The Hartford Courant's Matthew Kauffman reports:
Shortly after 9:45 p.m., the crowd erupted in cheers as the image of Lamont appeared on television screens for his concession speech.
"I called up Dan a few minutes ago and I congratulated him," Lamont said, and from there, the howls from the crowd at Malloy's party drowned out the television speakers.
The volume then grew to a deafening roar as Malloy and Wyman arrived.
"Let me start by saying if I had known it was going to turn out this way, I would have gotten a bigger room," a smiling Malloy told the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd.
Malloy said he would work to unite Democrats and attract independents and Republicans, calling on voters to join him "if you believe that we can recreate our state, that we can grow jobs, that we can do battle with electric rates, that we can make sure that Connecticut becomes the success that we all dream it can be."