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The 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 4, 1827. [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 11. [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 election to a second one-year term. [2]
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Henry Olin had won election to a one-year term. [2] Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Olin, 9,411 (67.5%); Samuel C. Crafts, 2,667 (19.1%); Israel P. Dana, 1,865 (13.4%). [3]
Benjamin Swan won election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-eighth. [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] According to a contemporary news account, Swan was chosen nearly unanimously, with no major opposition and only 17 votes scattering. [3]
The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows: [2]