- Lead
- 1,508
- Total
- 10,760
- vs nation
- R+12.5
Connecticut 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 760
- Total
- 10,000
- vs nation
- R+12.1
- Lead
- 1,390
- Total
- 9,010
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 445
- Total
- 8,484
- vs nation
- R+9.1
- Lead
- 257
- Total
- 9,028
- vs nation
- R+4.4
- Lead
- 641
- Total
- 8,830
- vs nation
- R+4.8
- Lead
- 92
- Total
- 8,057
- vs nation
- D+0.6
- Lead
- 373
- Total
- 7,580
- vs nation
- R+3.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+14.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,4252024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,789 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,9102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.6 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 78, CT · twin score 88.7
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 65th 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
64.8%
3,601 votes · D+29.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 51.9%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
70.8%
3,752 votes · R+41.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
4,567votes
50.6% of the vote · D+2.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,537 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,045votes
56.2% of the vote · R+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,280 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+7.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +0.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+35.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +33.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Nestled in Connecticut's northwestern corner, this district posts some of the state's widest Republican presidential margins, signaling a rural and small-town electorate that diverges sharply from the state's dense coastal centers.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.6 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.0 points.
A population of 23,425, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,910 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 78 and State House District 99.
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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