- Lead
- 1,236
- Total
- 9,265
- vs nation
- D+14.8
Connecticut 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,049
- Total
- 11,020
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 1,446
- Total
- 9,941
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 2,335
- Total
- 9,421
- vs nation
- D+20.9
- Lead
- 2,554
- Total
- 9,986
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 1,240
- Total
- 9,586
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 2,151
- Total
- 8,983
- vs nation
- D+23.4
- Lead
- 2,036
- Total
- 8,757
- vs nation
- D+14.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+13.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,6862024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,755 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,7692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 56.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 28.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 24, CT · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 82nd 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
70.2%
5,812 votes · D+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 62.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
61.8%
4,832 votes · R+23.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 59.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,448votes
58.5% of the vote · D+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 6,204 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
5,357votes
58.5% of the vote · R+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 5,061 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
+23.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +20.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+12.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+7.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +10.6 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 | 58.3%5,558 | 41.7%3,973 | 9,531 |
| 2018 | D | 60.8%5,081 | 39.2%3,271 | 8,352 |
Connecticut 82nd State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.3 points.
A population of 23,686, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,769 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 24 and State House District 115.
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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