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CONNECTICUT<

Connecticut's voters reelected all six of the state's representa-
tives, but not without giving a scare to Rep. Sam Gejdenson, a
liberal Democrat seeking a seventh term in the state's 2nd Dis-
trict, home to such defense contractors as General Dynamics'
Electric Boat Co. Gejdenson, who swept to victory two years ago
with 60 percent of the vote, this time squeaked by with a margin
of about 4,000 votes out of nearly 242,500 cast after Republican
candidate Edward W. Munster accused him of being a check bouncer
and enjoying House perks.

In the affluent 5th District, Rep. Gary A. Franks, the House's
only black Republican, won a second two-year term with about 45
percent of the vote, his opposition split between two Democrats,
one running as an independent.

MAINE<Voters in Maine reelected both incumbent House members. In
the 1st District, which includes President Bush's Kennebunkport
vacation home, Democratic Rep. Thomas H. Andrews - a self-
described advocate of the middle class - won a second term, turn-
ing back a challenge from conservative GOP activist Linda Bean by
2 to 1.

In the 2nd District, veteran GOP Rep. Olympia J. Snowe survived a
strong challenge from former Democratic state Rep. Patrick K.
McGowan, who had lost a bid to unseat her in 1990 by only 5,000
votes. Although Snowe may have been hampered by the unpopularity
of her husband, Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. (R), who has struggled
with budget problems, she benefited from a divided opposition,
capturing 48 percent of the votes to McGowan's 42 percent. The
remaining 10 percent went to Jonathan Carter, candidate of the
environmentalist Green Party.

MASSACHUSETTS<The equation in strongly Democratic Massachusetts
was simple: The Democrats held all 10 U.S. House seats and would
have retained them, except two incumbents were tainted by scan-
dal. Rep. Joseph D. Early, who came in with the reform-minded
Watergate class of 1974, was a victim of his 140 House Bank over-
drafts and lost to Republican state Rep. Peter Blute. Rep Nicho-
las Mavroules, who is facing a 17-count federal corruption in-
dictment, was beaten by Republican state Rep. Peter Torkildsen.<

NEW HAMPSHIRE<Bill Clinton will be the first president since
World War II to go to the White House without winning his party's
presidential New Hampshire primary - he was beaten by Paul E.
Tsongas - and his narrow victory in the state Tuesday showed he
still has only lukewarm support there. He won 39 percent of the
vote to 38 for President Bush, and Ross Perot picked up 23 per-
cent in the recession-wracked state.

It was the first time, too, in 80 years that New Hampshire voted
to turn out a sitting Republican president.

Clinton's squeaker did little to help other Democrats on the
ticket. Republican Gov. Judd Gregg narrowly defeated Democrat
John Rauh, a businessman, to keep in GOP hands the U.S. Senate
seat being vacated by Warren B. Rudman. Former state attorney
general Steve Merrill, a close associate of former White House
chief of staff John H. Sununu, trounced Democratic state Rep. De-
borah "Arnie" Arnesen to succeed Gregg as governor.  Arnesen had
pledged to seek a statewide income tax, a position that remains
anathema in a conservative state.<

NEW JERSEY<Voters in New Jersey's heavily urban 13th District,
which includes Newark, Elizabeth and parts of Jersey City, elect-
ed state Sen. Robert Menendez (D) to be the state's first Hispan-
ic U.S. representative. Running for an open seat in a district
redrawn to increase Hispanics' political presence to 43 percent
of the population, Menendez defeated GOP lawyer Fred J. Theemling
Jr. by  2 to 1.

In two other contests for open seats, state Rep. Bob Franks, a
former state Republican Party chairman, was elected to succeed
retiring GOP Rep. Matthew J. Rinaldo in the 7th District, while
Democrat Herbert C. Klein overcame Republican and independent op-
ponents to claim the seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Robert A.
Roe in the 8th District. In other House races, voters reelected
all 10 incumbents.

NEW YORK<The U.S. Senate race here was by far the most bruising
contest in the Northeast, and the outcome - Republican incumbent
Alfonse M.  D'Amato's razor-thin victory over Democratic state
Attorney General Robert Abrams - was a product of New York's
unique brand of ethnic politics.  Abrams, who began as a clear
favorite, lost because he was apparently deserted by parts of
three key constituencies: party-line Democrats who resented his
tactics against Geraldine Ferraro in the Democratic primary;
Jews, who followed former New York Mayor Edward I. Koch into
D'Amato's camp; and blacks, still resentful over Abrams's han-
dling of rape allegations by a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, in
the mid-1980s.

New York's U.S. House delegation will be changed substantially,
largely because of redistricting, which cost the state three of
its 34 seats. Of the state's 34 members in the current House,
eight retired, one died and one was defeated in the primary elec-
tion.  On Tuesday, Rep. Bill Green (R) lost because the strongly
Democratic Upper West Side of Manhattan, grafted on to his "Silk
Stocking" district, supported Democratic City Councilwoman Caro-
lyn B. Maloney.

On Long Island, Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D), who wrote 151 bad
checks on the House Bank, was ousted by Republican Rick A. Lazio.
But Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D), who wrote 111 bad checks and was
redistricted, survived by a narrow margin.

RHODE ISLAND<The Democrats had such a lock on this small,
recession-plagued state that none of the three presidential can-
didates bothered to campaign there. Gov. Bruce Sundlun cruised to
reelection over his Republican challenger, auto dealer Elizabeth
Ann Leonard, and Democratic U.S. Rep. John F. Reed shrugged off
Republican James W. Bell by 3 to 1. But Rep. Ronald K. Machtley
(R), who wrote 21 bad checks in the House Bank scandal, also won
big in what had been a traditionally Democratic district before
he captured it in 1988.

Rhode Island voters approved a proposal to extend the terms of
top state officials from two to four years, but limit the office-
holders to two terms.  VERMONT<Voters in the Green Mountain State
delivered a ringing endorsement of the political status quo,
granting Democratic U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy a fourth term,
reelecting at-large Rep. Bernard Sanders, the only independent in
the House of Representatives, and electing Democratic Gov. Howard
Dean to a full two-year term.

Dean, elected lieutenant governor in 1990, became the state's
chief executive last year on the death of Republican Gov. Richard
Snelling. On Tuesday he captured about 75 percent of the vote in
turning back three challengers.

Sanders, a self-described Socialist and former mayor of Burling-
ton who was first elected to Congress in 1990, won about 60 per-
cent of the vote against Republican Tim Philbin and Democrat
Lewis E. Young. Leahy took about 55 percent of the vote against
Republican Secretary of State James H. Douglas.< - Thomas W.
Lippman, Gustav Niebuhr,> Laurie Goodstein and Christopher B.
Daly>02:33 11-05C9999-----

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