Connecticut House of Representatives

Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut General Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	None
History
New session started	January 6, 2021
Leadership
Speaker	Matthew Ritter (D) since January 6, 2021
Majority Leader	Jason Rojas (D) since January 6, 2021
Minority Leader	Vincent Candelora (R) since January 6, 2021
Structure
Seats	151
Political groups	Majority   Democratic (97) Minority   Republican (54)
Length of term	2 years
Authority	Article III, Section 1, Connecticut Constitution
Salary	$28,000/year
Elections
Last election	November 3, 2020 (151 seats)
Next election	November 8, 2022 (151 seats)
Redistricting	Legislative Control
Meeting place
House of Representatives Chamber Connecticut State Capitol Hartford, Connecticut
Website
Connecticut House of Representatives

The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency containing nearly 22,600 residents. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits. The House convenes within the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.

History[]

The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the "General Corte" established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally elected magistrates (the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony (Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor). The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, adopted in 1639, replaced the committees with deputies; each town would elect three or four deputies for six-month terms. Although the magistrates and deputies sat together, they voted separately and in 1645 it was decreed that a measure had to have the approval of both groups in order to pass. The Charter of 1662 reduced the number of deputies per town to no more than two, and also changed the title of the legislature to the General Assembly. It was in 1698 that the General Assembly divided itself into its current bicameral form, with the twelve assistants (that replaced the magistrates) as the Council (which became the Senate in the 1818 constitution) and the deputies as the House of Representatives, which began electing the Speaker to preside over it. The terms of representatives were raised to two years in 1884.^[1]

Leadership of the House[]

The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House resolution. In addition to presiding over the body, the Speaker is also its chief leadership position and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the chamber.

The current Speaker is Matthew Ritter of the 1st House District the includes part of Hartford. The Majority Leader is Jason Rojas of the 9th House District which includes part of East Hartford and part of Manchester. The Minority Leader is Republican Vincent Candelora of the 86th House District that includes part of Durham, part of Guilford, North Branford, and part of Wallingford.

Position		Representative	District
	Speaker	Matthew Ritter	1
	Majority Leader	Jason Rojas	9
	Minority Leader	Vincent Candelora	86

Composition of the House of Representatives[]

97	54
Democratic	Republican

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total
	Democratic	Republican		Vacant
End of Previous Legislature: 2018-2020	80	71	151	0
Begin 2021	97	54	151	0
February 2021	97	53	150	1
May 2021	97	54	151	0
Latest voting share	64.2%	35.8%	100

List of current members[]

Current members of the Connecticut House of Representatives, as of January 6, 2021.

