9th District Primary Results – Completed with 6 of 6 Districts Reporting
Commentary – 10:45PM – It appears based on preliminary SoTS data that the East Hartford Democrats had a 21% turnout rate and the Republicans a 17% turnout rate.
Commentary – 9:27PM – The voter turnout is looking as low as expected. Worth noting is that each of the Democratic contenders received more votes individually than all three Republican contenders combined. If the Republicans want to have any hope of winning the general they need to figure out how to get their voters to show up at the polls. I’m awaiting the SoTS data which will provide turnout data for each town.
Update – 09:22PM – All 6 precincts are in for the 9th. It’s Rojas with 54% and Thompson with 51%. Congratulation to both candidates.
| State House – District 9 – GOP Primary | |
| 6 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 100% |
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| State House – District 9 – Dem Primary | |
| 6 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 100% |
| Name | Party | Votes | Vote % | |
| Rojas, Jason | Dem | 647 | 54% | |
| Hachey, Joseph | Dem | 554 | 46% |
Update – 09:15PM – With 3 districts reporting the margin has narrowed significantly for Rojas from 82% in favor to 53% in favor. Thompson has also lost a bit of his lead to Brenner and Crockett. The SOTS results data seems to be funky so I won’t share that at this time.
| State House – District 9 – GOP Primary | |
| 3 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 50% |
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| State House – District 9 – Dem Primary | |
| 3 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 50% |
| Name | Party | Votes | Vote % | |
| Rojas, Jason | Dem | 470 | 53% | |
| Hachey, Joseph | Dem | 421 | 47% |
Update – 08:45PM – The 9th District primary results are trickling in. So far it’s Rojas Vs. Thompson for the general.
From the Courant:
| State House – District 9 – GOP Primary | |
| 1 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 17% |
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| State House – District 9 – Dem Primary | |
| 1 of 6 Precincts Reporting – 17% |
| Name | Party | Votes | Vote % | |
| Rojas, Jason | Dem | 356 | 82% | |
| Hachey, Joseph | Dem | 78 | 18% |
9th Assembly District Democratic Convention
Last Tuesday was the Democratic Convention for the 9th Assembly district candidate. It’s about time I posted the video up here. As you probably already know East Hartford’s Jason Rojas, a current councilman, received the party nod to the displeasure of his opponent Manchester’s Joseph Hachey.
As you’ll see in Hachey’s speech in the last video he vowed to force a primary.
I’m disappointed to hear that Rojas and Hachey had a debate not too long ago that I didn’t know about. I would liked to have heard it.
Chris Stone started off the night with a short speech to mark the end of his career as the 9th District incumbent.
Stone Speech
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Rojas Nomination
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Hachey Nomination
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Roll Call Vote
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Rojas Speech
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Hachey Speech
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9th goes to Thompson, 11th Unrepresented
The 9th House District Republican delegates met at 8PM tonight for candidate selections. As expected there were three candidates, Cliff Thompson, Michael Crockett, and Dennis Brenner, nominated.
Video will follow but Thompson won with an easy majority. Delegates attending reported hearing Crockett hint at a primary.
As it stands Thompson will be facing either Jason Rojas, an East Hartford Councilman, or Joseph Hachey who is a previous Town Director and current resident of Manchester. The 9th district Democrats meet Tuesday at 7PM at the Glastonbury headquarters located at 2341 Main Street (which is oddly next door to the Republican headquarters at 2333 Main Street).
The 11th house district Republican delegates also met tonight at 8PM. I have no video of this event, since it was over before I got there from the 9th District convention, which is just as well because no candidate was selected to face the expected Democratic nominee Tim Larson.
Also, the Republican 3rd Senate District delegates met Tuesday night for candidate nominations to face incumbent Gary Lebeau but none were nominated. A vacancy committee is actively seeking candidates.
