- Lead
- 965
- Total
- 12,170
- vs nation
- D+9.4
Connecticut 29th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,995
- Total
- 12,798
- vs nation
- D+11.1
- Lead
- 1,509
- Total
- 11,049
- vs nation
- D+11.6
- Lead
- 1,768
- Total
- 10,625
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 2,503
- Total
- 11,121
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 1,035
- Total
- 10,670
- vs nation
- D+12.2
- Lead
- 1,662
- Total
- 9,955
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 1,704
- Total
- 9,643
- vs nation
- D+9.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,9262024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,459 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,8252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.3 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 27, CT · twin score 89.7
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 29th 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
68.8%
6,023 votes · D+37.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 60.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
71.5%
748 votes · R+48.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,302votes
57.1% of the vote · D+15.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 6,740 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
6,353votes
59.8% of the vote · R+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 5,920 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
Al Gore2000
+16.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.7 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +15.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+42.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +28.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 63.4%7,016 | 36.6%4,046 | 11,062 |
| 2018 | D | 63.6%5,466 | 36.4%3,132 | 8,598 |
The 2024 presidential margin was D+7.9, one of the narrower results among Connecticut's state house districts, compared with D+22.5 in 2008. Catholic adherents were the largest religious group at 46.1% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 48.3 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.9 points.
A population of 23,926, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,825 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 27 and State House District 32.
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 29th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/09029/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.