Political Party Strength In Vermont
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Vermont:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- State Auditor of Accounts
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Anti-Masonic (AM), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Federalist (F), Independent (I), no party (N), National Republican (NR), National Union (NU), Republican (R), Vermont Progressive (VP), and Whig (W).
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | State Treasurer | State Auditor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
| 1778 | Thomas Chittenden (N) | Joseph Marsh (N) | Not elected | No office | Ira Allen (N) | Not elected | ||||||
| 1779 | Benjamin Carpenter (N) | |||||||||||
| 1780 | ||||||||||||
| 1781 | Elisha Payne (N) | |||||||||||
| 1782 | Paul Spooner (N) | |||||||||||
| 1783 | ||||||||||||
| 1784 | ||||||||||||
| 1785 | ||||||||||||
| 1786 | Samuel Mattocks (N) | |||||||||||
| 1787 | Joseph Marsh (N) | |||||||||||
| 1788 | ||||||||||||
| 1789 | Moses Robinson (N) | |||||||||||
| 1790 | Thomas Chittenden (N) | Peter Olcott (N) | Samuel Hitchcock | |||||||||
| 1791 | Thomas Chittenden (N) | |||||||||||
| 1792 | ||||||||||||
| 1793 | Daniel Buck | |||||||||||
| 1794 | Jonathan Hunt (N) | |||||||||||
| 1795 | vacant | |||||||||||
| 1796 | Paul Brigham (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1797 | Paul Brigham (DR) | vacant | No office | |||||||||
| Isaac Tichenor (F) | Paul Brigham (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1798 | ||||||||||||
| 1799 | ||||||||||||
| 1800 | Benjamin Swan (I) | |||||||||||
| 1801 | ||||||||||||
| 1802 | ||||||||||||
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| 1804 | ||||||||||||
| 1805 | ||||||||||||
| 1806 | ||||||||||||
| 1807 | Israel Smith (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1808 | Isaac Tichenor (F) | |||||||||||
| 1809 | Jonas Galusha (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1810 | ||||||||||||
| 1811 | ||||||||||||
| 1812 | ||||||||||||
| 1813 | Martin Chittenden (F) | William Chamberlin (F) | ||||||||||
| 1814 | ||||||||||||
| 1815 | Jonas Galusha (DR) | Paul Brigham (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1816 | ||||||||||||
| 1817 | ||||||||||||
| 1818 | ||||||||||||
| 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 1820 | Richard Skinner (DR) | William Cahoon (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1821 | ||||||||||||
| 1822 | Aaron Leland (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1823 | Cornelius P. Van Ness (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1824 | ||||||||||||
| 1825 | ||||||||||||
| 1826 | Ezra Butler (NR) | |||||||||||
| 1827 | Henry Olin (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1828 | Samuel C. Crafts (NR) | |||||||||||
| 1829 | ||||||||||||
| 1830 | Mark Richards (NR) | |||||||||||
| 1831 | William A. Palmer (AM) | Lebbeus Egerton (AM) | ||||||||||
| 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 1833 | Augustine Clark (AM) | |||||||||||
| 1834 | ||||||||||||
| 1835 | vacant | Silas H. Jennison (W/AM) | ||||||||||
| 1836 | Silas H. Jennison (W) | David M. Camp (W) | ||||||||||
| 1837 | vacant | |||||||||||
| 1838 | Henry F. Janes (W) | |||||||||||
| 1839 | ||||||||||||
| 1840 | ||||||||||||
| 1841 | Charles Paine (W) | Waitstill R. Ranney (W) | John Spaulding (W) | |||||||||
| 1842 | ||||||||||||
| 1843 | John Mattocks (W) | Horace Eaton (W) | ||||||||||
| 1844 | William Slade (W) | |||||||||||
| 1845 | ||||||||||||
| 1846 | Horace Eaton (W) | Leonard Sargent (W) | Elisha P. Jewett (W) | |||||||||
