- Lead
- 2,729
- Total
- 10,245
- vs nation
- D+28.1
Connecticut 144th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,841
- Total
- 10,750
- vs nation
- D+31.3
- Lead
- 2,993
- Total
- 9,261
- vs nation
- D+30.2
- Lead
- 2,063
- Total
- 8,602
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 2,816
- Total
- 9,094
- vs nation
- D+23.7
- Lead
- 1,524
- Total
- 8,677
- vs nation
- D+20.0
- Lead
- 1,782
- Total
- 8,021
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 1,528
- Total
- 7,637
- vs nation
- D+11.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,4092024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,628 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $121,8622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 142, CT · twin score 88.1
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 144th 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
Joe Biden2020
67.2%
7,227 votes · D+35.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 67.0%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
64.0%
3,677 votes · R+28.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 60.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,227votes
67.2% of the vote · D+35.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,403 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
4,732votes
59.2% of the vote · R+18.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 4,296 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
Joe Biden2020
+31.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +30.2 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+12.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.0 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +10.5 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 | 61.7%6,616 | 38.3%4,112 | 10,728 |
| 2018 | D | 61.4%5,373 | 38.6%3,377 | 8,750 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+26.6, this Hartford-area district consistently posts some of the widest Democratic margins in the Connecticut General Assembly, reflecting a dense, urban-leaning constituency.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 34.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.6 points.
A population of 24,409, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $121,862 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 142 and State House District 137.
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 144th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/09144/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.