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The partisan breakdown of Connecticut’s new map
Status:Approved
partisan lean of districts:
Old map
5 districts
majority
This map
5 districts
There are 3 Democratic-leaning seats and 2 highly competitive seats in Connecticut’s new map.Change from old map: None.

Map source: Nathaniel Persily

The competitiveness and fairness of Connecticut's maps
Median seat
Difference between the partisan lean of the state’s median district and the state as a whole.
Old mapD+1.5
New mapR+0.2
Efficiency gap
Difference between each party’s share of “wasted votes” — those that don’t contribute to a candidate winning.
Old mapD+29.7
New mapD+29.7
Competitiveness
The number of districts in the state whose partisan leans are between R+5 and D+5.
Old map2/5
New map2/5
The demographic and partisan breakdown of Connecticut’s new map
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other
DistrictIncumbentPartisan leanRacial makeup
1st
John B. LarsonD
D+21
2nd
Joe CourtneyD
D+3
3rd
Rosa L. DeLauroD
D+12
4th
Jim HimesD
D+23
5th
Jahana HayesD
D+3

The racial makeup of each district is of the voting-age population.

The latest in Connecticut

Feb. 11, 2022

The Connecticut Supreme Court approved the state’s congressional map on Feb. 10 after a long and drawn-out process.

Control over redistricting was handed over to the court last year after a bipartisan panel of state lawmakers missed multiple deadlines to reach a consensus on their own. The new map was drawn by a court-appointed special master, Nathaniel Persily, who also drew the state’s old map when the panel failed to come to an agreement during the last redistricting cycle and the court was forced to step in.

Despite all the hassle, the new map is very similar to the old map. Connecticut will continue to have three Democratic-leaning seats and two competitive seats, with no change to the competitiveness of the two swing districts. One of the Democratic-leaning seats became slightly less Democratic-leaning, and another became slightly more Democratic-leaning, but overall, the new map seems very likely to preserve the political status quo in Connecticut.

Latest updates
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Feb. 10
The Connecticut Supreme Court adopted a new congressional map, drawn by a special master. The map becomes effective once the court files it with the Secretary of State's office, on or before Feb. 15.
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Jan. 27
The Connecticut Supreme Court heard oral arguments from the Democratic and Republican members of the Connecticut Reapportionment Commission.
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Jan. 25
The Connecticut Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from the state Democratic and Republican parties on Thursday Jan. 27, 2022 at 10 AM.
Who controls redistricting in Connecticut right now?
Neither party fully controls the congressional redistricting process. New maps are drawn by the Democratic state legislature and enacted by two-thirds of each chamber. If the legislature fails to pass a map, redistricting falls to a bipartisan commission made up of state legislators.