Electoral History
- Primary
| Republican United States Senatorial Primary Election in Connecticut, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Republican | Linda McMahon | 60,479 | 49.44% | |
| Republican | Rob Simmons* | 34,011 | 27.80% | |
| Republican | Peter Schiff** | 27,831 | 22.75% | |
| Totals | 122,321 | 100% | ||
| United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Richard Blumenthal | 636,040 | 55.16% | -11.20% | |
| Republican | Linda E. McMahon | 498,341 | 43.22% | +11.08% | |
| Independent | Warren B. Mosler | 11,275 | 0.98% | N/A | |
| Connecticut for Lieberman | Dr. John Mertens | 6,735 | 0.58% | N/A | |
| Write-in | Write-in candidates (8) | 724 | 0.06% | N/A | |
| Majority | 137,755 | 11.95% | |||
| Total votes | 1,153,115 | 100% | |||
| Democratic hold | |||||
| Republican United States Senatorial Primary Election in Connecticut, 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Republican | Linda McMahon | 83,413 | 72.7% | |
| Republican | Chris Shays | 31,305 | 27.3% | |
| Totals | 114,718 | 100% | ||
| United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2012 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Chris Murphy | 785,075 | 55.0% | ||
| Republican | Linda McMahon | 615,273 | 43.3% | ||
| Libertarian | Paul Passarelli | 24,658 | 1.7% | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
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