How many Democrats and Republicans represent Connecticut in the House of Representatives in 2025?
Executive summary
Connecticut’s 151-member state House of Representatives in the 2025 session is composed of 101 Democrats and 50 Republicans, a Democratic majority that has controlled the chamber for years [1]. That partisan split was reflected when the 151 members were sworn in for the January 2025 session and is consistent with publicly available state and civic reporting of the 2025–2026 House [2] [3].
1. The arithmetic of control: 101 Democrats, 50 Republicans — what the official roll shows
The official January 2025 membership and officers listing published by the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s office records the House composition as 101 Democrats and 50 Republicans, totaling 151 state representatives, and that document also notes salary and allowances for members [1]. That numerical breakdown is the primary source for who holds seats in the chamber during the 2025 legislative session and is corroborated by civic trackers that marked 151 members sworn in for the session [2].
2. Why 151 members matters: districting and the state constitution
Connecticut’s House size — 151 members — is fixed within the constitutional band for the chamber and informs how a majority is counted; each of those 151 districts elected a single representative in the 2024 cycle whose term began in 2025 [4] [2]. Mapping and party-designation resources from the state (the 2025–2026 house party PDF and legislative maps) present the district-level party breakdown that underpins the 101–50 split [3].
3. Historical and political context: a long-running Democratic advantage
The Democratic majority in the Connecticut House is not an accident of a single election; party-control timelines and reporting show extended Democratic control of the state government through multiple cycles, a trend tracked by Ballotpedia and other state political analyses through 2025 [5] [4]. Those sources frame the 2025 numerical majority as part of a longer pattern of Democratic trifecta years in Connecticut, though seat counts naturally fluctuate with each biennial election [5].
4. How reliable are these counts and where to verify them
The 101–50 split comes from the state’s own January 2025 roll and is the authoritative count for the session [1]; independent sites such as the CT government portal’s maps and civic trackers that documented the swearing-in corroborate the totals [3] [2]. For anyone seeking live verification, the Secretary of the State’s site and the Connecticut General Assembly’s membership pages are the primary official sources cited in public reporting [6] [1].
5. Caveats, alternative framings and what reporting does not cover
Reporting and the state documents establish party registration in the chamber but do not, by themselves, capture intra-party ideological splits, voting coalitions, or absentee or temporary vacancies that can affect working majorities during a session; such dynamics require roll-call analysis and contemporaneous reporting not supplied in the documents cited here [1] [2]. Additionally, national databases that track congressional (U.S. House) representation are separate from state-house counts and can be a source of confusion; the figures above refer specifically to the Connecticut state House of Representatives in the 2025 session, not Connecticut’s U.S. House delegation [2] [7].
6. The bottom line
The documented and officially published composition for the Connecticut House of Representatives in the January 2025 legislative session is 101 Democrats and 50 Republicans out of 151 members, a simple majority that gives Democratic leadership control of the chamber for that session as reflected in the Secretary of the State’s membership listing and corroborated by civic snapshots of the 2025 swearing-in [1] [2].