Dems Choose Lamont, Stefanowski Leads GOP

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By Richard Kaufman

Update: 11:00 p.m. Unofficial results

Bob Stefanowski will be the presumptive GOP nominee for Governor, as Danbury mayor, Mark Boughton has conceded the race. Additionally, State Sen. Joe Markley has won the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor.

Greenwich residents selected two of their own — Ned Lamont and David Stemerman — for governor, but only Lamont was able to garner statewide support. He overwhelmingly defeated Bridgeport mayor, Joe Ganim, to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in November’s election.

Greenwich voters also voted for Markley, and picked Greenwich resident Dita Bhargava on the Democratic side. But joining Lamont on the ticket in November will be Susan Bysiewicz.

Original post — Unofficial primary results as of 10:35 p.m., Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Connecticut voters headed to the polls for the Democratic and Republican primaries to determine party candidates for November.

The race for the Democratic gubernatorial nominee ended early, as Greenwich’s own Ned Lamont, who was denied his party’s nomination in 2010 and lost the primary to current Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, defeated Bridgeport mayor Joe Ganim. The race was called by the Associated Press around 8:30 p.m., with only 10 percent of the vote reported. As of 10:35 p.m., Tuesday, Lamont garnered over 105,000 votes to Ganim’s 19,563 with , according to the Secretary of the State’s Election Night Reporting System (ENR) with 61 percent of precincts reporting.

On the GOP side, according to the ENR, Bob Stefanowski, a former Chief Financial Officer for UBS, leads Danbury mayor and GOP-endorsed candidate, Mark Boughton. Stefanowski has 29,344 votes (30 percent) to Boughton’s 20,158 (20.6 percent) with 47 percent of precincts reporting.

Stay tuned as the results come in, and check back for results from other races around the state.

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