State reference

How does government work in Connecticut?

Connecticut’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

187

State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

In effect since: 1965 source

What may surprise you here

Connecticut has no county governments. Local government is split between towns and a smaller number of municipal governments. source
Most Connecticut school systems are run by a town or city government rather than a separate school district. source

Legislature

Name: General Assembly source
Senate: seats: 36 source
Senate: term in years: 2 source
House of Representatives: seats: 151 source
House of Representatives: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: None source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: None source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: joint ticket source
Attorney general: elected source
Attorney general’s term in years: 4 source
Secretary of state: elected source
Secretary of state’s term in years: 4 source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Appellate Court source
Main trial court: Superior Court source
How high-court judges reach the bench: mixed: governor nominates from a commission and the General Assembly appoints source

Local government

Called: none source
How many: 0 source
Cities and towns: Connecticut has 30 municipal governments and 149 township governments, and no county governments, as of the 2022 Census of Governments. source
Schools: Connecticut has 17 independent school districts, and 149 more school systems are run by town or city governments (2022 Census of Governments). source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: Town clerks and registrars of voters share the work source
Primary type: partially closed source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: no source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Ned Lamont Democratic, in office since January 9, 2019. source

US senators for Connecticut
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Richard Blumenthal	Democratic	Class 3	January 5, 2011	January 3, 2029
Christopher Murphy	Democratic	Class 1	January 3, 2013	January 3, 2031

Members of the House for Connecticut
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	John B. Larson	Democratic	January 6, 1999
District 2	Joe Courtney	Democratic	January 4, 2007
District 3	Rosa L. DeLauro	Democratic	January 3, 1991
District 4	James A. Himes	Democratic	January 6, 2009
District 5	Jahana Hayes	Democratic	January 3, 2019

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 1