- Lead
- 2,648
- Total
- 9,900
- vs nation
- D+28.2
Connecticut 146th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,106
- Total
- 8,512
- vs nation
- D+43.8
- Lead
- 3,181
- Total
- 7,187
- vs nation
- D+42.2
- Lead
- 2,447
- Total
- 6,619
- vs nation
- D+33.1
- Lead
- 3,068
- Total
- 7,048
- vs nation
- D+36.3
- Lead
- 2,044
- Total
- 6,593
- vs nation
- D+33.5
- Lead
- 2,151
- Total
- 6,132
- vs nation
- D+34.6
- Lead
- 1,880
- Total
- 5,797
- vs nation
- D+23.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,5942024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,831 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $106,0032024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 30.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 137, CT · twin score 96.1
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 146th 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
73.4%
6,246 votes · D+48.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 73.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
57.1%
2,348 votes · R+14.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 54.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,246votes
73.4% of the vote · D+48.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,192 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,544votes
35.8% of the vote · D+26.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,018 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
+43.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.2 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +42.2 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
−1.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.2 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −2.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 61.4%5,194 | 38.6%3,264 | 8,458 |
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 26 points Democratic, District 146 ranks among the state's most reliably blue constituencies, reflecting the dense urban or inner-suburban character typical of such heavily one-sided legislative seats.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 23.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 21.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.7 points.
A population of 23,594, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $106,003 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 137 and State House District 145.
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 146th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/09146/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.