Stamford’s delegation to Hartford stays mostly blue
STAMFORD — All incumbent Democratic state representatives whose districts are wholly in Stamford won re-election on Tuesday, and a House seat covering parts of Stamford and Greenwich turned blue.
Turnout in Stamford was about 52 percent overall in Tuesday’s election.
State Representative Hubert Delany, D-144; Corey Paris, D-145; David Michel, D-146; Matt Blumenthal, D-147; and Daniel Fox, D-148, each won 60 percent or more of the vote in their respective races, according to unofficial results released on the Secretary of State’s website.
In the 149th State House District, which includes parts of Stamford and Greenwich, Democrat Rachel Khanna unseated Republican Kimberly Fiorello. Khanna narrowly won with around 51 percent of the vote.
That means all but one state representative whose districts include parts of Stamford will be Democrats.
Due to the redistribution, the 125th State House District has expanded into northeast Stamford. Republican incumbent Tom O’Dea secured around 54 percent of the vote on Tuesday to defeat Democrat Victor Alvarez.
In the Senate races, Democrat Patricia Billie Miller was re-elected as Senator for the 27th District, which includes parts of Stamford and Darien. Miller first won the seat in a special election in March 2021 after serving 12 years as a representative of the 145th district of the State House. On Tuesday, she defeated Republican Michael Battinelli with around 62 percent of the vote.
“I would like to thank my delegation. I’m so proud to have Matt, to have Hubert, to have Dan, to have Corey and to have David back because they are a force to be reckoned with in the House,” Miller said Tuesday night when Stamford Democrats Gathered at Towne Parlor Pizza & Pints. “I want to thank you for allowing me, for helping me do the things I’ve done, do my job, bring in money and get our fair share back for Stamford.”
In the 26th-state Senate district, which now includes Stamford’s Springdale neighborhood, Democrat Ceci Maher won the open seat with about 57 percent of the vote, ahead of Republican Toni Boucher.
Current 26th District Senator Will Haskell, a Democrat, did not run for re-election this year. Boucher, who held the seat for a decade before Haskell ousted her, had tried to retake it.
The race in the 36th Senate district, which includes all of Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan, was too close to announce Tuesday night. Democrat Trevor Crow trailed Republican incumbent Ryan Fazio by about 100 votes Wednesday. A recount will take place in the coming days.
Stamford Republican Town Committee Chairman Joshua Esses said he was “confident that Sen. Fazio will prevail after a recount.” Esses said he was also happy that O’Dea was now part of Stamford’s delegation.
“But we still have a lot of work to do to convince voters that they will be better off under Republican leadership,” Esses said.
Meanwhile, US Rep. Jim Himes will remain in Congress as the representative of Connecticut’s 4th Circuit, which includes Stamford and other Fairfield County communities. Himes, a Democrat, fought off Republican and former Darien first selectman Jayme Stevenson. He received around 59 percent of the votes.
For the Board of Education, Democrat Versha Munshi-South, Democrat Michael Hyman and Republican Lisa Butler each won three-year terms. Three seats on the board were available, but Democrats could not win more than two due to minority representation rules.
Munshi-South received 20,323 votes and Hyman won 20,233. Behind is the incumbent Democrat Daniel Dauplaise with 19,085 votes and is leaving the board.
Butler won 15,102 votes. Republicans Diane Melchionne and Joseph Andreana Jr. followed her with 14,879 and 14,607 votes, respectively.
Includes reports by JD Freda, Liz Hardaway, Ken Borsuk, Robert Marchant, Grace Duffield, and Ignacio Laguarda.
