2025 Election Final Results

On Wednesday the Town Clerk's office released the final vote tallies for the 2025 municipal election. The tallies served to confirm the preliminary results published by the Outsider Wednesday morning.

For the next two years, the membership of Southington's governing bodies will be as follows.

TOWN COUNCIL

BOARD OF FINANCE

BOARD OF EDUCATION

PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION

BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS

TOWN CLERK

Kathy Larkin (R)

Finally, both referendum questions received a large majority of 'yes' votes.

Patterns In The Results

The specific motivations of the 11,000+ voters who came out to the polls Tuesday are unknowable. That said, a few basic patterns emerge from the results.

First, voters largely chose experience over innovation. Most of the highest vote-getters have served in office previously and been involved in Southington politics for a considerable length of time. The candidates who did not pass the threshold were, with one exception, making their first runs for office.

Second, women running for office met with notable success. Every woman who ran for office won and placed in the top half of the candidate list, as ordered by number of votes.

Third, for every governing body except the Board of Finance, the greatest number of votes went to a Democrat. The Democratic slate for Town Council achieved a rather paradoxical result: although three of the top four were Democrats, the other six candidates to pass the threshold were all Republicans, which means that the Republicans will retain a 6-3 majority on the Council. The elevated vote tallies for top Democrats can plausibly be correlated with the success the Democratic party had in municipal elections elsewhere in the state on Tuesday.

Finally, voter turnout was slightly lower than average for a municipal election. This year's figure - 35.38% - is lower than it has been for four of the past five contests: 37.83% in 2023, 38.27% in 2021, 36.68% in 2019, 35.12% in 2017, and 36.13% in 2015.