Murphy wins Dem. Primary, McMahon wins GOP Primary in Granby, East Granby, State

Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy won their respective primary elections Tuesday and will now campaign through election day for one of Connecticut's two seats on the U.S. Senate. Granby. Both primary winners carried Granby and East Granby as well.

The local results reflect the statewide results (at the bottom of this story) as primary winners McMahon and Murphy will vie for a U.S. Senate seat in the November election.

Vote Totals for Granby:

Chris Murphy (Dem.): 263

Susan Bysiewicz (Dem.): 125

Linda McMahon (GOP): 610

Chris Shays (GOP): 129

Vote Totals for East Granby:

Chris Murphy (Dem.): 133

Susan Bysiewicz (Dem.): 69

Linda McMahon (GOP): 241

Chris Shays (GOP): 45

Voter turnout was decent in both towns, with Granby residents casting 1,127 votes, representing 27.2 percent of eligible voters. East Granby had a total of 488 voters perform their civic duty, 25.4 percent of the total eligible voters in town.

Statewide Results:

As expected, Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy will face off in November for the right to succeed Joe Lieberman in the U.S. Senate.

With 77 percent of the precincts reporting at 10 p.m., McMahon was soundly defeating former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays with 76 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, Murphy cruised by Bysiewicz, the Middletown native and former Secretary of the State, by a comfortable 66 percent to 34 percent margin.

In the Fifth Congressional District, Elizabeth Esty emerged on the Democratic side with a convincing 43 percent to 34 percent margin (as of 10 p.m.) over the embattled Chris Donovan, once considered the strong frontrunner before a campaign-finance scandal involving several members of his staff, and dark-horse Dan Roberti (23 percent).

Republicans in the Fifth District went down to the wire, with favorite Andrew Roraback pulling it out with 34 percent of the vote, followed by Mark Greenberg (28 percent), Lisa Wilson-Foley (19 percent) and Justin Bernier (19 percent) as of 10 p.m.

In the Second Congressional District, East Lyme restaurateur Paul Formica was running away with the Republican primary over Madison’s Daria Novak by about a 2-to-1 ratio, as of 9 p.m. and was declared the winner.