District	Name[2]	Party	Home city/town	First elected	Cities/towns represented
1	Matthew Ritter	Dem	Hartford	2010	Hartford (part)
2	Raghib Allie-Brennan	Dem	Bethel	2018	Bethel (part), Danbury (part), Newtown (part), Redding (part)
3	Minnie Gonzalez	Dem	Hartford	1996	Hartford (part)
4	Julio Concepcion	Dem	Hartford	2018 (special)	Hartford (part)
5	Brandon McGee	Dem	Hartford	2012	Hartford (part), Windsor (part)
6	Edwin Vargas	Dem	Hartford	2012	Hartford (part)
7	Joshua M. Hall	Dem/WFP	Hartford	2017	Hartford (part)
8	Tim Ackert	Rep	Coventry	2010	Columbia, Coventry, Tolland (part), Vernon (part)
9	Jason Rojas	Dem	East Hartford	2008	East Hartford (part), Manchester (part)
10	Henry Genga	Dem	East Hartford	2006	East Hartford (part)
11	Jeffrey Currey	Dem	East Hartford	2014	East Hartford (part), Manchester (part), South Windsor (part)
12	Geoff Luxenberg	Dem	Manchester	2018	Manchester (part)
13	Jason Edward Doucette	Dem	Manchester	2018	Glastonbury (part), Manchester (part)
14	Tom Delnicki	Rep	South Windsor	2016	South Windsor (part)
15	Bobby Gibson	Dem	Bloomfield	2018 (special)	Bloomfield, Windsor (part)
16	John Hampton	Dem	Simsbury	2012	Simsbury
17	Eleni Kavros DeGraw	Dem	Canton	2020	Avon (part), Canton
18	Jillian Gilchrest	Dem	West Hartford	2018	West Hartford (part)
19	Tammy Exum	Dem	West Hartford	2019 (special)	Avon (part), Farmington (part), West Hartford (part)
20	Kate Farrar	Dem	West Hartford	2020	West Hartford (part)
21	Mike Demicco	Dem	Farmington	2012	Farmington (part)
22	William Petit	Rep	Plainville	2016	New Britain (part), Plainville
23	Devin Carney	Rep	Old Saybrook	2014	Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Westbrook (part)
24	Emmanuel Sanchez	Dem	New Britain	2020	New Britain (part), Newington (part)
25		Dem	New Britain	2011	New Britain (part)
26	Peter Tercyak	Dem	New Britain	2003	New Britain (part)
27	Gary Turco	Dem	Newington	2018	Newington (part)
28	Amy Morrin Bello	Dem	Wethersfield	2020	Wethersfield (part)
29	Kerry Szeps Wood	Dem	Rocky Hill	2018	Newington (part), Rocky Hill, Wethersfield (part)
30	Donna Veach	Rep	Berlin	2020	Berlin (part), Southington (part)
31	Jill Barry	Dem	Glastonbury	2018	Glastonbury (part)
32	Christie Carpino	Rep	Cromwell	2010	Cromwell, Portland
33	Brandon Chafee	Dem	Middletown	2020	Middletown (part)
34	Irene Haines	Rep	East Hampton	2018	Colchester (part), East Haddam, East Hampton
35	Christine Goupil	Dem	Westbrook	2020	Clinton, Killingworth, Westbrook (part)
36	Christine Palm	Dem	Haddam	2018	Chester, Deep River, Essex, Haddam
37	Holly Cheeseman	Rep	Niantic	2016	East Lyme, Salem
38	Kathleen McCarty	Rep	Waterford	2014	Montville (part), Waterford
39	Anthony Nolan	Dem	New London	2019 (special)	New London (part)
40	Christine Conley	Dem	Groton	2016	Groton (part), Ledyard (part)
41	Joe de la Cruz	Dem	Groton	2016	Groton (part), New London (part)
42	Mike France	Rep	Ledyard	2014	Ledyard (part), Montville (part), Preston
43	Greg Howard	Rep	North Stonington	2020	North Stonington, Stonington
44	Anne Dauphinais	Rep	Killingly	2016	Killingly (part), Plainfield (part)
45	Brian Lanoue	Rep	Griswold	2018	Griswold, Lisbon (part), Plainfield (part), Sterling, Voluntown
46	Emmett Riley	Dem	Norwich	2012	Norwich (part)
47	Doug Dubitsky	Rep	Canterbury	2014	Canterbury, Chaplin, Franklin, Hampton, Lisbon (part), Lebanon (part), Norwich (part), Scotland, Sprague
