Title 9 — Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-164. Regular and special municipal elections. (a)(1)(A) On and after January 1, 2022, and notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, there shall be held in each municipality, biennially, a municipal election on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November of the odd-…

Sec. 9-164a. Transitional terms of office. Section 9-164a is repealed, effective January 1, 2022. (1969, P.A. 570, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 495.)

Sec. 9-164b. Deferred terms. As to any board or commission of a municipality with a rotating membership, some of the members of which, prior to any change in a municipal election date for such municipality under section 9-164, were elected for terms beginning approximately one ye…

Sec. 9-164c. Change of municipal election date. On and after January 1, 2022, (1) any municipality may change the date of its municipal election in accordance with the provisions of section 9-164, (2) in any municipality that changes from the November municipal election date spec…

Sec. 9-164d. Notification to secretary. The clerk of a municipality shall forthwith notify the Secretary of the State in writing of any change in the date of the municipal election of such municipality or in terms of elected officials thereof, the date such action was taken, the …

Sec. 9-164e. Proposed action to be submitted to municipal attorney. Before any action is taken under sections 9-164b to 9-164f, inclusive, 9-187 and 9-187a, such proposed action shall be submitted by the legislative body to the municipal attorney of the municipality taking such a…

Sec. 9-164f. Election of registrars unaffected. Nothing in sections 9-164b to 9-164e, inclusive, 9-187 and 9-187a, shall affect the election of registrars of voters. (1969, P.A. 570, S. 9; P.A. 74-109, S. 2, 11; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 120.) History: P.A. 74-109 deleted just…

Secs. 9-165 to 9-167. Biennial town elections: Change to from annual elections, unexpired terms; term and method of rotation of board members. Sections 9-165 to 9-167, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 497–499; 1953, S. 647d–649d; 1959, P.A. 630, S. 3; P.A. 76-173, S. 12.)

Sec. 9-167a. Minority representation. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the maximum number of members of any board, commission, legislative body, committee or similar body of the state or any political subdivision thereof, whether elective or appoin…

Sec. 9-168. Place of holding elections. In any town not divided into voting districts, the place of holding elections may be determined by the legislative body of such town. In towns divided into voting districts the place of holding elections shall be determined as provided in s…

Sec. 9-168a. Polling places for voting districts whose lines differ from the district lines as constituted in a municipal election year and for voting districts with less than one thousand five hundred electors who vote for officers that no other electors of town vote for. Combin…

Sec. 9-168b. Designation of polling places in adjacent voting districts. When in the written opinion of the registrars of any municipality, the lack of an existing convenient or suitable polling place within the lines of a particular voting district necessitates the designation o…

Sec. 9-168c. Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters. Section 9-168c is repealed. (P.A. 75-280; P.A. 78-117, S. 2.)

Sec. 9-168d. Accessibility of polling places to voters with physical disabilities. Certification. Waiver of requirements. (a) On or before July 1, 1980, each polling place shall be made accessible to and usable by persons with physical disabilities by complying with the following…

Sec. 9-168e. Parking spaces at polling places for handicapped and infirm elderly persons. If space is available at a polling place, the registrars of voters or legislative body of the town in which the polling place is located shall designate two or more parking spaces for motor …

Sec. 9-169. Voting districts. The legislative body of any town, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough may divide and, from time to time, redivide such municipality into voting districts. The registrars of voters of any municipality taking such action shall p…

Sec. 9-169a. Split voting districts. For the purposes of this section and section 9-169, “split voting district” means a voting district which was divided by statute or otherwise divided by law pursuant to article 26 of the amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut or an orde…

Sec. 9-169b. Effective date of changes in voting districts. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 9-168b and 9-169, any change or changes in voting districts made in any municipality in accordance with the provisions of section 9-169, to conform, or facilitate conforming, to…

Sec. 9-169c. At-large election of members of legislative bodies of certain towns. Notwithstanding the provisions of any charter or special act to the contrary, in any town in which members of its legislative body are elected on the basis of assembly districts and where as a resul…

Sec. 9-169d. Voting districts crossing legislative district lines, permitted for municipal elections. The legislative body of any town, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough which elects municipal officers from political subdivisions may establish, in accord…

Sec. 9-169e. Voting districts in special elections held to fill vacancy in district or municipal office. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, any special act or home rule charter, any special election held to fill a vacancy in a district office or in a mun…

Sec. 9-169f. Reapportionment required for certain municipal legislative bodies. Not later than June first in the year after the first regular General Assembly election following a reapportionment of the General Assembly, each municipal legislative body whose members are elected w…

Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly. (a) The town clerk of any municipality (1) which is divided between two or more assembly districts, two or more senatorial districts or two or more congres…

Sec. 9-169h. Adjustment of decennial census information re certain incarcerated individuals for purposes of determining state legislative and municipal voting districts. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, on or before the thirtieth day of June in 202…

Sec. 9-170. Eligibility to vote at town elections. At any regular or special town election any person may vote who is registered as an elector on the revised registry list of the town last completed and he shall vote only in the district in which he is so registered, provided any…

