1920 Connecticut Senate election

Not to be confused with 1920 United States Senate elections § Connecticut.

1920 Connecticut Senate election

November 3, 1920
All 35 seats in the Connecticut State Senate 18 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader George W. Klett Charles C. Hemenway Party Republican Democratic Leader's seat District 6 District 2 (lost) Last election 24 11 Seats won 34 1 Seat change 10 10 Popular vote 227,033 123,857 Percentage 62.9% 34.3%
President pro tempore of the Senate before election William H. Heald Republican Elected President pro tempore of the Senate William H. Hall Republican

The Connecticut Senate election, 1920 was held on November 2, 1920 to elect all 35 Senators to the Connecticut State Senate for the term which began in January 1921 and ended in January 1923. It occurred on the same date as other federal and state elections, including the state's gubernatorial election.

The election saw 34 Republicans win election or re-election, and 1 Democrat win election. 10 seats flipped from Democratic to Republican.

Results

Results of the 1920 Connecticut Senate election. Party shading denotes winner of Senate seat.

District	Constituency	Incumbent Senator	Republican candidate (percent won)	Democratic candidate (percent won)
1	Hartford Wards 8, 9, 10	Edward D. Broder (D)	Clarence W. Seymour 59.3%	Josephine Maxim1 35.6%
2	Hartford Wards 3, 4, 5, 6	Charles C. Hemenway (D)	F. Spencer Goodwin 54.2%	Saul Berman 39.7%
3	Hartford Wards 1, 2, 7	Herman P. Koppleman (D)	Louis B. Rosenfeld 48.0%	Thomas F. Dignam 40.7%
4	East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Marlborough, Newington, South Windsor, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield	Arthur E. Bowers (R)	Arthur E. Bowers 65.2%	Edward G. Dolan 34.8%
5	Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, Farmington, Plainville, Southington, West Hartford	Richard H. Deming (R)	John H. Trumbull 68.6%	Charles H. Curtis 31.4%
6	New Britain	George W. Klett (R)	Edward F. Hall 67.9%	Abraham M. Gorbach 32.1%
7	Bloomfield, Canton, East Granby, East Windsor, Enfield, Granby, Hartland, Simsbury, Suffield, Windsor, Windsor Locks	Albert H. House (R)	Richard B. Eno 64.5%	Fred H. Thrall 35.5%
8	New Haven Wards 8, 9, 12, and 14	G. Herbert Bishop (D)	Charles M. Bakewell 59.7%	Patrick F. O'Meara 35.4%
9	New Haven Wards 1, 2, 10, and 13	Harry A. Leonard (R)	James H. MacDonald 72.7%	Fred D. Faulkner 24.3%
10	New Haven Wards 3, 4, and 5	Dennis J. Bailey (D)	Hugh McCahey 49.2%	Daniel L. Bailey 42.4%
11	New Haven Wards 6, 7, 11, and 15	Dennis M. Clyne (D)	Lorenzo C. Furcolo 47.0%	Dennis M. Clyne 38.2%
12	Branford, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, North Branford, North Haven, Wallingford	Arthur W. Marsden (R)	John W. Sanford 69.3%	J.P. Craig 22.9%
13	Meriden	Eugene P. Golden (R)	Eugene P. Golden 62.5%	Harold C. Hall 35.1%
14	Bethany, Cheshire, Milford, Naugatuck, Orange2, Prospect, Woodbridge, Wolcott	Watson R. Woodruff (R)	Charles R. Treat 69.0%	Arthur H. Doolittle 27.1%
15	Waterbury Wards 1, 2, 3, and 6	Charles A. Templeton (R)	Lancaster P. Clark 58.2%	Alfred Lachance 38.1%
16	Waterbury Wards 4 and 5	John Hurley (D)	Arnold Rasmussen 35.3%	Daniel F. Pickett 62.1%
17	Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Middlebury, Oxford, Seymour, Southbury	Raymond T. French (D)	Frederick M. Drew 56.0%	John W. Schumacher 42.0%
18	Groton, New London	William C. Fox (D)	Cornelius C. Costello 62.5%	William C. Fox 35.3%
19	Ledyard, Norwich, Preston	William B. Wilcox (D)	Allyn L. Brown 58.7%	Charles S. Avery 38.9%
20	Bozrah, Colchester, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Lyme, Lebanon, Lisbon, Montville, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford	Elisha Waterman (R)	James Graham 68.2%	John S. Sullivan 31.8%
21	Bridgeport Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5	Frederic A. Bartlett (R)	Earle E. Garlick 61.9%	John F. Mograin 30.3%
22	Bridgeport Voting Districts 6, 7, 8, and 11	Alexander L. DeLaney (R)	Alexander L. DeLaney 61.8%	Lawrence T. Gallagher 33.6%
23	Bridgeport Voting Districts 9, 10, and 12	George B. Clark (D)	Howard S. Challenger 62.3%	George B. Clark 32.8%
24	Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, Redding, Ridgefield, Sherman	Harvey P. Bissell (R)	Edward H. Bailey 65.5%	George Taylor 34.5%
25	Easton, Fairfield, Shelton, Monroe, Newtown, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport	John B. Dillon (R)	Elmore S. Banks 70.9%	John W. Treadwell 29.1%
26	Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Norwalk	Charles E. Williamson (R)	Nehemiah Candee 68.5%	Edward J. Quinian 31.5%
27	Greenwich, Stamford	James R. Mead (R)	Matthew H. Kenealy 71.8%	William P. Mulville 28.2%
28	Ashford, Eastford, Killingly, Putnam, Thompson, Woodstock	Archibald Macdonald (R)	Archibald Macdonald 65.1%	John O. Fox 34.8%
29	Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Hampton, Plainfield, Pomfret, Scotland, Sterling, Windham	Sessions L. Adams (R)	Charles H. Blake 58.9%	Charles H. Williams 41.0%
30	Goshen, Harwinton, Litchfield, New Hartford, Torrington	John N. Brooks (R)	John N. Brooks 68.0%	William P. Driscoll 32.0%
31	Barkhamsted, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Kent, Norfolk, North Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, Winchester	Dwight B. Tiffany (R)	Malcolm D. Rudd 65.5%	Edward D. Cartwright 34.4%
32	Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Morris, New Milford, Plymouth, Roxbury, Thomaston, Warren, Washington, Watertown, Woodbury	Clifford E. Hough (R)	Clarence B. Emery 65.8%	Charles T. Davis 34.2%
33	Cromwell, Middlefield, Middletown	George F. Chapin (R)	Dale D. Butler 60.1%	Maurice E. Miner 39.9%
34	Chester, Clinton, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Killingworth, Old Saybrook, Portland, Saybrook3, Westbrook	Edward W. Hazen (R)	Mathewson W. Potter 70.3%	Horace E. Kelsey 29.7%
35	Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, Ellington, Hebron, Mansfield, Somers, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon, Willington	William H. Heald (R)	William H. Hall 69.7%	William S. Ellis 30.3%

Notes

¹ Wife of Hiram Percy Maxim.
² Includes West Haven, in 1920 it was a borough of Orange
³ Today known as Deep River.