| 1847 | George Howes (W) | |||||||||||
| 1848 | Carlos Coolidge (W) | Robert Pierpoint (W) | ||||||||||
| 1849 | ||||||||||||
| 1850 | Charles K. Williams (W) | Julius Converse (W) | ||||||||||
| 1851 | ||||||||||||
| 1852 | Erastus Fairbanks (W) | William C. Kittredge (W) | ||||||||||
| 1853 | John S. Robinson (D) | Jefferson P. Kidder (D) | John A. Page (D) | |||||||||
| 1854 | Stephen Royce (R) | Ryland Fletcher (R) | Henry M. Bates (R) | |||||||||
| 1855 | ||||||||||||
| 1856 | Ryland Fletcher (R) | James M. Slade (R) | ||||||||||
| 1857 | ||||||||||||
| 1858 | Hiland Hall (R) | Burnam Martin (R) | ||||||||||
| 1859 | ||||||||||||
| 1860 | Erastus Fairbanks (R) | Levi Underwood (R) | John B. Page (R) | |||||||||
| 1861 | Frederick Holbrook (R) | |||||||||||
| 1862 | Paul Dillingham (R/NU) | |||||||||||
| 1863 | J. Gregory Smith (R) | |||||||||||
| 1864 | ||||||||||||
| 1865 | Paul Dillingham (R) | Abraham B. Gardner (R) | ||||||||||
| 1866 | John A. Page (R) | |||||||||||
| 1867 | John B. Page (R) | Stephen Thomas (R) | ||||||||||
| 1868 | ||||||||||||
| 1869 | Peter T. Washburn (R) | George Whitman Hendee (R) | ||||||||||
| 1870 | George Whitman Hendee (R) | vacant | ||||||||||
| John W. Stewart (R) | George N. Dale (R) | |||||||||||
| 1871 | ||||||||||||
| 1872 | Julius Converse (R) | Russell S. Taft (R) | ||||||||||
| 1873 | ||||||||||||
| 1874 | Asahel Peck (R) | Lyman G. Hinckley (R) | ||||||||||
| 1875 | ||||||||||||
| 1876 | Horace Fairbanks (R) | Redfield Proctor (R) | ||||||||||
| 1877 | ||||||||||||
| 1878 | Redfield Proctor (R) | Eben Pomeroy Colton (R) | ||||||||||
| 1879 | ||||||||||||
| 1880 | Roswell Farnham (R) | John L. Barstow (R) | ||||||||||
| 1881 | ||||||||||||
| 1882 | John L. Barstow (R) | Samuel E. Pingree (R) | William H. DuBois (R) | |||||||||
| 1883 | ||||||||||||
| 1884 | Samuel E. Pingree (R) | Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (R) | George Nichols (R) | E. Henry Powell (R) | ||||||||
| 1885 | Charles W. Porter (R) | |||||||||||
| 1886 | Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (R) | Levi K. Fuller (R) | ||||||||||
| 1887 | ||||||||||||
| 1888 | William P. Dillingham (R) | Urban A. Woodbury (R) | ||||||||||
| 1888 | ||||||||||||
| 1890 | Carroll S. Page (R) | Henry A. Fletcher (R) | Chauncey W. Brownell (R) | Henry F. Field (R) | ||||||||
| 1891 | ||||||||||||
| 1892 | Levi K. Fuller (R) | F. Stewart Stranahan (R) | Franklin D. Hale (R) | |||||||||
| 1893 | ||||||||||||
| 1894 | Urban A. Woodbury (R) | Zophar M. Mansur (R) | ||||||||||
| 1895 | ||||||||||||
| 1896 | Josiah Grout (R) | Nelson W. Fisk (R) | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||
| 1897 | ||||||||||||
| 1898 | Edward Curtis Smith (R) | Henry C. Bates (R) | Fred A. Howland (R) | John L. Bacon (R) | Orion M. Barber (R) | |||||||
| 1899 | ||||||||||||
| 1900 | William W. Stickney (R) | Martin F. Allen (R) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||
| 1901 | ||||||||||||
| 1902 | John G. McCullough (R) | Zed S. Stanton (R) | Frederick G. Fleetwood (R) | Horace F. Graham (R) | ||||||||
| 1903 | ||||||||||||
| 1904 | Charles J. Bell (R) | Charles H. Stearns (R) | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||
| 1905 | ||||||||||||
| 1906 | Fletcher D. Proctor (R) | George H. Prouty (R) | Clarke C. Fitts (R) | Edward H. Deavitt (R) | ||||||||
| 1907 | ||||||||||||
| 1908 | George H. Prouty (R) | John A. Mead (R) | Guy W. Bailey (R) | John G. Sargent (R) | William H. Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||
| 1909 | ||||||||||||
| 1910 | John A. Mead (R) | Leighton P. Slack (R) | ||||||||||
