Canton Votes for Esty and Foley in 5th District, Murphy and McMahon for Senate

With a 30.6-percent turnout in Tuesday's primary, Canton voters gave the nod to Democrat Elizabeth Esty and Republican Lisa Wilson Foley in the 5th District and Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy for U.S. Senate. 

The vote totals in town were as follows: 

REPUBLICANS

•  — 149 
• Lisa Wilson-Foley — 203 
• Justin Bernier — 165
• Mark Greenberg — 180 

DEMOCRATS 

• Chris Donovan — 111
  Elizabeth Esty — 324
  Dan Roberti — 107

This is the seat currently held by U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, a former Democrat-turned-Independent who is retiring. 

DEMOCRATS

•  — 445 
• Susan Bysiewicz — 102

REPUBLICANS

• Linda E. McMahon — 587 
•  — 117 

A total of 554 or 26.6 percent of 2,082 Canton Democrats cast votes Tuesday. 

On the Republican side, turnout was 34.7 percent, with 709 of 2,043 coming out. 

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

In the Fifth Congressional District, Elizabeth Esty emerged on the Democratic side with a convincing 43% to 34% 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%).

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