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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

State race roundup

MikeCT at MLN breaks it all down the big state races.

House


Open seats - Dems win

  • Jason Bartlett defeats Gallagher, picking up former R seat

  • Beth Bye defeats Barbara Carpenter for Bob Farr's R seat!  West Hartford now all-Democratic!

  • Tom Kehoe defeats Susan Karp for previous Sonny Googin R seat


  • Bryan Hurlburt wins over Teveris, keeping Democratic seat

  • Frank Nicastro defeats Henry, keeping Dem seat

  • Joe Taborsak defeats Seabury, keeping Dem seat of Lew Wallace

  • Elissa Wright defeats Bond, picking up former R seat (Winkler)


Open seats- Rs win

None?


D challengers defeat R incumbent

  • Kim Fawcett defeating Cathy Tymniak (5 of 6 precincts)


  • William Tong defeats Don Sherer


R challengers defeat D incumbent

  • Ron Burns defeats Roger Michele


Other Notables

  • Joe Aresimowicz (D) defends seat against Pocock, who far out-raised him

  • Mike Alberts (R) keeps seat against Sherri Vogt (sigh)

  • Derek Donnelly -D lost to Fahrbach

  • John Harkins - R defeats Dave Mooney


Senate



Open seats - Republicans win

  • Sam Caliguiri beats David Zoni for Chris Murphy's old Senate seat

  • Dan Debicella beats Chris Jones (17 of 19 precincts)


Open seats - Dems win

  • Andy Maynard beats Winkler for Cathy Cook's old R seat

  • Paul Doyle (conservative Dem) beats Capenera, keeping Dem seat


Dem Senator challengers beat R incumbent

  • Steve Berry beats incumbent Tom Herlihy


Notable races


  • Ed Meyer beats Family Institute candidate Gregg Hannan (yeah!) 63-37

  • Gayle Slossberg beats Lisaman 2-1

  • Andrea Stillman beats Family Inst. candidate Oliveira

  • Sen Andy McDonald defeats Family Inst candidate Giordano

  • Dem Ed Krumeich very narrowly loses challenge to Claudia Powers in Greenwich!