What we saw were Democrats coming out. Democrats supporting the issues that mattered,” Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves said.
Yankee, a division of Eversource, provides natural gas to about 252,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 85 communities in Connecticut, according to PURA.
Unofficial results show 21 communities flipping from Republican to Democratic control. Two others - Middlebury and Wolcott - went from Republican to a petition candidate.