This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Vermont was May 28, 2026.

This year has the third-fewest number of candidates since 2014. Three candidates — one Democrat and two Republicans — are running for Vermont’s At-Large Congressional District. Two candidates ran in 2024, seven in 2022, six in 2020, five in 2018, one in 2016, and four in 2014.

Incumbent Rep. Becca Balint (D) is running for re-election this year, marking the sixth time since 2014 that the District has not been open. The only year the District was open during that period was 2022.

Balint is also not running in a contested primary. Since 2014, there have only been two years in which the District’s incumbent ran in a contested primary — 2018 and 2020.

However, the Republican primary is contested this year. In total, there were no contested primaries in 2024, two in 2022, two in 2020, two in 2018, none in 2016, and one in 2014.

Candidates filed to run in both the Republican and Democratic primaries in the District, meaning the District is not guaranteed to either party.

Vermont and four other states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin — are holding U.S. House primaries on Aug. 11, 2026.

In Vermont, primary winners are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if they did not win an outright majority of votes cast.