More than 38,000 New Haveners voted in last week’s presidential election — which was 4,000 fewer than voted four years ago, marking a drop in overall citywide turnout from 66 to 63 percent.
Those numbers and many more are contained in the official ward-by-ward breakdown for the Nov. 5 general election results. The Registrar of Voters office released that district-detailed data on Tuesday.
Click here to download the full spreadsheet.
Some highlights from the Nov. 5 official election results include:
• 38,097 of the city’s 60,203 registered voters cast ballots in the presidential election, marking a citywide turnout of 63.28 percent. That compares to a 66.28 percent turnout in 2020’s presidential election, when 42,257 registered voters voted.
• The Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won 80 percent of the New Haven vote, or 30,662 votes in total; the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance won 17 percent, or 6,626 votes; and the Green Party ticket of Jill Stein and Butch Ware won 1.5 percent, or 578 votes. (Harris / Walz also beat Trump/Vance 56 percent to 42 percent statewide but, of course, lost the national election.)
• Harris / Walz won every ward in the city, with Westville’s Ward 25 delivering the largest number of votes for the Democratic ticket (1,975) and Morris Cove’s Ward 18 delivering the largest number of votes for the Republican ticket (801).
• The highest voting wards in the city were Westville’s Ward 25 (2,323 votes, or 80 percent turnout), East Rock’s Ward 10 (2,221 / 70 percent), Westville’s Ward 26 (2,157 / 78 percent), Downtown’s Ward 7 (2,037 / 60 percent), and Morris Cove’s Ward 18 (1,983 / 82 percent).
• New Haveners voted overwhelmingly in support of the no-excuse absentee ballot question, with 23,183 voting “yes” and 5,444 voting “no.” (That ballot measure also won statewide, with 58 percent of Connecticut voters voting “yes”.)
• While Republican congressional challenger Michael Massey got more than 41 percent of the vote compared to incumbent Democrat Rosa DeLauro’s 59 percent across the whole Third Congressional District, he secured only 15 percent of the vote in New Haven, with 5,938 votes in total, compared to DeLauro’s 83 percent, or 30,720 votes.
• Green Party challenger Paul Garlinghouse fell well short in his bid to secure a third, and third-party, Registrar of Voters position in city government. He won only 3 percent of the vote, or 1,189 votes in total, compared to 16 percent (5,831) for Republican Lisa Milone and 80 percent (28,305) for incumbent Democrat Shannel Evans.