Vermont Democratic Party

Vermont Democratic Party
ChairpersonDavid Glidden
Lieutenant GovernorDavid Zuckerman
Senate President pro temporePhilip Baruth
House SpeakerJill Krowinski
Founded1830
HeadquartersMontpelier, Vermont
IdeologyModern liberalism
National affiliationDemocratic Party
Colors  Blue
U.S. Senate Seats[a]
1 / 2
U.S. House Seats
1 / 1
Statewide Offices
5 / 6
State Senate
22 / 30
State House
105 / 150
Elected County Judges
33 / 42
Countywide Offices
34 / 42
Mayoralties
2 / 8
Seats on the Burlington City Council
5 / 12
Website
www.vtdemocrats.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Vermont Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Vermont.

Since the founding of the Republican Party until the 1960s, Vermont was almost exclusively a Republican state, with Republicans dominating Vermont politics, especially the governorship, from 1854 to 1960.[1] But Democrats have since staged a resurgence in state politics, perhaps inspired by the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960.[2]

It is now the dominant party in the state, controlling Vermont's at-large U.S. House seat, one of its U.S. Senate seats, and supermajorites in both houses of the state legislature. Vermont's other U.S. Senate seat is held by Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party. The only statewide office the party does not control is the governorship, held by Republican Phil Scott.


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  1. ^ Appleton, Andrew & Ward, Daniel. "State Party Profiles". Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1997. p. 324.
  2. ^ In 1962, Philip Henderson Hoff (born June 29, 1924) became the first Democrat elected Governor of Vermont in 108 years, and held the office from 1963 to 1969