United States congressional delegations from Connecticut

Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were elected by the Connecticut General Assembly.

[3] Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House, depending on population, to two-year terms.

[10] Connecticut's current congressional delegation in the 119th Congress consists of its two senators and its five representatives, all of whom are Democrats.

[9] As of August 2023, the Cook Partisan Voting Index, a determination of how strongly partisan a state is,[15] ranked all districts and senate races in Connecticut as solidly Democratic, except for the 5th House district, currently represented by Jahana Hayes, which was ranked as leaning Republican.

[14] Senators Oliver Ellsworth, William S. Johnson, and Roger Sherman were Founding Fathers.

[18] Ellsworth helped write the Judiciary Act of 1789, and later served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Democratic (D) Democratic-Republican (DR) Jacksonian (J) National Republican (NR) Whig (W) Following the 1840 census, Connecticut was apportioned four seats.

Democratic (D) Free Soil (FS) Know Nothing (KN) Republican (R) Whig (W) Following the 1900 census, Connecticut was apportioned five seats.

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Map of Connecticut's five congressional districts for the United States House of Representatives since 2022
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Oliver Ellsworth , Connecticut senator who drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789 [ 28 ]
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Orville Platt , Connecticut senator who helped draft the Platt Amendment [ 22 ]
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Brien McMahon , Connecticut senator who wrote the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 [ 29 ]
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Joe Lieberman , Connecticut senator who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee , becoming the first Jewish American to be a major party nominee [ 30 ]
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Chris Dodd , Connecticut senator who was a candidate during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries [ 31 ]
Black-and-white photograph of Clare Boothe Luce, the first female member of the house from Connecticut
Clare Boothe Luce , the first female member of the House from Connecticut [ 54 ]
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Chris Shays , the last Republican to have represented Connecticut in Congress [ 14 ]