- Lead
- 3,463
- Total
- 5,362
- vs nation
- D+66.1
Connecticut 1st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,029
- Total
- 6,351
- vs nation
- D+74.7
- Lead
- 5,447
- Total
- 6,626
- vs nation
- D+80.1
- Lead
- 5,572
- Total
- 6,584
- vs nation
- D+80.8
- Lead
- 6,170
- Total
- 7,164
- vs nation
- D+78.9
- Lead
- 5,168
- Total
- 6,253
- vs nation
- D+85.1
- Lead
- 5,032
- Total
- 6,095
- vs nation
- D+82.0
- Lead
- 4,597
- Total
- 5,830
- vs nation
- D+71.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 22,5622024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,810 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $44,7922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 15.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 49.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+90.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 7, CT · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 1st State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
95.1%
5,929 votes · D+90.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 92.7%
Republican
William McKinley1896
23.1%
78 votes · D+49.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 20.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
6,640votes
92.7% of the vote · D+86.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 6,057 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
913votes
17.0% of the vote · D+64.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 690 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
George McGovern1972
+96.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.5 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +91.4 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−49.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+68.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −55.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Covering Torrington-area communities in Litchfield County, this district backed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee by nearly 20 points, reflecting the durable left lean of its mid-sized post-industrial towns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 14.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.6 points.
A population of 22,562, a 16% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,792 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 7 and State House District 92.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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