On “Super Tuesday” presidential primary day in many states, Democrats in a New Britain Voting District were also electing Democratic Town Committee members.
Results in the Primary Election for Democratic Town Committee in New Britain’s 11th Voting District appear to show the winners as Larry Hermanowski with 61 votes, John Tully with 55 votes and Lisa Wisniewski with 53 votes.
In the top three of four election, Bobby Berriault came fourth with 31 votes. These results do not include votes cast by absentee ballot, but with reportedly only two cast by absentee ballot, the polling place results appear to be the outcome.
The 11th Voting District represents the voters who vote at the Holmes School.
The Democratic Town Committee’s main responsibility is voting to endorse candidates for Democratic Party nominations and to select delegates to conventions to make endorsements for statewide or multi-town offices. Endorsed candidates become the party’s nominated candidates if unchallenged in a primary. When first elected, the Town Committee also chooses the local party Chair and officers, who govern the local Democratic Party organization for a two year term.
The New Britain Democratic Town Committee is chosen in a direct primary system. While some local parties endorse their town committees in a caucus meeting, in which only party members who attend vote, New Britain Democrats require that candidates for its Town Committee, in order to qualify, collect nomination signatures from at least five percent of Democratic Party registered voters in the voting district they seek to represent.
If more candidates for Democratic Town Committee receive enough signatures to qualify than there are seats to fill, then there is a primary election in which voters who are registered Democrats decide who will represent them. That is what happened in the 11th Voting District this year.
As a result of the apparent outcome of the primary election, Hermanowski, Tully and Wisniewski will represent the 11th Voting District Democrats on the Democratic Town Committees for a two year term.
