Nixon carried Connecticut with 58.57% of the vote to McGovern's 40.13%, a victory margin of 18.44%.[1] He won every county in the state, but this result nonetheless made Connecticut almost 5% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
Nixon's victory was the first of five consecutive victories in the state, as Connecticut would not be won by a Democratic candidate again until Bill Clinton in 1992. Since then, Connecticut has become a safe Democratic state.
As of 2023, this was the most recent presidential election in which the Republican nominee carried the cities of Bridgeport and New London.