Connecticut Democrats won elections across the state on Tuesday night, reelecting all Democratic lawmakers to Congress and handing seven electoral votes to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sen. Chris Murphy was elected to a third term, according to the Associated Press, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro won an 18th term in Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes New Haven. Four other House Democrats were reelected on Tuesday, including Jahana Hayes, who ran in Connecticut’s only competitive district.

New Haven residents voted overwhelmingly for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to vote totals compiled by the New Haven Independent. The Democratic ticket won 25,984 votes in the city, nearly 80 percent of the vote, compared to 5,806 votes for former President Donald Trump and JD Vance LAW ’13, numbers that include early voting and Tuesday’s in-person voting but not absentee or same-day-registration ballots. President Joe Biden won 84 percent of New Haven’s votes when he defeated Trump in 2020.

As of Wednesday morning, Trump secured his second presidency and will likely win all seven swing states. 

DeLauro celebrated her victory in a 9:45 p.m. speech at the Shubert Theatre when the Associated Press had not yet called her race. A crowd of her supporters had gathered earlier at the theater earlier in the evening.

“I truly am humbled by the continued support, but more importantly, the confidence that you have in me. I don’t take your trust for granted,” DeLauro said, standing on a staircase landing in the downtown theater’s lobby. “Tonight, it is reenergizing to fight even harder for all of you.”

Murphy spoke to supporters at a state Democratic Party event in Hartford after the polls closed and his win over the Republican Matthew Corey became evident.

“There’s a lot of anxiety tonight,” Murphy said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by his staff. “We’re going to stay up late this evening. But I feel optimistic about this country.” He also said he was “feeling in my heart that we have left it all on the table” in the campaign.

At the Shubert, DeLauro addressed her hopes for the next Congress, including reviving an expanded child tax credit, although it was not yet clear whether Democrats will control the House of Representatives and likely make her the chair of its Appropriations Committee. 

Reached for comment at 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Michael Massey, DeLauro’s Republican- and Independent-endorsed challenger, told the News that he was not ready to comment on the election results, as the race was then not yet called.

“Hopefully, she concedes if I win,” Massey said of DeLauro, adding that his campaign showed that cities like New Haven could choose alternatives to incumbent Democrats. “Call me when I win.”

As of 7:30 a.m., DeLauro swept 54.9 percent of the vote and the Associated Press had called her victory the previous night, as approximately 67 percent of the votes had been counted. 

After an unsurprisingly successful Election Day for Democrats statewide, residents’ anxiety remained high about the uncalled presidential race.

In her speech, DeLauro briefly mentioned the elephant in the room. “I know everyone in this room is anxiously, anxiously awaiting the returns from across the country. But I like what I see in initial reports,” she said.

While stopping by a polling place in Newhallville in the afternoon, Murphy said he would have a drink in the evening to cool his nerves, and that Democrats had good reason to fear a second Trump presidency.

“I’d like to tell people that they shouldn’t be anxious about a Donald Trump win, but I think that they should,” he said.

The last time Connecticut gave its Electoral College votes to a Republican presidential candidate was 1988 when George H.W. Bush ’48 defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis in the state and the overall election.

Update, Nov. 6: The story has been updated to include the most recent election results.