- Lead
- 9,446
- Total
- 53,940
- vs nation
- D+19.0
Connecticut 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,067
- Total
- 60,661
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 9,137
- Total
- 53,065
- vs nation
- D+15.1
- Lead
- 3,891
- Total
- 49,975
- vs nation
- D+3.9
- Lead
- 7,986
- Total
- 52,095
- vs nation
- D+8.1
- Lead
- 654
- Total
- 50,901
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 3,074
- Total
- 46,836
- vs nation
- D+6.0
- Lead
- 2,325
- Total
- 44,888
- vs nation
- R+3.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 104,0822024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,169 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 89 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $204,6092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.8 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 28, CT · twin score 96.7
presidential history
Party record book
Connecticut 36th State Senate 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
61.7%
37,406 votes · D+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 59.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
71.3%
25,906 votes · R+42.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
37,406votes
61.7% of the vote · D+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 31,283 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
33,346votes
66.9% of the vote · R+34.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 30,256 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
+20.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.8 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +19.0 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+27.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.6 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +25.7 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%28,210 | 38.3%17,534 | 45,744 |
| 2018 | D | 61.4%22,912 | 38.6%14,400 | 37,312 |
Connecticut 36th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 45.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.5 points.
A population of 104,082, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $204,609 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 28 and State Senate District 26.
The state-senate 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 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/09036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.