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Derek Slap
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Connecticut State Senate District 5
Tenure

2019 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

6

Predecessor
Prior offices
Connecticut House of Representatives District 19

Compensation

Base salary

$40,000/year

Per diem

$No per diem is paid.

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Contact

Derek Slap (Democratic Party) is a member of the Connecticut State Senate, representing District 5. He assumed office on March 1, 2019. His current term ends on January 6, 2027.

Slap (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Connecticut State Senate to represent District 5. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Derek Slap earned an M.B.A. from the UConn School of Business and bachelor's degrees in broadcast journalism and international relations from Syracuse University. Slap was a news anchor and reporter at NBC Connecticut from 1999 to 2004. He has also worked as Director of Communications for Senate Democrats, Chief of Staff for the Senate Democratic Caucus, and as a lecturer at Sacred Heart University, Yale University and Quinnipiac University, among others. In 2017, he won an ARC Angel Award.[1]

Slap was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in a special election on February 26, 2019. In the 2019 session, he was a member of the Commerce, Higher Education, and Employment Advancement committees and vice-chair of the Human Services Committee. Slap previously represented District 19 in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.[1]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Slap was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Slap was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Slap was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Connecticut committee assignments, 2017
Energy and Technology, Vice chair
Environment
Planning and Development

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Connecticut State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for Connecticut State Senate District 5

Incumbent Derek Slap defeated Kyla Zimmermann in the general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Derek Slap
Derek Slap (D)
 
68.2
 
36,671
Kyla Zimmermann (R)
 
31.8
 
17,132

Total votes: 53,803
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Derek Slap advanced from the Democratic primary for Connecticut State Senate District 5.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Kyla Zimmermann advanced from the Republican primary for Connecticut State Senate District 5.

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Slap in this election.

2022

See also: Connecticut State Senate elections, 2022

General election

General election for Connecticut State Senate District 5

Incumbent Derek Slap won election in the general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Derek Slap
Derek Slap (D)
 
100.0
 
30,947

Total votes: 30,947
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Derek Slap advanced from the Democratic primary for Connecticut State Senate District 5.

2020

See also: Connecticut State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Connecticut State Senate District 5

Incumbent Derek Slap defeated Phillip Chabot and Joelle Nawrocki in the general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Derek Slap
Derek Slap (D)
 
65.4
 
37,360
Image of Phillip Chabot
Phillip Chabot (R)
 
31.5
 
17,964
Joelle Nawrocki (Independent Party)
 
3.1
 
1,780

Total votes: 57,104
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Derek Slap advanced from the Democratic primary for Connecticut State Senate District 5.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Phillip Chabot advanced from the Republican primary for Connecticut State Senate District 5.

2019

See also: Connecticut state legislative special elections, 2019

General election

Special general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5

Derek Slap defeated Bill Wadsworth, Jeffrey Przech, and Mark Stewart Greenstein in the special general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5 on February 26, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Derek Slap
Derek Slap (D)
 
63.3
 
6,063
Bill Wadsworth (R)
 
34.3
 
3,284
Image of Jeffrey Przech
Jeffrey Przech (Independent)
 
1.9
 
186
Image of Mark Stewart Greenstein
Mark Stewart Greenstein (Amigo Constitution Party)
 
0.5
 
51

Total votes: 9,584
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2018

See also: Connecticut House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Connecticut House of Representatives District 19

Incumbent Derek Slap won election in the general election for Connecticut House of Representatives District 19 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Derek Slap
Derek Slap (D)
 
100.0
 
9,515

Total votes: 9,515
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2016

See also: Connecticut House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Connecticut House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016. Incumbent Brian Becker (D) did not seek re-election.

Derek Slap defeated Chris Barnes in the Connecticut House of Representatives District 19 general election.[2]

Connecticut House of Representatives, District 19 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Derek Slap 53.85% 7,669
     Republican Chris Barnes 46.15% 6,573
Total Votes 14,242
Source: Connecticut Secretary of the State


Derek Slap ran unopposed in the Connecticut House of Representatives District 19 Democratic primary.

Connecticut House of Representatives, District 19 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Derek Slap  (unopposed)

Chris Barnes ran unopposed in the Connecticut House of Representatives District 19 Republican primary.

Connecticut House of Representatives, District 19 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Chris Barnes  (unopposed)


Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Derek Slap did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Derek Slap did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary


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Derek Slap campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Connecticut State Senate District 5Won general$12,458 $715
2022Connecticut State Senate District 5Won general$51,899 $52,718
2020Connecticut State Senate District 5Won general$121,879 N/A**
2019Connecticut State Senate District 5Won general$88,289 N/A**
2018Connecticut House of Representatives District 19Won general$15,742 N/A**
2016Connecticut House of Representatives, District 19Won $36,655 N/A**
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Beth Bye (D)
Connecticut State Senate District 5
2019-Present
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
-
Connecticut House of Representatives District 19
2017-2019
Succeeded by
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