in Fairfield County: the Town of Sherman;
  • in Hartford County: the Towns of Avon, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Granby, Enfield, Farmington, Granby, Hartland, New Britain, Plainville, Simsbury, Southington, Suffield and Windsor Locks;
  • the entirety of Litchfield County.