Lumaj, Thomas projected to win Connecticut primaries

Projected results

Peter Lumaj was projected by the NBC News Decision Desk to win the 2026 Republican primary for Connecticut secretary of the state. The NBC News results page identified the Republican contest as uncontested and displayed zero votes and 0.0% at its Sept. 22 update.

Stephanie Thomas, the incumbent, was projected by the NBC News Decision Desk to win the 2026 Democratic primary for the same office. The results page also identified the Democratic contest as uncontested and displayed zero votes and 0.0% at the time of the update.

Each candidate was the only person listed in that party’s primary. The projections therefore identified Lumaj as the Republican nominee and Thomas as the Democratic nominee, even though the displayed vote totals had not changed from zero.

How the results are tracked

The vote figures on the results page come from the Associated Press, while the race projections are made by the NBC News Decision Desk. A projection is a media organization’s determination about the outcome of a race; it is separate from the displayed vote count.

NBC defines “expected vote” as an estimate of how many total votes will be counted in a race. The estimate can draw on early-voting totals and information sent to vote reporters by local election officials on Election Day. It can change as additional information is collected.

No expected-vote figure was displayed in the reported result details. The page’s zero-vote display means the listed projections were not accompanied by a reported popular-vote total at that update.