US Midterms 2026
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Jahana Hayes, a Democrat who has represented Connecticut's 5th congressional district since 2019 and was named National Teacher of the Year in 2016, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican Chris Shea.
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Topic: U.S. Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT-05) and Debbie Dingell introduced the "Title IX Take Responsibility Act," a bill to hold schools more accountable for how they handle reports of sexual assault and harassment.
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CourtneyJahana Hayes is the Democratic candidate (with Working Families endorsement) for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, not a CT-05 House seat. The 5th District is a U.S.
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Jahana Hayes was born on March 8, 1973, in Waterbury, Connecticut, and grew up in public housing projects in that city, becoming a teen mother before graduating from high school.
She later earned an associate degree at Naugatuck Valley Community College and a bachelor's degree at Southern Connecticut State University.
Hayes went on to earn a master's degree in curriculum and instruction at the University of Saint Joseph in 2012 and a Sixth-Year Diploma from the University of Bridgeport School of Education in 2014. She and her husband, Milford, a police detective, live in Wolcott with their four children.
Jahana Hayes's first job was at the Southbury Training School in Connecticut, and she went on to teach government and history at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury.
She was named John F. Kennedy Teacher of the Year and Waterbury School District Educator of the Year in 2015, and National Teacher of the Year in 2016.
In 2018 she won the Democratic primary for the 5th district on August 14, defeating Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman 62% to 38%, and then defeated Republican Manny Santos to become the first Black woman elected to represent Connecticut in Congress.
Hayes was sworn in on January 3, 2019, and was re-elected in 2020 with 55.1% of the vote, in 2022 by a margin of 0.8% over Republican state Senator George Logan, and in 2024 in a rematch with Logan. In the 119th Congress she serves on the Committee on Agriculture, where she is ranking member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, and on the Committee on Education and Workforce.
Connecticut's 5th congressional district lies in the northwestern part of the state and includes Danbury and Waterbury, and Jahana Hayes is the Democratic incumbent, re-elected with 53.4% of the vote in 2024.
She is again her party's nominee after Winter Solomita and filmmaker Jackson Taddeo-Waite were eliminated at the Democratic convention. The Republican nominee is Chris Shea, a firefighter, who won the Republican primary with 81.0% of the vote against nonprofit founder Jonathan De Barros.
Hayes faces Shea in the general election on November 3, 2026.