48		Dem	Colchester	2020 (special)	Colchester(part), Lebanon (part), Mansfield (part), Windham (part)
49		Dem	Windham	2008	Windham (part)
50	Pat Boyd	Dem	Pomfret	2016	Brooklyn, Eastford, Pomfret, Union, Woodstock
51	Rick Hayes	Rep	Putnam	2018	Killingly (part), Putnam, Thompson
52	Kurt Vail	Rep	Stafford	2014	Somers, Stafford
53	Tammy Nuccio	Rep	Tolland	2020	Ashford, Tolland (part), Willington
54	Gregory Haddad	Dem	Mansfield	2010	Mansfield (part)
55		Rep	Marlborough	2016	Andover, Bolton, Hebron, Marlborough
56		Dem	Vernon	2016	Vernon (part)
57	Jaime Foster	Dem	Broad Brook	2020	East Windsor (part), Ellington
58		Dem	Enfield	2018	Enfield (part)
59	Carol Hall	Rep	Enfield	2016	East Windsor (part), Enfield (part)
60	Jane Garibay	Dem	Windsor Locks	2016	Windsor (part), Windsor Locks
61	Tami Zawistowski	Rep	Suffield	2014	East Granby, Suffield, Windsor (part)
62		Rep	Granby	2020	Barkhamsted, Granby, Hartland, New Hartford
63	Jay Case	Rep	Colebrook	2012	Colebrook, Goshen (part), Torrington (part), Winchester
64	Maria Horn	Dem	North Canaan	2018	Canaan, Cornwall, Goshen (part), Kent, Norfolk, North Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington (part)
65	Michelle Cook	Dem	Torrington	2008	Torrington (part)
66		Rep	Litchfield	2016	Bethlehem, Litchfield (part), Morris, Warren, Woodbury (part)
67	Bill Buckbee	Rep	New Milford	2016	New Milford (part)
68		Rep	Watertown	2017	Watertown, Woodbury (part)
69		Rep	Southbury	2020	Bridgewater, Roxbury, Southbury (part), Washington
70	Rosa Rebimbas	Rep	Naugatuck	2009	Naugatuck (part)
71	Anthony D'Amelio	Rep	Waterbury	1996	Middlebury, Waterbury (part)
72	Larry Butler	Dem	Waterbury	2006	Waterbury (part)
73	Ronald Napoli Jr.	Dem	Waterbury	2018	Waterbury (part)
74		Dem	Waterbury	2020	Waterbury (part)
75	Geraldo Reyes	Dem	Waterbury	2016	Waterbury (part)
76	John Piscopo	Rep	Thomaston	1988	Burlington, Harwinton, Litchfield (part), Thomaston
77	Cara Pavalock-D'Amato	Rep	Bristol	2014	Bristol (part)
78	Whit Betts	Rep	Bristol	2010	Bristol (part), Plymouth
79		Dem	Bristol	2016	Bristol (part)
80	Gale Mastrofrancesco	Rep	Wolcott	2018	Wolcott, Southington (part)
81		Rep	Southington	2016	Southington (part)
82		Dem	Meriden	2020	Meriden (part), Middlefield
83	Catherine Abercrombie	Dem	Meriden	2005	Berlin (part), Meriden (part)
84	Hilda Santiago	Dem	Meriden	2012	Meriden (part)
85	Mary Mushinsky	Dem	Wallingford	1980	Wallingford (part)
86	Vincent Candelora	Rep	North Branford	2006	Durham (part), Guilford (part), North Branford, Wallingford (part)
87	Dave Yaccarino	Rep	North Haven	2010	North Haven
88	Josh Elliott	Dem	Hamden	2017	Hamden (part)
89	Lezlye Zupkus	Rep	Prospect	2012	Bethany, Cheshire (part), Prospect
90	Craig C. Fishbein	Rep	Wallingford	2016	Cheshire (part), Wallingford (part)
91		Dem	Hamden	2012	Hamden (part)
92		Dem	New Haven	1984	New Haven (part)
93	Toni Walker	Dem	New Haven	2001	New Haven (part)
94	Robyn Porter	Dem	New Haven	2014	Hamden (part), New Haven (part)
95	Juan Candelaria	Dem	New Haven	2002	New Haven (part)
96	Roland Lemar	Dem	New Haven	2010	East Haven (part), New Haven (part)
97	Alphonse Paolillo	Dem	New Haven	2018	New Haven (part)
98	Sean Scanlon	Dem	Guilford	2014	Branford (part), Guilford (part)
