The following comes by way of Dentons 50 partner firm the Connecticut Group.

Tuesday's primary results yielded one big surprise: Republican Bob Stefanowski upset the party's endorsed candidate, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, and won the GOP nomination for governor.

Stefanowski, a former GE and UBS executive who self-financed his campaign, took to the airwaves and ran ads months before his opponents – a strategy that paid off. He cruised to victory tonight, defying expectations, and teeing up an unlikely matchup for November.

Stefanowski will face Democrat Ned Lamont in the governor's race. Lamont won the Democratic primary for governor by a large margin over Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim.

A complete list of the primary results for the state's constitutional offices is below.

Party-endorsed candidates indicated by *

Republican Primary Democratic Primary
Governor
*Mark Boughton
Tim Herbst
Steve Obsitnik
Bob Stefanowski✓
David Stemerman		 Governor
Joe Ganim
*Ned Lamont✓
Lt. Governor
*Joe Markley✓
Jayme Stevenson
Erin Stewart		 Lt. Governor
Eva Bermudez-Zimmerman
*Susan Bysiewicz✓
Treasurer
*Thad Grey✓
Art Linares		 Treasurer
Dita Bhargava
*Sean Wooden✓
Attorney General
*Susan Hatfield✓
John Shaban		 Attorney General
Paul Doyle
Chris Mattei
*William Tong✓
Comptroller
Mark Greenberg
*Kurt Miller✓

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