Get Out the Vote Data

Hartford Neighborhoods Voter Data Story (2023)

This project is brought to you through the generous support of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

With the 2023 municipal election in Hartford in mind, CTData met with Hartford organizations that were engaged in get-out-the-vote activities as part of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s Get out the Vote grant program. Through interactive sessions, this group identified several questions that would be helpful in their efforts. Explore the projects below. This ongoing project is a partnership between CTData and the Hartford Votes Coalition and its members.

Learn about our latest project, in Partnership with the Hartford Votes-Hartford Votas Coalition: Building Democracy: Moving the Needle on Voter Engagement in Hartford. Information about Community Action Workshops will be available here in April!

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Hartford Youth Data Fellows Explore Voting and Civic Engagement Opportunities

Civic Engagement, Hartford Data Collaborative

On Thursday, March 12, the Hartford Youth Data Fellows welcomed a team from Hartford Votes-Vota Coalition for an engaging and informative session focused on civic participation in Hartford. The visit brought together 10 current fellows along with 3 alumni who are continuing their work as youth researchers studying access to sports and recreation across the city.

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Connecticut Experienced an Increase in Voter Turnout in the 2025 Election

Civic Engagement

From the 2021 to 2025 municipal election, voter turnout increased from 32% to 36% statewide. This represents almost 85,000 additional voters in the most recent election. Of the 158 towns that had a municipal election in both 2021 and 2025, almost three in four saw a higher turnout in 2025. In this blog post, we explore differences in voter turnout by town.

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Data for Democracy in Norwalk

Civic Engagement

In response to the federal data system going black in January of this year, we at CTData have been partnering with local organizations to bring people together across the state to share information about what we know about changes to federal and state data, and also to help folks connect locally around data and strategies they can use to best serve their region. On October 30, 2025, we partnered with Norwalk ACTS to bring this event to Norwalk. This post includes highlights from this session, but can’t do justice to the excellent presentations and conversations. Read this post to find many ways you can stay informed and take action!

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Responding to Federal Data Changes: Connecticut’s Path Forward

Civic Engagement, Census & ACS, Events

While the topic of “disappearing data” may seem alarmist, or perhaps relevant only to data people, what we are learning about changes to the support of our publicly funded data is going to affect every organization, including non-profit and for-profit organizations. At our May 30 event in Hartford, we learned more about what is happening to data and data partnership that is affecting state data, what we can do in our own organizations to follow the law and protect privacy, and most importantly, identified actions that we can all take as participants in this great democracy.

Civic Engagement, Census & ACS, Events