 Roraback won 32% of the votes cast, exceeding his nearest opponent by 5 percentage points.Roraback secured general election endorsements from numerous newspapers across the state, including the "Register-Citizen", Danbury's "News Times", Waterbury's "Republican American", the "Litchfield County Times", the "New Haven Register", and the "Housatonic Times".In the general election, Roraback was defeated by Elizabeth Esty, a Democrat who had been a one-term member (for the 103rd Assembly District) of the Connecticut House of Representatives.