Connecticut Working Families Party
Connecticut Working Families Party | |
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| Headquarters | 30 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106 |
| Membership (2022) | 304[1] |
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| State House | 0 / 151 |
| State Senate | 0 / 36 |
| Statewide Executive Offices | 0 / 6 |
| U.S. House of Representatives | 0 / 5 |
| U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
| Hartford City Council[7][8] | 2 / 9 |
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The Connecticut Working Families Party is a political party in the U.S. state of Connecticut with approximately 300 members.[9] It is an affiliate of the national Working Families Party. The party's support has been strongest in Hartford and Bridgeport and has been credited with helping ensure the election of Democrat Dannel Malloy in the 2010 gubernatorial election.[10] The party primarily endorses like-minded Democrats but has run candidates against Democrats on the Working Families Party ballot line.
History
The Connecticut Working Families Party was formed in 2002, by organizations that included Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Communications Workers of America, and United Food and Commercial Workers.[11]
In 2007, Wildaliz Bermudez and Larry Deutsch were elected to the city council in Hartford, Connecticut.[12] The number of votes Dannel Malloy received on the Working Families' ballot line was greater than his margin of victory in the 2010 gubernatorial election.[13]
In a February 2015 special election, Ed Gomes was elected to the Connecticut State Senate using the WFP as his only ballot line, becoming the first Connecticut WFP member to do so.[14][13]
In 2017, Joshua M. Hall, running in an April 2017 special election for the Connecticut House of Representatives, became the second candidate in the nation to win a state legislative office running solely as a nominee for the Working Families Party.[15][16]
Footnotes
References
- ^ Winger, Richard. "New Connecticut Registration Data". Ballot Access News. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Meet the Working Families Party, Whose Ballot Line is in Play in New York". Prospect.org. 2014-11-04. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
- ^ "Progressives contemplate post-Cuomo politics". Spectrum News. 11 August 2021. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
- ^ Bredderman, Will (November 5, 2016). "Bernie Sanders Calls the Working Families Party 'the Closest Thing' to Socialism". The Observer. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ Lewis, Rebecca C. (June 21, 2022). "The Working Families Party is looking to oust seven Assembly Democratic incumbents". Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Working Families Party, Jumaane Williams endorse Jamaal Bowman's challenge to Rep. Eliot Engel". New York Daily News. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
The left-wing Working Families Party and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are endorsing the political novice in his bid to rep parts of the Bronx and Westchester.
- ^ [1] Archived November 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine City of Hartford – Court of Common Council
- ^ [2] Archived September 22, 2018, at the Wayback Machine City of Hartford – Court of Common Council – Contact
- ^ Winger, Richard. "November 2020 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ^ Semuels, Alana (August 15, 2016). "Can the Working Families Party Keep Winning in Connecticut?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ Sekou 2020, p. 108.
- ^ Sekou 2020, p. 110.
- ^ a b Sekou 2020, p. 111.
- ^ Lockhart, Brian; Keila Torres Ocasio (February 28, 2015). "Working Families Party claims big victory". Connecticut Post. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ "Working Families wins in Hartford, GOP in Watertown - The CT MirrorThe CT Mirror". ctmirror.org. April 26, 2017. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- ^ Sekou 2020, p. 113.
Works cited
- Sekou, Bilal (2020). Beyond Donkeys and Elephants: Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics. University Press of Kansas. doi:10.2307/j.ctv15tt76n. ISBN 978-0-7006-2929-9.
