2024 Vermont Senate election

2024 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 Philip Baruth Randy Brock Tanya Vyhovsky
(de facto)
Party Democratic Republican Progressive
Leader since November 13, 2022 January 6, 2021 January 6, 2023
Leader's seat Chittenden Central Franklin Chittenden Central
Last election 22 seats 7 seats 1 seat
Seats before 22 7 1
Seats won 16 13 1
Seat change Decrease 6 Increase 6 Steady

Results:
     Republican gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold      Progressive hold

President pro tempore before election

Philip Baruth
Democratic/Progressive

Elected President pro tempore

TBD

The 2024 Vermont Senate election took place on November 5, 2024, 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. State senators serve two-year terms in the Vermont Senate. Primary elections were held on August 13, 2024.[1]

Vermont voters elected all 30 state senators from 16 districts, with each district electing between one and three senators. Districts that elect more than one senator use plurality block voting; in districts that elect two senators, each voter can select up to two candidates on their ballot, and in districts that elect three senators, voters can select up to three candidates. Under Vermont's electoral fusion system, candidates can receive the nomination of more than one party, with all their nominations being listed on the ballot.

Prior to the election, the Democrat–Progressive coalition held a 23-seat supermajority in the senate. In order to gain control of the chamber, Republicans either needed to flip nine seats in the senate, or flip eight seats and the office of lieutenant governor, which presides over the senate and acts as the tiebreaking vote. However, they only needed to flip four seats to end their opponents' supermajority. Ultimately, Republicans, aided by popular GOP governor Phil Scott campaigning for downballot Republican candidates harder than he had in previous years, flipped six seats in the state senate, thus successfully breaking the Democrats' supermajority.[2]

  1. ^ "Vermont State Senate elections, 2024". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  2. ^ Weinstein, Ethan (November 5, 2024). "Republicans flip six seats in the Vermont Senate, shattering Democratic supermajority". VTDigger. Retrieved November 10, 2024.