Eleven candidates are running for Connecticut’s five U.S. House districts—tying with 2022 for the second-fewest in the last ten years

This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Connecticut was June 11, 2024.

Eleven candidates are running for Connecticut’s five U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and six Republicans. That’s an average of 2.2 candidates per district. There was an average of 2.2 candidates per district in 2022, 2.6 candidates per district in 2020, and 2.6 in 2018.

Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings:

• The number of candidates running for the U.S. House in Connecticut this year is tied with 2022 for the second-fewest in the last 10 years.

• No districts are open this year, meaning all incumbents are running for re-election. One district was open in 2018, the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district was open.
• Three candidates—one Democrat and two Republicans—are running for the 4th Congressional District, the most candidates running for a district in Connecticut this year.
• The Republican primary for the 4th Congressional District is the only contested primary this year.
• No incumbents are running in a contested primary this year for the sixth consecutive election cycle.
• Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all five districts, meaning no seats are guaranteed to either party.

Connecticut and three other states—Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin—are holding primary elections on August 13.

In Connecticut, the winner of the primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast even if they do not win an outright majority.