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The 1826 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 5, 1826. [1] It resulted in the election of Ezra Butler to a one-year term as governor. [2]
The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 12. [2] The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council. [2] The committee determined that Ezra Butler had won a one-year term. [2]
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Aaron Leland had won election to a fifth one-year term. [2] Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Leland, 7,749 (61.9%); Henry Olin, 4,331 (34.7%); Scattering, 431 (3.4%). [3]
Benjamin Swan had no opposition for election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-seventh. [2] Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed. [4]
The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows: [2]