Kennedy carried Connecticut by a comfortable margin of 7.47%, making him the first Democratic winner in the state since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. Middlesex County voted Democratic for the first time since 1936.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this marks the last time in which the town of Mansfield was carried by the Republican nominee, as well as the last time in which Connecticut voted for a different candidate than Maine. This is also the most recent occasion that Connecticut voted more Democratic than neighboring New York.