Sec. 9-171. Eligibility to vote at city elections. In all cities, unless otherwise provided by law, any person entitled to vote at city elections who is registered on the revised registry list last completed, and any person having a legal right to vote at such elections whose nam…

Sec. 9-172. Eligibility to vote at state elections. At any regular or special state election any person may vote who was registered on the last-completed revised registry list of the town in which he offers to vote, and he shall vote in the district in which he was so registered;…

Sec. 9-172a. Revised registry list defined for purposes of special elections. For purposes of special elections, the term “revised registry list last completed”, as used in sections 9-170, 9-171 and 9-172, means the registry list last completed for the last regular election held …

Sec. 9-172b. Updated list and registration deadline for special election or referendum. (a) In each municipality or political subdivision in which a special election or referendum is to be held, the registrars of voters shall prepare an updated list of the names and addresses of …

Sec. 9-173. Plurality required for election. In the election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General, the person receiving the greatest number of votes for each of said offices, respectively, shall be declared elected…

Sec. 9-174. Hours of voting on day of election and during period of early voting. Voting by electors and same-day election registration applicants in line at hour prescribed for closing of voting location. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special a…

Sec. 9-174a. Emergency contingency plan for elections, primaries and referenda. Model plan. (a) For each municipality, the registrars of voters, in consultation with the municipal clerk, shall create an emergency contingency plan for elections, primaries and referenda to be held …

Sec. 9-174b. Notification re extension of hours of polling place. (a) Each candidate on a ballot for any election, as defined in section 9-1, may provide to the registrars of voters of any town in which such ballot shall be voted upon the name and contact information, including i…

Sec. 9-175. Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots. (a) The electors in the several towns in the state, at the state election in 1964, and quadrennially thereafter, shall elect electors of President and Vice President of the United States, no…

Sec. 9-175a. Agreement Among the States to Elect the President of the United States by National Popular Vote. The Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining t…

Sec. 9-176. Meeting of presidential electors. The presidential electors shall meet at the office of the Secretary of the State at twelve o'clock noon on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday of the December following their election and, as required by the Constitution and …

Sec. 9-177. Compensation of presidential electors. Each elector of President and Vice President of the United States shall receive ten dollars a day when attending upon the duties of his appointment, for which the Comptroller, on presentation to him of the certificate of the chai…

Sec. 9-178. Senator in Congress. A senator in Congress shall be elected by the electors of the several towns, as provided by the Constitution of the United States, in any year occurring next before the expiration of the term of a senator in Congress, and in any other year when th…

Sec. 9-179. Representative in Congress. At each state election the electors of the several towns in each congressional district in this state shall elect a representative in the Congress of the United States for such district to represent this state in said Congress. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 9-180. Representative at large. Section 9-180 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1101; 1953, S. 661d; April, 1964, P.A. 2, S. 6.)

Sec. 9-181. State officers. At the state election to be held in 1966, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General to hold their respective offices from the Wednesday following the fir…

Sec. 9-182. Sheriffs. Section 9-182 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 449; 1953, S. 664d; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)

Sec. 9-183. Justices of the peace. Section 9-183 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7545, 7546; 1953, S. 665d; 1967, P.A. 831, S. 5; P. A. 73-666, S. 1, 3; P.A. 74-11, S. 2, 4; 74-109, S. 10, 11.)

Sec. 9-183a. Number of justices of the peace, exceptions. (a) The number of justices of the peace for each town shall be equal to one-third the number of jurors to which such town is by law entitled, except in the town of Waterbury the number shall be sixty-nine, in the town of T…

Sec. 9-183b. (Formerly Sec. 9-252). Nomination of justices of the peace by parties qualifying as major parties based on enrollment. Terms. Primaries. In 1994, 1996, and quadrennially thereafter, two-thirds of the total number of justices of the peace in each town shall be selecte…

Sec. 9-183c. Nomination of justices of the peace by parties qualifying as major parties based solely on gubernatorial vote. Terms. Primaries. In 1994, 1996, and quadrennially thereafter, when there is a political party which is a major party, as defined in subparagraph (A) of sub…

Sec. 9-184. Vacancy in office of justice of the peace when justice nominated by a major party. Any vacancy in the office of a justice of the peace selected (1) pursuant to section 9-183b or (2) pursuant to section 9-183c shall be filled by appointment by the town committee of the…

Secs. 9-184a and 9-184b. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 9-184c. Appointment as justices of the peace of electors who are not members of major parties. Terms. Vacancies. (a) In 1994, 1996, and quadrennially thereafter, the town clerk of each town shall appoint as justice of the peace a number of electors of the town who are not me…

Sec. 9-185. Municipal officers. Unless otherwise provided by special act or charter, (1) members of boards of assessment appeals, (2) selectmen, (3) town clerks, (4) town treasurers, (5) collectors of taxes, (6) constables, (7) registrars of voters, (8) subject to the provisions …