Connecticut Voter Guide 2026

Ned Lamont is Connecticut's incumbent governor and a Democratic candidate for re-election. A former business executive, Lamont has emphasized fiscal stability, infrastructure, education, clean energy, and maintaining Connecticut's social services and reproductive-rights protections.

Priorities: Maintain fiscal stability and economic growth · Invest in infrastructure, education, and clean energy · Protect health care and reproductive rights

Josh Elliott is a Democratic candidate for Connecticut governor and a state representative from Hamden. His public work and campaign messaging focus on affordability, housing, health care, labor, and a more progressive direction for state government.

Priorities: Lower housing and health-care costs · Support workers and labor protections · Push a more progressive state agenda

Ryan Fazio is a Republican candidate for Connecticut governor and a state senator from Greenwich. His public profile centers on affordability, energy costs, taxes, public safety, and changing the direction of state government.

Priorities: Lower taxes and energy costs · Improve affordability and economic competitiveness · Strengthen public safety and accountability

Erin Stewart is a Republican candidate for Connecticut governor and the mayor of New Britain. She has built her public profile around municipal management, economic development, public safety, and presenting a pragmatic Republican alternative in state politics.

Priorities: Bring municipal management experience to state government · Improve affordability and economic development · Strengthen public safety and local services

Betsy McCaughey is a Republican candidate for Connecticut governor, former lieutenant governor of New York, author, and health-policy commentator. Her campaign emphasizes taxes, affordability, public safety, parental rights, and conservative state policy.

Priorities: Lower taxes and cost pressure · Strengthen public safety · Advance conservative education and health-policy priorities

Susan Bysiewicz is Connecticut's incumbent lieutenant governor and a Democratic candidate for re-election, serving since 2019 alongside Gov. Ned Lamont. She previously served as secretary of the state.

Priorities: Support small businesses and workforce development · Women's rights · Civic engagement

Matthew Corey is a Republican candidate for Connecticut lieutenant governor, a Hartford small-business owner and Navy veteran who has run for U.S. Senate and House.

Priorities: Lower taxes and costs · Support small business · Public safety

William Tong is Connecticut's incumbent attorney general and a Democratic candidate for re-election, serving since 2019 as the first Asian American elected statewide in Connecticut. He campaigns on consumer protection, health care costs, and defending Connecticut residents' rights.

Priorities: Consumer protection · Health care affordability enforcement · Defend residents' rights

John Bolton is a Republican candidate for Connecticut attorney general on the 2026 ballot.

Stephanie Thomas is Connecticut's incumbent secretary of the state and a Democratic candidate for re-election, serving since 2023. She campaigns on election administration, voter access, and civic education.

Priorities: Secure, accessible elections · Civic education · Business services modernization

Peter Lumaj is a Republican candidate for Connecticut secretary of the state, an attorney who has previously run for the office. He campaigns on voter-ID requirements and election integrity.

Priorities: Voter ID and election integrity · Clean voter rolls · Efficient business filings

Sean Scanlon is Connecticut's incumbent comptroller and a Democratic candidate for re-election, serving since 2023. A former state representative, he campaigns on health care cost control, pension stewardship, and fiscal transparency.

Priorities: Health care cost control · Pension stewardship · Fiscal transparency

Jennifer Tooker is a Republican candidate for Connecticut comptroller, the first selectwoman of Westport with a background in financial services.

Priorities: Fiscal discipline · Pension accountability · Efficient state government

Erick Russell is Connecticut's incumbent treasurer and a Democratic candidate for re-election, serving since 2023 as the first Black openly gay statewide elected official in the U.S. He campaigns on pension-fund performance and expanding the Baby Bonds program.

Priorities: Pension-fund performance · Baby Bonds and family wealth-building · Responsible debt management

Fred Wilms is a Republican candidate for Connecticut treasurer, a former state representative and banking executive campaigning on investment returns and fiscal discipline.

Priorities: Strong investment returns · Fiscal discipline · Pension sustainability

Former two-term Hartford mayor and U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer who deployed to Afghanistan, per CT Mirror; he won the Democratic convention endorsement in a May upset over 14-term incumbent John Larson.

Priorities: Making life easier, healthier, and more affordable, per his campaign site · A new direction for the Democratic Party, per his campaign site

Amy Chai was the sole Republican filer for Connecticut's 1st District, so no Republican primary was held. She is the party's nominee on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Associated Press results feed for the August 11 primary.

Joe Courtney is the sitting U.S. representative for this district and appears on the Democratic primary ballot for CT-2 on August 11, 2026, per the Connecticut Secretary of the State's certified list.

George Austin was the sole Republican filer for Connecticut's 2nd District, so no Republican primary was held. He is the party's nominee on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Associated Press results feed for the August 11 primary.

Rosa DeLauro is the sitting U.S. representative for this district and appears on the Democratic primary ballot for CT-3 on August 11, 2026, per the Connecticut Secretary of the State's certified list.

Christopher Lancia was the sole Republican filer for Connecticut's 3rd District, so no Republican primary was held. He is the party's nominee on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Associated Press results feed for the August 11 primary.

Jim Himes is the sitting U.S. representative for this district and appears on the Democratic primary ballot for CT-4 on August 11, 2026, per the Connecticut Secretary of the State's certified list.

Physician and attorney — a corneal transplant surgeon for over 40 years and a Greenwich RTM member, per his campaign site and Greenwich Free Press; the 2024 Republican nominee in this district and this year's convention-endorsed candidate, per CT Mirror.

Priorities: Lowering healthcare costs by restoring competition, per his campaign site · Cutting electricity costs via natural gas pipeline capacity, per his campaign site · Career-pathway education, per his campaign site

Jahana Hayes is the sitting U.S. representative for this district and appears on the Democratic primary ballot for CT-5 on August 11, 2026, per the Connecticut Secretary of the State's certified list.

North Haven fire lieutenant and retired U.S. Navy SEAL whose service began in 1991 as a hospital corpsman before tours with SEAL Teams 8 and 18 and the Pentagon, per his campaign site; founder of the nonprofit Hero to Hero and the Republican convention-endorsed candidate, per CT Mirror.

Priorities: Lowering costs, per his campaign site · Growing wages, per his campaign site · Protecting America, per his campaign site