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Toward the end of the 2024 legislative session, when the more contentious bills hit the floors of the Connecticut House and Senate, it got easier to predict which members of the General Assembly would vote against nearly every bill that Democrats proposed.

But that wasn’t the case throughout the session. For the most part, the 175 bills passed by the General Assembly received bipartisan support.

Democrats held firm majorities in both the House and the Senate, so caucus leaders were able to call bills that they knew would have no trouble passing. Democratic majorities increased for this coming session, which opens Wednesday.

The bill that got the most “no” votes in 2024 was HB5005, a bill that expanded paid sick days. The bill passed the House 88-61 and the Senate 23-12. Nine Democrats joined 52 Republicans in the House in voting against.

Correction

An earlier version of this graphic incorrectly cited the Office of Legislative Research as the source of the data. The data was taken from individual pages on the ct.gov website, not from OLR.

As CT Mirror's Managing Editor Stephen helps manage and support a staff of 16 reporters.  His career in daily journalism includes 20 years at The Hartford Courant, where he served as a member of the editorial board, data editor, breaking news editor and bureau chief.  Prior to that Stephen was city editor at the Casper Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyo., and the editor of the Daily Press in Craig, Colo.  He has won many awards for editorial writing, data journalism and breaking news. While he was breaking news editor, The Courant was a named finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the Sandy Hook shootings.  Busemeyer is a Koeppel Journalism Fellow at Wesleyan University, where he teaches data journalism, and he has also taught at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut and the University of Colorado.