The Connecticut Senate election, 2008 was held on November 4, 2008, to elect Senators to the

Connecticut State Senate The Connecticut State Senate is the upper house of the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The state senate comprises 36 members, each representing a district with around 99,280 inhabitants. Sena ...

for the term which began in January 2009 and ended in January 2011. The election occurred on the same date as other federal and state elections, including the quadrennial

U.S. presidential election The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not direc ...

. The 2008 election saw the election or re-election of 24 Democrats and 12

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to fill the Senate's 36 seats. The incumbent party in each district held onto control of their respective seats in the election, except for one seat which changed control from Republican to Democratic.

Results

Results of the 2008 Connecticut Senate election. Party shading denotes winner of Senate seat. ;Notes ^TP Denotes that a minor,

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candidate (or candidates) also ran in this district's election. ^RWI Denotes that a registered write-in candidate (or candidates) was also present in this district's election. ^WF Denotes that this candidate also ran on the line of the Connecticut Working Families Party. The votes won by this candidate include both their Working Families and their party of affiliation figures combined. ^I Denotes that this candidate also ran on the independent line. The votes won by this candidate include both their independent and their party of affiliation figures combined.

References

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