99		Rep	East Haven	2019 (special)	East Haven (part)
100	Quentin Phipps	Dem	Middletown	2018	Middletown (part)
101	John-Michael Parker	Dem	Madison	2020	Durham (part), Madison
102	Robin Comey	Dem	Branford	2018	Branford (part)
103	Liz Linehan	Dem	Cheshire	2016	Cheshire (part), Southington (part), Wallingford (part)
104	Kara Rochelle	Dem	Ansonia	2018	Ansonia, Derby (part)
105	Nicole Klarides-Ditria	Rep	Seymour	2018	Beacon Falls, Derby (part), Seymour
106	Mitch Bolinsky	Rep	Newtown	2012	Newtown (part)
107	Stephen Harding	Rep	Brookfield	2015	Bethel (part), Brookfield, Danbury (part)
108	Patrick Callahan	Rep	New Fairfield	2020	Danbury (part), New Fairfield (part), New Milford (part), Sherman
109	David Arconti	Dem	Danbury	2012	Danbury (part)
110	Bob Godfrey	Dem	Danbury	1988	Danbury (part)
111	Aimee Berger-Girvalo	Dem	Ridgefield	2020	Ridgefield (part)
112		Rep	Monroe	2021 (special)	Monroe, Newtown (part)
113	Jason Perillo	Rep	Shelton	2007	Shelton (part)
114	Mary Welander	Dem	Derby	2020	Derby (part), Orange (part), Woodbridge (part)
115	Dorinda Keenan Borer	Dem	West Haven	2017 (special)	West Haven (part)
116		Dem	West Haven	2018	New Haven (part), West Haven (part)
117	Charles Ferraro	Rep	West Haven	2014	Milford (part), Orange (part), West Haven (part)
118		Dem	Milford	2020	Milford (part)
119		Rep	Milford	2018	Orange (part), Milford (part)
120		Dem	Stratford	2018 (special)	Stratford (part)
121		Dem	Stratford	2016	Stratford (part)
122	Ben McGorty	Rep	Shelton	2014	Shelton (part), Stratford (part), Trumbull (part)
123	David Rutigliano	Rep	Trumbull	2012	Trumbull (part)
124	Andre Baker	Dem	Bridgeport	2014	Bridgeport (part)
125	Tom O'Dea	Rep	New Canaan	2012	New Canaan (part), Wilton (part)
126	Charlie Stallworth	Dem	Bridgeport	2011	Bridgeport (part)
127		Dem	Bridgeport	2004	Bridgeport (part)
128	Christopher Rosario	Dem	Bridgeport	2014	Bridgeport (part)
129	Steven Stafstrom	Dem	Bridgeport	2015	Bridgeport (part)
130	Antonio Felipe	Dem	Bridgeport	2019 (special)	Bridgeport (part)
131	David Labriola	Rep	Naugatuck	2002	Naugatuck (part), Oxford, Southbury (part)
132	Jennifer Leeper	Dem	Fairfield	2020	Fairfield (part)
133	Cristin McCarthy Vahey	Dem	Fairfield	2014	Fairfield (part)
134	Laura Devlin	Rep	Fairfield	2014	Fairfield (part), Trumbull (part)
135	Anne Meiman Hughes	Dem	Redding	2018	Easton, Redding (part), Weston
136		Dem	Westport	2010	Westport (part)
137	Chris Perone	Dem	Norwalk	2004	Norwalk (part)
138		Dem	Danbury	2018	Danbury (part), New Fairfield (part), Ridgefield (part)
139		Dem	Montville	1992	Bozrah, Montville (part), Norwich (part)
140	Travis Simms	Dem	Norwalk	2018	Norwalk (part)
141	Terrie Wood	Rep	Darien	2008	Darien (part), Norwalk (part)
142	Lucy Dathan	Dem	Norwalk	2018	New Canaan (part), Norwalk (part)
143	Stephanie Thomas	Dem	Wilton	2020	Norwalk (part), Westport (part), Wilton (part)
144	Caroline Simmons	Dem	Stamford	2014	Stamford (part)
145	Corey Paris	Dem	Stamford	2021 (special)	Stamford (part)
146	David Michel	Dem	Stamford	2018	Stamford (part)
147	Matt Blumenthal	Dem	Stamford	2018	Darien (part), Stamford (part)
148	Daniel J. Fox	Dem	Stamford	2011	Stamford (part)
149	Kimberly Fiorello	Rep	Greenwich	2020	Greenwich (part), Stamford (part)
150		Dem	Greenwich	2018	Greenwich (part)
151	Harry Arora	Rep	Greenwich	2020 (special)	Greenwich (part)

