Only inertia keeps Connecticut expensive.
Electricity costs too much. Housing is out of reach. The tax code asks the least of the people who have the most. Every one of these has a fix, just within reach. Build the Future works to elect the people who will finally pass them.
151 House seats 36 Senate seats 169 towns 41 Democrats challenging a Republican incumbent
All 151 districts
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Every district in the Connecticut House, and who holds it right now. Tap a district on the map, or search by town, district number, or representative.
Why numbers matter
Connecticut has a part-time legislature.
5 and 3
Months in session. January to June in odd years, February to May in even ones. The rest of the year the legislature is not meeting.
$43,600
Base pay for a state representative. Almost everyone in the building holds another job.
3 or 4
Representatives sharing a single staffer. The nonpartisan offices do great work, but elected officials here do not have the personal staff that members of full-time legislatures elsewhere in the country do.
None of this is built for taking on entrenched interests. A legislature like this one moves only when enough of its members walk in already knowing what they came to do, and already willing to do it. That is what this work is about — electing enough people who are rowing in the same direction.
What this is
We elect fighters for working families.
Build the Future is a Connecticut political action committee guided by fairness and intent on fixing bad systems. We work to elect people to the state legislature who treat the cost of living here as the emergency it is, and who will vote that way once they get to Hartford.
There are 151 seats in the Connecticut House and 36 in the Senate, and every one of them is on the ballot every two years. Most people don't know which district they live in, let alone who represents them or who is running against them. That's most of why the map above exists.
We are not a campaign and we are not going away after November. The work is finding good candidates in all 169 towns, helping them win, and holding on to what gets built.
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Every dollar goes toward electing Democrats who understand how severe this problem is, and who treat fixing it as both important and urgent. The more people in that building who know we are in a crisis, the faster we get to solutions.