Last Gubernatorial Candidate to Win a Cross Endorsement: Raymond Baldwin, Republican of Stratford, Back in 1938

Dannel Malloy’s noontime endorsement from the Working Families Party may only mean that 50,000 or so union members who would have voted for him anyway, will be able to do so on the WF line on the Election Day ballot.  According to the 2008 election results, WF voters meant 17,000 in the First District congressional race; 13,164 in the 2nd District; 25,411 in the Third; 9,130 for Jim Himes in the Fourth CD and 18,149 in the Fifth.  Back in 1938, Ray Baldwin, R of Stratford, won the gubernatorial election with the help of a cross endorsement. That’s the last time that has happened in a CT gubernatorial slection.