2022 Vermont Senate election

2022 Vermont Senate election

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All 30 seats in the Vermont Senate
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Becca Balint
(retired)
Randy Brock Anthony Pollina
(retired)
Party Democratic Republican Progressive
Leader since January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021 2013
Leader's seat Windham Franklin Washington
Last election 21 seats, 53.7% 7 seats, 34.7% 2 seats, 6.3%
Seats before 21 7 2
Seats won 22 7 1
Seat change Increase 1 Steady Decrease 1
Popular vote 365,882 165,921 12,377
Percentage 65.1% 29.5% 2.2%

Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
     Progressive hold

President pro tempore before election

Becca Balint
Democratic

Elected President pro tempore

Phil Baruth
Democratic/Progressive

The 2022 Vermont Senate election took place on November 8, 2022, as part of the biennial United States elections. The election coincided with elections for other offices including the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governor, and State House. Vermont voters elected all 30 state senators from 16 districts, with each district electing between one and three senators. State senators serve two-year terms in the Vermont Senate. Primary elections were held on August 9, 2022.[1][2] This election would be the first to use new districts adopted by the Vermont General Assembly to allocate for population changes across the state after the 2020 census.[3]

Democrats and Progressives retained their combined 23-seat supermajority. Because Democrats and Progressives simultaneously won a supermajority in the Vermont House of Representatives for the first time ever, this meant that they could pass bills that were vetoed by Republican governor Phil Scott. Republicans lost one seat during redistricting, as Joe Benning's Caledonia County seat was eliminated, but they made up for this loss by gaining a seat from Democrats in Rutland County. Democrats still managed a net gain of one seat, as they won the newly created Chittenden North district and gained a seat from Progressives in Washington County. This left newly elected senator Tanya Vyhovsky as the only Progressive in the Senate, although four of the elected Democrats were also nominated by the Progressive Party and appeared on the ballot as "Democratic/Progressive."[4]

  1. ^ "General Election Candidates". Jim Condos, Vermont Secretary of State. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  2. ^ "Vermont State Senate elections, 2022". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  3. ^ "State of Vermont Senate Districts, 2022" (PDF). Vermont General Assembly. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  4. ^ "Democrats and Progressives hold their 23-seat supermajority in the Vermont Senate".