Connecticut Working Families Party

Connecticut Working Families Party
Headquarters30 Arbor Street,
Hartford, CT 06106
Membership (2022)304[1]
Ideology
Political position
State House
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State Senate
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Statewide Executive Offices
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U.S. House of Representatives
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U.S. Senate
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Hartford City Council[7][8]
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Website
workingfamilies.org/connecticut/

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.

  1. ^ Winger, Richard. "New Connecticut Registration Data". Ballot Access News. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Progressives contemplate post-Cuomo politics". Spectrum News. 11 August 2021. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  4. ^ Bredderman, Will (November 5, 2016). "Bernie Sanders Calls the Working Families Party 'the Closest Thing' to Socialism". The Observer. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  5. ^ Lewis, Rebecca C. (June 21, 2022). "The Working Families Party is looking to oust seven Assembly Democratic incumbents". Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ [1] Archived November 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine City of Hartford – Court of Common Council
  8. ^ [2] Archived September 22, 2018, at the Wayback Machine City of Hartford – Court of Common Council – Contact
  9. ^ Winger, Richard. "November 2020 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  10. ^ Semuels, Alana (August 15, 2016). "Can the Working Families Party Keep Winning in Connecticut?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 March 2017.