Vermont's at-large congressional district

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox U.S. congressional district

Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat, obsoleting its 1st and 2nd congressional districts. There were once six districts in Vermont, all of which were eliminated after various censuses.

Bernie Sanders (Independent) held the seat from 1991 until 2007, when he became a U.S. senator. Democrat Peter Welch, who succeeded Sanders in 2007, represented the state until 2023, when he was elected to succeed Patrick Leahy in the Senate. Progressive Democrat Becca Balint was elected to succeed Welch in the House for the 118th Congress. Balint is the first woman and LGBT person to represent Vermont, making Vermont the last state to be represented in Congress by a woman.

List of members representing the district

Vermont has elected its representatives at-large from 1813 to 1821, beginning with the 13th Congress; 1823 to 1825, with the 18th Congress; and from 1933 to the present, beginning with the 73rd Congress, after being reduced to one representative as a result of the 1930 census. In all other years, Vermont elected its representatives from separate districts.

All members were elected statewide at-large on a general ticket.

13th Congress (1813–1815)

14th Congress (1815–1817)

15th Congress (1817–1819)

16th Congress (1819–1821)

18th Congress (1823–1825)

1933–present: one seat

After the 1930 United States census, Vermont was reduced to one seat, which has continued ever since.

Representative Party Years Cong
ress 		Electoral history
District re-established March 4, 1933

Ernest W. Gibson
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican March 4, 1933 –
October 19, 1933 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1932.
Resigned when appointed U.S. senator.
Vacant October 19, 1933 –
January 16, 1934

Charles A. Plumley
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 16, 1934 –
January 3, 1951 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected to finish Gibson's term.
Re-elected in 1934.
Re-elected in 1936.
Re-elected in 1938.
Re-elected in 1940.
Re-elected in 1942.
Re-elected in 1944.
Re-elected in 1946.
Re-elected in 1948.
Retired.

Winston L. Prouty
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 3, 1951 –
January 3, 1959 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1950.
Re-elected in 1952.
Re-elected in 1954.
Re-elected in 1956.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.

William H. Meyer
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic January 3, 1959 –
January 3, 1961 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1958.
Lost re-election.

Robert Stafford
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 3, 1961 –
September 16, 1971 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1960.
Re-elected in 1962.
Re-elected in 1964.
Re-elected in 1966.
Re-elected in 1968.
Re-elected in 1970.
Resigned when appointed U.S. senator.
Vacant September 16, 1971 –
January 7, 1972 		Template:USCongressOrdinal

Richard W. Mallary
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 7, 1972 –
January 3, 1975 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected to finish Stafford's term.
Re-elected in 1972.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.

Jim Jeffords
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 3, 1975 –
January 3, 1989 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1974.
Re-elected in 1976.
Re-elected in 1978.
Re-elected in 1980.
Re-elected in 1982.
Re-elected in 1984.
Re-elected in 1986.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.

Peter Plympton Smith
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican January 3, 1989 –
January 3, 1991 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1988.
Lost re-election.

Bernie Sanders
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Independent | Independent January 3, 1991 –
January 3, 2007 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 1990.
Re-elected in 1992.
Re-elected in 1994.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.

Peter Welch
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic January 3, 2007 –
January 3, 2023 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 2006.
Re-elected in 2008.
Re-elected in 2010.
Re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Re-elected in 2020.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.

Becca Balint
Template:Small 		Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic January 3, 2023 –
present 		Template:USCongressOrdinal Elected in 2022.
Re-elected in 2024.

Electoral history

1990

Independent Bernie Sanders defeated incumbent Republican Peter Plympton Smith.

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1992

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

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1994

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

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1996

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

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1998

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

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2000

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

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2002

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2004

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2006

Template:Further Incumbent Bernie Sanders retired to successfully run for a U.S. Senate seat.

Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Welch (D-Windsor County) was the Democratic nominee and the eventual winner.

Three candidates competed for the Republican nomination:

Rainville won the Republican primary on September 12, beating Shepard by a wide margin.

There were also numerous third party and independent candidates: Chris Karr (WTP), Bruce Marshall (Green Party), Dennis Morrisseau (Ind), Jane Newton (Liberty Union Party), Keith Stern (Ind), and Jerry Trudell (Ind). Morrisseau gathered the most votes, with 1% or 1,383 votes.

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On October 4, 2006, The Burlington Free Press reported that one of Rainville's staffers, Christopher Stewart, resigned from her campaign after committing plagiarism—copying policy statements from other politicians, including senator Hillary Clinton, and using them on Rainville's website. Rainville's website was off-line for some time while her staff removed the plagiarized passages.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore Alt URL</ref>

Welch beat Rainville 53% to 45%, or 139,585 votes to 117,211.

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2008

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2010

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2012

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2014

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2016

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2018

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2020

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2022

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2024

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Sources

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