- Lead
- 3,857
- Total
- 6,197
- vs nation
- D+63.7
Connecticut 6th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,534
- Total
- 7,247
- vs nation
- D+58.1
- Lead
- 5,083
- Total
- 7,055
- vs nation
- D+70.0
- Lead
- 5,220
- Total
- 7,020
- vs nation
- D+70.5
- Lead
- 5,814
- Total
- 7,578
- vs nation
- D+69.4
- Lead
- 4,803
- Total
- 6,639
- vs nation
- D+74.8
- Lead
- 4,715
- Total
- 6,462
- vs nation
- D+72.4
- Lead
- 4,420
- Total
- 6,074
- vs nation
- D+64.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+62.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,5052024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,466 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,7622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 15.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 58.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 3, CT · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 6th 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
91.8%
5,978 votes · D+83.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 88.3%
Republican
William McKinley1896
39.5%
167 votes · D+20.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 33.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
6,687votes
88.2% of the vote · D+76.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 6,112 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
1,327votes
18.3% of the vote · D+62.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 1,260 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
+80.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +74.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−26.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+20.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · −41.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 62-point Democratic presidential lean, this Hartford-area district ranks among the state's most reliably one-sided constituencies, leaving general-election outcomes rarely in doubt.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.5 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 62.2 points.
A population of 23,505, a 16% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,762 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 3 and State House District 95.
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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Connecticut 6th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/09006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.