Scotland voters overwhelming back GOP candidates
SCOTLAND - Scotland voters forged a red path at the polls on Election Day.
Voters overwhelmingly selected GOP candidates on national, state and local levels, including two hometown Republicans.
Chris Reddy, a Republican from Scotland, challenged incumbent Democratic State Senator Mae Flexer for the 29th district seat in a three-way race that included Green Party challenger Alice Liebowitz. Reddy earned 602 votes from his neighbors, while Flexer took 292 as the Democratic candidate and picked up another 11 from her cross-endorsement from the Working Families party and 6 from the Independent Party line. Liebowitz received 20 votes in Scotland. The 29th district includes the towns of Brooklyn, Canterbury, Killingly, Mansfield, Scotland, Putnam, Thompson and Windham, where both Flexer and Liebowitz live.
Republican incumbent State Representative Doug Dubitsky from the 47th House District also fared well in Scotland, with 623 votes, while the Democratic challenger Aaron Spruance received 294 votes. Dubitsky, an attorney from Chaplin, will now be returned to the state House of Representatives to serve a sixth term. The 47th district also includes the towns of Brooklyn, Canterbury, Lisbon, Norwich, Plainfield, and Sprague.
A vacant seat for the Judge of Probate for the 28th district was sought by Scotland resident Douglas Stearns, a Republican, and Colchester resident George Baker, the Democrat. Stearns won Scotland with 623 votes to Baker's 283.
For the race for the US House of Representatives between Democratic incumbent Joe Courtney and Republican challenger Mike France, Scotland voters chose France with a 510 votes. Courtney received 418 votes, while write - in candidates Kenneth Kusmierski Jr., of the Green Party, and Jeffrey Russell, an Independent, each received zero votes.
For the US Senate, Scotland voters chose Republican challenger Matthew Corey with 530 votes. However, soon after the polls closed on Tuesday, Democratic incumbent Chris Murphy was announced the winner. Scotland gave him 361 votes as the Democratic candidate, and another 24 votes as the Working Families candidate. Green Party candidate Justin Paglino received 7 votes from local voters, and the Cheaper Gas and Groceries Party's candidate received 9, while write-in candidate John Flynn received 0.
For president, Scotland voters backed Donald J. Trump with 558 votes, while Kamala Harris took 382 votes. The Green Party's Jill Stein got 6 votes, Libertarian Chase Oliver received 5, and 4 votes were given to petitioning candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. even though he withdrew from the presidential race after the ballots had gone to print.
On the question on the ballot as to whether the state's constitution should be amended to permit the General Assembly to allow all voters to vote by absentee ballot in the future, the Scotland results were 449 in favor to 328 against.
