:Connecticut Working Families Party

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| name = Connecticut Working Families Party

| logo = File:Connecticut Working Families Party Logo.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Working Families Party}}

| headquarters = 30 Arbor Street,
Hartford, CT 06106

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| membership_year = 2022

| membership = 304{{cite web |last1=Winger |first1=Richard |title=New Connecticut Registration Data |url=https://ballot-access.org/2023/01/14/new-connecticut-registration-data-4/ |website=Ballot Access News |access-date=16 January 2024}}

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|Social democracy{{cite web |url=http://prospect.org/article/meet-working-families-party-whose-ballot-line-play-new-york |title=Meet the Working Families Party, Whose Ballot Line is in Play in New York |website=Prospect.org |date=2014-11-04 |access-date=2016-11-30 |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526085547/http://prospect.org/article/meet-working-families-party-whose-ballot-line-play-new-york |url-status=live }}

|Progressivism{{cite web|url=https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2021/08/11/progressives-contemplate-post-cuomo-politics|title=Progressives contemplate post-Cuomo politics|publisher=Spectrum News|date=11 August 2021|access-date=October 22, 2021|archive-date=October 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022133950/https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2021/08/11/progressives-contemplate-post-cuomo-politics|url-status=live}}

|Democratic socialism{{cite web |last1=Bredderman |first1=Will |title=Bernie Sanders Calls the Working Families Party 'the Closest Thing' to Socialism |date=November 5, 2016 |url=https://observer.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-calls-the-working-families-party-the-closest-thing-to-socialism/ |publisher=The Observer |access-date=24 October 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Lewis |first1=Rebecca C. |title=The Working Families Party is looking to oust seven Assembly Democratic incumbents |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/06/working-families-party-looking-oust-seven-assembly-democratic-incumbents/368352/ |access-date=9 July 2023 |date=June 21, 2022}}

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|Center-left to left-wing{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-jamaal-bowman-jumaane-williams-working-families-party-20200211-n5i24y4frrgnhnfo4acx3egez4-story.html |title=Working Families Party, Jumaane Williams endorse Jamaal Bowman's challenge to Rep. Eliot Engel |quote=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. |date=11 February 2020 |access-date=2 April 2020 |work=New York Daily News |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514165650/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-jamaal-bowman-jumaane-williams-working-families-party-20200211-n5i24y4frrgnhnfo4acx3egez4-story.html |url-status=live }}

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| seats1_title = State House

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|151|hex=#F598E2}}

| seats2_title = State Senate

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|36|hex=#F598E2}}

| seats3_title = Statewide Executive Offices

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|6|hex=#F598E2}}

| seats5_title = U.S. House of Representatives

| seats5 = {{Composition bar|0|5|hex=#F598E2}}

| seats6_title = U.S. Senate

| seats6 = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex=#F598E2}}

| seats7_title = Hartford City Council[http://www.hartford.gov/council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102052121/http://www.hartford.gov/council|date=November 2, 2015}} City of Hartford – Court of Common Council[http://www.hartford.gov/council/contact-council-members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922011425/http://www.hartford.gov/council/contact-council-members|date=September 22, 2018}} City of Hartford – Court of Common Council – Contact

| seats7 = {{Composition bar|2|9|hex=#F598E2}}

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| website = {{URL|https://workingfamilies.org/connecticut/}}

| country = Connecticut

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{{Short description|Minor political party}}

The Connecticut Working Families Party is a political party in the U.S. state of Connecticut with approximately 300 members.{{Cite web|last=Winger|first=Richard|title=November 2020 Ballot Access News Print Edition|url=http://ballot-access.org/2020/11/21/november-2020-ballot-access-news-print-edition/|access-date=March 15, 2021|website=Ballot Access News}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/working-families-party-connecticut/495593/|title=Can the Working Families Party Keep Winning in Connecticut?|last=Semuels|first=Alana|date=August 15, 2016|work=The Atlantic|access-date=23 March 2017}} The party primarily endorses like-minded Democrats but has run candidates against Democrats on the Working Families Party ballot line.

History

The Connecticut Working Families Party was formed in 2002, by organizations that included Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Communications Workers of America, and United Food and Commercial Workers.{{sfn|Sekou|2020|p=108}}

In 2007, Wildaliz Bermudez and Larry Deutsch were elected to the city council in Hartford, Connecticut.{{sfn|Sekou|2020|p=110}} The number of votes Dannel Malloy received on the Working Families' ballot line was greater than his margin of victory in the 2010 gubernatorial election.{{sfn|Sekou|2020|p=111}}

In a February 2015 special election, Ed Gomes was elected to the Connecticut State Senate using the WFP as his only ballot line, becoming the first Connecticut WFP member to do so.{{cite news|url=http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Working-Families-Party-claims-big-victory-6108415.php|title=Working Families Party claims big victory|last=Lockhart|first=Brian |author2=Keila Torres Ocasio |date=February 28, 2015|work=Connecticut Post|access-date=23 March 2017}}{{sfn|Sekou|2020|p=111}}

In 2017, Joshua M. Hall, running in an April 2017 special election for the Connecticut House of Representatives, became the second candidate in the nation to win a state legislative office running solely as a nominee for the Working Families Party.{{cite web|url=https://ctmirror.org/2017/04/25/wfp-wins-hartford-seat-gop-keeps-seat-in-watertown/|title=Working Families wins in Hartford, GOP in Watertown - The CT MirrorThe CT Mirror|website=ctmirror.org|date=April 26, 2017 |access-date=22 March 2018|archive-date=April 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426082524/https://ctmirror.org/2017/04/25/wfp-wins-hartford-seat-gop-keeps-seat-in-watertown/|url-status=live}}{{sfn|Sekou|2020|p=113}}

Footnotes

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Works cited

  • {{cite book|last=Sekou |first=Bilal |title=Beyond Donkeys and Elephants: Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics |publisher=University Press of Kansas |date=2020 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv15tt76n |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15tt76n |isbn=978-0-7006-2929-9}}

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Category:Political parties in Connecticut

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