1932 United States Senate election in Connecticut

1932 United States Senate election in Connecticut

← 1926 November 8, 1932 1938 →
 
Nominee Augustine Lonergan Hiram Bingham III
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 282,327 278,061
Percentage 47.50% 46.78%

Lonergan:      50–60%      60-70%
Bingham:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%
Tie:      50%

U.S. senator before election

Hiram Bingham III
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Augustine Lonergan
Democratic

The 1932 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 8, 1932. Incumbent Senator Hiram Bingham III ran for a second full term in office but was defeated by Democratic U.S. Representative Augustine Lonergan. This was the first time since 1879 that Democrats won this Senate seat, and the first since 1881 that they won either seat.

This was despite the fact that Connecticut was one of only six states President Herbert Hoover carried in his landslide defeat by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lonergan won the seat as one of eleven gains made by the Democrats in 1932.