On April 25, Connecticut held a special election to fill the vacant State House seat, 7th district, in Hartford. The Working Families Party nominee, Joshua Hall, defeated his opponents. The vote by party: Working Families Party 625; Democratic 512; independent candidate 367. See this story.
Nice to see another third party win on a state level
True, it’s also nice to see them for once running against a Democrat. One wonders if they would have if there had been a Republican in the race. I know I’m too harsh on them, but they are like what some members think the Green Party should become, and I just generally find them rather worrying. Still, it was a third-party win, so good job here.
Two Errors, first, the Independent Candidate was a Republican petitioning to get on the ballot, second, Giselle Jacobs received 17 votes as a write-in independent candidate.
The independent candidate may have been a registered Republican, but technically he wasn’t the Republican nominee. Connecticut doesn’t enforce any correspondence between a candidate’s individual party registration, and the identity of the group that nominates him or her. The Working Families Party nominee, who won, is a registered Democrat.
Nice