Vermont 2022 Election Results

Vermont held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 180 legislative seats across 125 districts and 6 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Vermonters split their tickets again, reelecting a Republican governor by his widest margin yet while giving Democrats and Progressives a veto-proof House supermajority to match the one they kept in the Senate. Before the election, Democrats and Progressives together had been one vote short of the 100 House votes needed to override a veto.
• Gov. Phil Scott (R) won a fourth term over Brenda Siegel (D) by about 47 points, carrying every Vermont town with nearly 71% of the vote.
• Down the ballot, Democrats won every other statewide race:
  • David Zuckerman (P/D) beat Joe Benning (R) for lieutenant governor by about 11 points, the tightest statewide contest.
  • Charity Clark (D) became the first woman elected attorney general, defeating Michael Tagliavia (R). Scott had filled the office by appointment after TJ Donovan resigned.
  • Sarah Copeland Hanzas (D) won the open secretary of state's office, Michael Pieciak (D) won the open treasurer's office, and Auditor Doug Hoffer (D) was reelected, each with about 65%.
• The legislative gains came in the first election on new district maps:
  • House: Democrats won their largest House caucus ever, and the most seats for any party since 1966. Carl Demrow (D) unseated Rep. Samantha Lefebvre (R) in Orange-1, and Robin Chesnut-Tangerman (D) unseated Rep. Sally Achey (R) in Rutland-Bennington. Redistricting also paired two incumbents in Orleans-4, where Rep. Katherine Sims (D) beat Rep. Vicki Strong (R) by about 22 points. Not every Democratic incumbent survived: Rep. Michael Nigro (D) finished third in two-seat Bennington-5.
  • Senate: Democrats and Progressives kept their supermajority. Republicans picked up a seat in the three-member Rutland district, where David Weeks (R) edged Anna Tadio (D) by about 250 votes, but Irene Wrenner (D) won the new Chittenden-North district over Rep. Leland Morgan (R), a seat widely assumed to be a safe Republican pickup.
  • Recounts: three close House races, in Rutland-2, Grand Isle-Chittenden, and Bennington-1, went to recounts that confirmed the election-night winners.
• Recruitment helped: Republicans fielded far fewer House candidates than Democrats and Progressives combined. In 36 legislative districts only one candidate appeared on the ballot, most of them Democrats.
• Voters approved both constitutional amendments by wide margins. Proposal 5 added a right to personal reproductive autonomy after drawing more spending than any other statewide race outside federal contests, and Proposal 2 removed the constitution's exceptions to its ban on slavery and indentured servitude.

Legislature

• House (150 seats): 92 D, 46 R, 12 other or vacant before the election, 104 D, 38 R, 8 other or vacant after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (30 seats): 21 D, 7 R, 2 other or vacant before the election, 22 D, 7 R, 1 other or vacant after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures