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Voter turnout statewide reached 36% in the 2025 municipal elections — higher turnout than Connecticut saw in the 2021 and the 2023 elections, according to this morning’s preliminary results.

As of Friday morning, the Secretary of the State reported that 788,511 of 2.18 million registered Connecticut voters had their votes counted — either after showing up to the polls on Tuesday, during early voting or through a mail-in ballot. With 99.85% of precincts reporting, 2025 voter turnout was nearly four percentage points above 2021 municipal election turnout.

While the results for this year’s municipal election resulted in a “blue wave,” flipping 29 Connecticut towns and cities to Democrat control, voter turnout for the Democratic primary earlier this year was nearly 3 points below Republican primary turnout. Historically, fewer Democrats have showed up to the polls during primaries than Republicans.

Despite higher voter turnout this municipal election cycle, in some of the state’s most populated areas, less than 10% of eligible voters cast a ballot.

Hartford and Bridgeport saw some of the lowest turnout numbers state-wide, with less than 5% voter turnout in Bridgeport and less than 7% voter turnout in Hartford.

In Hartford, the only races on the ballot were for school board candidates. But in Bridgeport, there were city council races for various districts as well as school board and city sheriff races.

This was the first municipal election with early voting after a law was passed in 2023 creating a system of early voting rules. The law requires 14 days of early voting for general elections.

The most recent election results by town can be found here.

Sasha is a data reporting fellow with The Connecticut Mirror. She graduated from the University of Maryland in May with a degree in journalism and a minor in creative writing. For the past year Sasha was working part time for the Herald-Mail, a newspaper based in Western Maryland. She was also a reporter and copy editor for Capital News Service, the university’s wire service where she covered the state legislature, the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, school board elections, youth mental health and climate change. Earlier in her college career, Sasha also interned at the Baltimore Magazine and wrote for numerous student publications including the Diamondback, the university’s independent, student-run newspaper.