- Lead
- 4,670
- Total
- 13,484
- vs nation
- D+36.1
Connecticut 60th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,469
- Total
- 14,407
- vs nation
- D+26.6
- Lead
- 2,664
- Total
- 12,742
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 2,952
- Total
- 12,245
- vs nation
- D+20.3
- Lead
- 3,824
- Total
- 12,895
- vs nation
- D+22.4
- Lead
- 2,122
- Total
- 12,252
- vs nation
- D+19.8
- Lead
- 2,742
- Total
- 11,525
- vs nation
- D+23.3
- Lead
- 2,696
- Total
- 11,219
- vs nation
- D+15.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+34.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,2432024 5-year
- Population density
- 911 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 26.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,4382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 60.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.7 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 20, CT · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 60th 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
72.1%
7,383 votes · D+44.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 66.4%
Republican
William McKinley1896
68.2%
776 votes · R+42.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · 62.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,328votes
64.7% of the vote · D+31.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,954 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
6,657votes
56.0% of the vote · R+12.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 6,201 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
Kamala Harris2024
+36.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +26.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+36.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.7 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +21.6 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%7,109 | 36.6%4,100 | 11,209 |
| 2018 | D | 63.6%5,539 | 36.4%3,173 | 8,712 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+34.6, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic state house seats in Connecticut, suggesting a dense, urban-leaning electorate with consistent partisan alignment across cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.7 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.6 points.
A population of 24,243, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,438 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 20 and State House District 88.
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 60th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/09060/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.