A Connecticut Party was a political party formed by former Republican senator and gubernatorial candidate Lowell Weicker in 1990. Weicker announced his run for Connecticut Governor as a third-party candidate on March 2, 1990. On April 16, he formally unveiled the name of his party as A Connecticut Party. Weicker subsequently won the 1990 gubernatorial election and served a single term as governor of Connecticut. The party was intentionally named to fall alphabetically first on the ballot among the minor parties, with the Republican and Democratic parties not listed alphabetically.