Newtown voters faced two primaries, one for Democratic voters and one for Republican voters.

Newtown numbers showed incumbent Ned Lamont beat out challenger Josh Elliott, 980 (65.8%) to 508 (34.1%) for Democratic candidate for governor.

For Republicans, Chris Shea beat out Jonathan De Barros, 567 (80.3%) to 139 (19.6%), for Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives 5th District.

There were 2,194 votes cast in Newtown, a 12% turnout. The Connecticut Secretary of State website shows that in 2025, Newtown had 5,163 active Republican voters, 5,690 active Democratic voters, 353 registered to minor parties, and 7,405 unaffiliated voters. Only Republicans were able to vote in the Republican primary and only Democrats were able to vote in the Democratic primary.

According to partner CT Mirror, overall, Lamont won the primary 125,790 (67.9%) to 59,592 (32.2%).

Overall, Shea defeated De Barros, 9,770 (80.7%) to 2,346 (19.4%).

Lamont will go on to face Republican challenger Ryan Fazio on Election Day, November 3.

Shea will go on to face Democratic incumbent Jahana Hayes for the 5th District.

CT Mirror reported that in winning the first primary challenge to a Connecticut governor in 48 years, Lamont prevailed in a volatile season marked by the losses of establishment candidates in high-profile Democratic primaries across the US, though most involved open races. No governor has lost a primary in 2026.

Elliott appeared before his supporters at a brew pub in his hometown of Hamden around 8:50 pm to concede and call for Democrats to unite behind Lamont in November.

“The worst thing that people can do is check out,” Elliott said. “We need more people to be engaged.”

Lamont praised Elliott.

“I look forward to carrying this battle into the fall with each and every one of you, Democrats in Connecticut, what we stand for,” Lamont told Democrats at his victory party in Hartford. “I want to give a shout out to Josh Elliott. He ran a feisty campaign, raised very important issues.”

Throughout the campaign, both Elliott and Lamont made clear their opposition to Trump’s hostility to undocumented immigrants, his attack on Iran, and his orders for tariffs that rose and fell with his mood. But Lamont said governors are chief executives who also are judged on performance.

“We’re fighting Trump where we’ve got to fight him,” Lamont said before the polls closed. “But more importantly, or just as importantly, we got to manage the state every day and make sure it’s a place affordable for people, so they can get by. That takes a certain pragmatism.”

Lamont, 72, who narrowly won an open race in 2018 and was convincingly reelected in 2022, begins his general election campaign on favorable terms against Republican Ryan Fazio, a 36-year-old state senator from Greenwich trying to lead a struggling GOP back into contention.

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Editor Jim Taylor can be reached at jim@thebee.com.

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