| 1911 | ||||||||||||
| 1912 | Allen M. Fletcher (R) | Frank E. Howe (R) | Rufus E. Brown (R) | William H. Taft and Nicholas Murray Butler (R) | ||||||||
| 1913 | ||||||||||||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||
| 1915 | Charles W. Gates (R) | Hale K. Darling (R) | Herbert G. Barber (R) | Walter F. Scott (R) | ||||||||
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||
| 1917 | Horace F. Graham (R) | Roger W. Hulburd (R) | Frederick G. Fleetwood (R) | Benjamin Gates (R) | ||||||||
| 1918 | ||||||||||||
| 1919 | Percival W. Clement (R) | Mason S. Stone (R) | Harry A. Black (R) | Frank C. Archibald (R) | ||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
| 1921 | James Hartness R) | Abram W. Foote (R) | ||||||||||
| 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | Redfield Proctor, Jr. (R) | Franklin S. Billings (R) | Thomas H. Cave (R) | Porter H. Dale (R) | ||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
| 1925 | Franklin S. Billings (R) | Walter K. Farnsworth (R) | Aaron H. Grout (R) | |||||||||
| 1926 | J. Ward Carver (R) | |||||||||||
| 1927 | John E. Weeks (R) | Hollister Jackson (R) | Rawson C. Myrick (R) | |||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||||
| 1929 | Stanley C. Wilson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 1931 | Stanley C. Wilson (R) | Benjamin Williams (R) | Lawrence C. Jones (R) | Warren R. Austin (R) | ||||||||
| 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 1933 | Charles Manley Smith (R) | |||||||||||
| 1934 | Ernest Willard Gibson (R) | Charles A. Plumley (R) | ||||||||||
| 1935 | Charles Manley Smith (R) | George David Aiken (R) | ||||||||||
| 1936 | Alf Landon and Frank Knox (R) | |||||||||||
| 1937 | George David Aiken (R) | William Henry Wills (R) | ||||||||||
| 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 1940 | Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. (R) | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) | ||||||||||
| 1941 | William Henry Wills (R) | Mortimer R. Proctor (R) | Alban J. Parker (R) | David V. Anderson (R) | George David Aiken (R) | |||||||
| 1942 | ||||||||||||
| 1943 | Levi R. Kelly (R) | |||||||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John Bricker (R) | |||||||||||
| 1945 | Mortimer R. Proctor (R) | Lee E. Emerson (R) | ||||||||||
| 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. (R) | Helen F. Burbank (R) | Clifton G. Parker (R) | Ralph E. Flanders (R) | ||||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | |||||||||||
| 1949 | Harold J. Arthur (R) | Howard E. Armstrong (R) | George H. Amindon (R) | |||||||||
| 1950 | Harold J. Arthur (R) | vacant | ||||||||||
| 1951 | Lee E. Emerson (R) | Joseph B. Johnson (R) | Winston L. Prouty (R) | |||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon (R) | |||||||||||
| 1953 | F. Elliot Barber (R) | |||||||||||
| 1954 | ||||||||||||
| 1955 | Joseph B. Johnson (R) | Consuelo N. Bailey (R) | Robert T. Stafford (R) | |||||||||
| 1956 | ||||||||||||
| 1957 | Robert T. Stafford (R) | Frederick M. Reed (R) | ||||||||||
| 1958 | ||||||||||||
| 1959 | Robert T. Stafford (R) | Robert S. Babcock (R) | Winston L. Prouty (R) | William H. Meyer(D) | ||||||||
| 1960 | Thomas M. Debevoise (R) | Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) | ||||||||||
| 1961 | F. Ray Keyser, Jr. (R) | Ralph A. Foote (R) | Robert T. Stafford(R) | |||||||||
| 1962 | Charles J. Adams (R) | |||||||||||
| 1963 | Philip H. Hoff (D) | Charles E. Gibson (R) | ||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||
