Voters in Easton and surrounding towns re-elected three incumbents to represent them in the Connecticut General Assembly. Democrat Anne Hughes retained her 135th House District seat, Republican Tony Hwang won re-election to represent Senate District 28, and Republican Tony Scott will remain in the 112th House District.
Hwang, who represents Easton, Newtown, Fairfield and part of Bethel, received 55% (32,552) of the overall vote to Democrat Rob Blanchard’s 45% (27,086), a margin of 5,466 votes, according to the unofficial results from the Connecticut Secretary of the State website. Hwang received a majority of the votes from each of the four towns, 2,742 (57%) to 2,058 (43%) in Easton, 2,538 (53%) to 2,288 (47%) in Bethel, 18,187 (54%) to 15,591 (46%) in Fairfield and 9,437 (56%) to 7,470 (44%) in Newtown.
Hughes received 61% (8,573) of the total votes over challenger Chris Peritore’s 39% (5,572). She received the majority of votes from all three towns voting for the 135th, which includes a portion of Easton, Redding, and Weston. Hughes’ margin of victory by town was 55 votes in Easton (1,267 to 1212), 1,303 in Redding (3,431 to 2,128) and 1,643 in Weston (3,875 to 2,232).
Scott’s Democratic challenger, Beth Cliff, received 1,170 votes in Easton to Scott’s 1,133, but those 37 votes were more than offset by results in Monroe, where Scott received 6,485 votes to Cliff’s 4,611. Scott also received 710 votes in Trumbull to Cliff’s 699, for a total of 7,949 votes for Scott (57%) and 6,028 (43%) for Cliff.
Dori Wollen (R) and David Smith (D) will also continue in their respective roles as registrars of voters in Easton, with Smith receiving 2,508 votes and Wollen receiving 2,241. Both will serve another two-year term.
Easton’s local results reflect the overall regional and statewide election results for U.S. senator and the Fourth Congressional District seat, which were won by Democrats Chris Murphy and Jim Himes, respectively.
Easton voters also cast the majority of their votes for the Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who lost the national election to Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance. Harris and Walz received 2,627 or 54% of the votes in Easton, while Trump and Vance received 2,141 (44%), according to the unofficial results.
Easton voted in 2,380 to 1,620 in favor of the ballot question that would allow state lawmakers to amend the Connecticut Constitution to allow “no-excuse” absentee voting. Easton’s 60% voter approval was higher than the overall support statewide, which passed with 57% of the vote. Now that the referendum has been approved by voters, the proposed amendment will move to the General Assembly where lawmakers will establish procedures and rules for its implementation.
Total voter participation in Easton was a robust 85% due in part to the implementation of early voting for the first time in Connecticut. Turnout in Easton was 11% higher than the 74% statewide, according to the precincts reported on the secretary of the state’s website as of 1 p.m. on Nov. 6.