Past composition of the House of Representatives[]

Notable former House members[]

1700s[]

• Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut Colony, Governor of Connecticut
• Roger Sherman, First Mayor of New Haven, Constitutional Signatory, United States Congressman, United States Senator
• Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Aide-de-camp to General Washington, Congressman, US Senator, 20th Governor of Connecticut
• Jeremiah Wadsworth, Congressman, Constitutional Convention Member
• John Davenport (Connecticut politician), Continental Army Officer, Congressman

1800s[]

• Gideon Tomlinson, Congressman, US Senator, 25th Governor of Connecticut
• Noah Webster, Dictionary author and educator
• Henry W. Edwards, Congressman, US Senator, 27th and 29th Governor of Connecticut
• Samuel A. Foot, Congressman, US Senator, 28th Governor of Connecticut
• Isaac Toucey, Congressman, US Senator, United States Attorney General, Secretary of the Navy, 33rd Governor of Connecticut
• William W. Eaton, Congressman and US Senator
• Marcus H. Holcomb, Connecticut Attorney General, 66th Governor of Connecticut
• Henry C. Deming, Congressman, Mayor of Hartford, Commander of the 12th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
• John T. Wait, Congressman
• William E. Simonds, Congressman, Patent Commissioner, Medal of Honor recipient
• Augustus Brandegee Congressman, Mayor of New London
• John Q. Tilson, Congressman
• E. Stevens Henry, Connecticut State Treasurer, Congressman
• P.T. Barnum, showman, politician, and businessman known for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
• Charles Phelps, lawyer, state legislator, Connecticut Secretary of State, and first Attorney General of Connecticut

1900s[]

• Marcus H. Holcomb, Attorney General of Connecticut, 66th Governor of Connecticut
• Everett J. Lake, 67th Governor of Connecticut
• Raymond E. Baldwin, Congressman, United States Senator, 72nd and 74th Governor of Connecticut, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Court of Errors, Chair of the 1965 Constitutional Convention
• Emily Sophie Brown, one of the first women to be elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives
• Abraham A. Ribicoff, 80th Governor of Connecticut, United States Senator, United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
• John N. Dempsey, 81st Governor of Connecticut
• William R. Ratchford, Congressman
• Stewart McKinney (politician), Congressman
• Sam Gejdenson, Congressman
• Ronald A. Sarasin, Congressman
• Ella T. Grasso, 83rd Governor of Connecticut
• Barbara B. Kennelly, Congresswoman
• William O'Neill, 84th Governor of Connecticut
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Congressman, US Senator, 85th Governor of Connecticut
• Sam Gejdenson, Congressman
• John G. Rowland, 86th Governor of Connecticut
• Gary Franks, Congressman
• Christopher Shays, Congressman

2000s[]

• Rob Simmons, Congressman
• Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut
• Joe Courtney, Congressman
• Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General and US Senator
• Chris Murphy, Congressman and US Senator
• Elizabeth Esty, Congresswoman
• William Tong, Connecticut Attorney General

See also[]

• Connecticut State Capitol
• Connecticut General Assembly
• Connecticut Senate
• List of members of the Connecticut General Assembly from Norwalk

References[]

External links[]

• Connecticut House of Representatives
• District search by address