| 1965 | John J. Daley (D) | Harry H. Cooley (D) | John P. Connan (D) | Peter J. Hincks (D) | Jay H. Gordon (D) | 95R, 50D, 1I | ||||||
| 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | James L. Oakes (R) | 93R, 55D, 2I | ||||||||||
| 1968 | Madelyn Davidson (D) | Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | ||||||||||
| 1969 | Deane C. Davis (R) | Thomas L. Hayes (R) | Richard C. Thomas (R) | Jim Jeffords (R) | Frank H. Davis (R) | Robert T. King (R) | 100R, 50D | |||||
| 1970 | ||||||||||||
| 1971 | John S. Burgess (R) | Alexander V. Acebo (R) | 98R, 52D | Robert T. Stafford (R) | Richard W. Mallary (R) | |||||||
| 1972 | ||||||||||||
| 1973 | Thomas P. Salmon (D) | Kimberly B. Cheney (R) | 91R, 58D, 1I | |||||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | Brian D. Burns (D) | M. Jerome Diamond (D) | Stella Hackel (D) | 78R, 70D, 2I | Patrick Leahy (D) | Jim Jeffords (R) | ||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | |||||||||||
| 1977 | Richard A. Snelling (R) | T. Garry Buckley (R) | James A. Guest (D) | Emory A. Hebard (R) | 75D, 74R, 1I | |||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | Madeleine M. Kunin (D) | 81R, 68D, 1I | ||||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | Jim Douglas (R) | John J. Easton, Jr. (R) | 84R, 64D, 1I | |||||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||||||
| 1983 | Peter Plympton Smith (R) | 84R, 65D, 1I | ||||||||||
| 1984 | ||||||||||||
| 1985 | Madeleine M. Kunin (D) | Jeffrey L. Amestoy (R) | 77R, 72D, 1I | |||||||||
| 1986 | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | Howard Dean (D) | 18D, 12R | 76D, 74R | |||||||||
| 1988 | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||
| 1989 | Paul W. Ruse Jr. (D) | 16D, 14R | 75R, 75D | Jim Jeffords (R) | Peter Plympton Smith (R) | |||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Richard A. Snelling (R) | 15D, 15R | 75R, 73D, 2I | Bernie Sanders (I) | ||||||||
| 1992 | Howard Dean (D) | vacant | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | |||||||||
| 1993 | Barbara W. Snelling (R) | Donald M. Hooper (D) | Edward S. Flanagan (D) | 16R, 14D | 86D, 57R, 6I | |||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | James F. Milne (R) | Jim Douglas (R) | 18R, 12D | 86D, 61R, 3I | ||||||||
| 1996 | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Douglas A. Racine (D) | William Sorrell (D) | 17D, 13R | 89D, 57R, 4I | ||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Deborah Markowitz (D) | 77D, 67R, 6I | ||||||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Elizabeth M. Ready (D) | 16D, 14R | 83R, 62D, 5I | Jim Jeffords (I) | ||||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Jim Douglas (R) | Brian Dubie (R) | Jeb Spaulding (D) | 19D, 11R | 74R, 69D, 4VP, 3I | |||||||
| 2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Randy Brock (R) | 21D, 9R | 83D, 60R, 6VP, 1I | |||||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Thomas M. Salmon (D) | 23D, 7R | 93D, 49R, 6VP, 2I | Bernie Sanders (I) | Peter Welch (D) | |||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | |||||||||||
| 2009 | Thomas M. Salmon (R) | 95D, 48R, 5VP, 2I | ||||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Peter Shumlin (D) | Phil Scott (R) | Jim Condos (D) | Beth Pearce (D) | 20D, 8R, 2VP | 93D, 49R, 5VP, 3I | ||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Doug Hoffer (D) | 21D, 7R, 2VP | 98D, 44R, 4VP, 4I | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | State Treasurer | State Auditor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||
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