Tag: vermont
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Seven presidential tickets will appear on the ballot in Vermont this November
Vermont’s Nov. 5, 2024, general election ballot will feature seven presidential candidates and their running mates. They are: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., running as an independent, withdrew from the presidential election in August, but will still appear on Vermont’s ballot as the We the People party’s presidential nominee. There are 14 fewer candidates on Vermont’s…
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Vermont Senate veto-proof supermajority on the line in Nov. 5 elections
Elections for the Vermont State Senate will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 13, 2024. The filing deadline was May 30, 2024. All 30 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 21 seats and Republicans hold seven. Vermont is one of 29 states where one…
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Vermont House veto-proof supermajorty on the line in Nov. 5 elections
Elections for the Vermont House of Representatives will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 13, 2024. The filing deadline was May 30, 2024. All 150 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 107 seats and Republicans hold 37. Vermont is one of 29 states where one party has large…
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A look at Vermont’s 2024 state legislative primaries
Vermont has 25 contested state legislative primaries on August 13. In elections from 2010 to 2022, the average number of contested state legislative primaries was 18.1. There are 17 contested Democratic primaries and eight contested Republican primaries in 2024. That is the largest number of contested Republican primaries since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2010. The…
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Two candidates are running for Vermont’s At-Large U.S. House seat—the fewest since 2016
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Vermont was May 30, 2024. Two candidates are running for Vermont’s one U.S. House district—one Democrat and one Republican. Seven candidates ran in 2022, six candidates ran in 2020, and five ran in 2018. Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings: Vermont and…
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Six candidates file to appear on Vermont’s Democratic presidential primary ballot
The filing deadline for the Vermont Democratic presidential primary passed on Dec. 15, 2023. Six candidates filed to appear on the March 5, 2024, ballot. In order to file, candidates had to pay a $2,000 filing fee and submit a petition containing 1,000 signatures. The following candidates filed: Biden, Gabriel Cornejo, Frankie Lozada, Stephen Lyons,…
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Six candidates file to appear on Vermont’s Republican presidential primary ballot
The filing deadline for the Vermont Republican presidential primary passed on Dec. 15, 2023. Six candidates filed to appear on the March 5, 2024, ballot. In order to file, candidates had to pay a $2,000 filing fee and submit a petition containing 1,000 signatures. The following candidates filed: Binkley, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Christie,…
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Voters in Burlington, Vermont, and Redondo Beach, California, approve ranked-choice voting measures
Voters in Burlington, Vermont, and Redondo Beach, California approved ranked-choice voting measures in local elections on March 7. Burlington Question 6 was approved with 64.4% of the vote. The measure amended the city’s charter to adopt ranked-choice voting for elections for the mayor, school commissioners, and ward election officers. Before Question 6, the candidate receiving…
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Voters in Burlington, Vermont, to decide on ballot measures related to policing, ranked-choice voting, noncitizen voting, and more
On March 7, 2023, voters in Burlington, Vermont, will decide on at least seven ballot measures—five of which were placed on the ballot by the Burlington City Council, and two which were placed on the ballot by citizen initiative. The council-referred measures are as follows: A charter amendment that would allow non-citizens who are legal…
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Three states to have veto-proof legislative majority and governor of the opposing party
Two of four states heading into the 2022 elections that had a veto-proof legislative majority and governor of the opposing party—Kentucky and Kansas—maintained that status after the elections. Vermont became a state with a veto-proof legislative majority and opposing-party governor as a result of the 2022 elections. Maryland and Massachusetts will no longer have a veto-proof legislative majority and governor…