Connecticut 2020 result by county with cartogram (updated to 1984)

[Neptunium]

Source:
Leip, David. Dave Leip's Atlas of U . S. Presidential Elections. http://uselectionatlas . org (date).


Here we only show the name of county which is large enough in cartogram, so some county name will appear and some disappear as time goes.

Hope you enjoy .




2004:

John Kerry   Democratic           857,488   54.31%
George W. Bush   Republican   693,826   43.95%




2008:

Barack H. Obama   Democratic   997,773   60.59%
John S. McCain, III   Republican   629,428   38.22%




2012:

Barack H. Obama   Democratic   905,109   58.06%
Willard Mitt Romney   Republican   634,899   40.72%




2016:

Hillary Clinton       Democratic   897,572   54.57%
Donald J. Trump   Republican   673,215   40.93%
Gary Johnson        Libertarian      48,676     2.96%




2020:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.   Democratic   1,080,680   59.24%
Donald J. Trump   Republican      715,291   39.21%




Fairfield county use to be a relatively red county before it wasn't.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Elephant beetle!

[Catalyst138]

Some people think Connecticut could become more competitive in the near future but I don’t see that happening. Fairfield County is the fastest growing area in the state and it’s also becoming the most Democratic. Some of the rural areas in Windham and Litchfield are getting more Republican but there aren’t as many people in those counties, and the rest of the state is mostly static from 2012.

[Non Swing Voter]

Some people think Connecticut could become more competitive in the near future but I don’t see that happening. Fairfield County is the fastest growing area in the state and it’s also becoming the most Democratic. Some of the rural areas in Windham and Litchfield are getting more Republican but there aren’t as many people in those counties, and the rest of the state is mostly static from 2012.

I agree.  I don't see where people get the idea that Connecticut could trend GOP.  It's basically like a more Democratic version of Virginia.  It's extremely educated, white collar and also 30%+ non-white. The rural areas have tiny populations.  It's just not really trending Democratic because it was already so Democratic but there's literally no evidence that the state will be competitive anytime soon.

[Calthrina950]

I'm still surprised that Biden was unable to win back Windham County, which Trump flipped in 2016. Biden built upon Clinton's margins elsewhere, largely by significantly improving over her in Fairfield County, where he obtained 63% of the vote. Fairfield County was once one of the most Republican counties in the state, but this year, it was the second most-Democratic (narrowly edged out by Hartford County). Suburban towns such as Darien which had never voted Democratic before 2016 went heavily for Biden. Connecticut exemplifies the coalition shift which has taken place. Rural, blue-collar, white working-class voters have moved Republican, while suburban and urban, white-collar, college-educated white voters have moved Democratic.

[Neptunium]

Update to 1984:

Source:
Leip, David. Dave Leip's Atlas of U . S. Presidential Elections. http://uselectionatlas . org (date).






1984:

Ronald Reagan   Republican   890,877   60.73%
Walter Mondale   Democrat     569,597   38.83%




1988:

George Bush   Republican   750,241   51.98%
Michael Dukakis   Democrat     676,584   46.87%




1992:

William Clinton   Democratic   682,318   42.21%
George Bush   Republican   578,313   35.78%
H. Ross Perot   Amer. for Perot   348,771   21.58%




1996:

William Clinton   Democratic   735,740   52.83%
Robert Dole   Republican   483,109   34.69%
H. Ross Perot   Reform         139,523   10.02%




2000:

Albert Gore Jr.   Democratic   816,015   55.91%
George W. Bush   Republican   561,094   38.44%
Ralph Nader   Green          64,452     4.42%

[mpbond]

Some people think Connecticut could become more competitive in the near future but I don’t see that happening. Fairfield County is the fastest growing area in the state and it’s also becoming the most Democratic. Some of the rural areas in Windham and Litchfield are getting more Republican but there aren’t as many people in those counties, and the rest of the state is mostly static from 2012.

It's a classic case of every time a blue collar Manufacturer in Naugatuck starts voting Republican, a white collar Insurance Exec. in Farmington starts voting Democratic. The Long term problem for the GOP is that their strongest areas (Rural East & West, and the industrial Naugatuck Valley) are hemorrhaging population, meanwhile suburban Hartford and New York are the only places in the state that are growing and are becoming very, very Democratic. This kind of story is playing out across the country, but it's more pronounced in CT because of our smaller size and population.