2018 United States Senate election in Vermont

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2018 United States Senate election in Vermont
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Turnout55.57%
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Nominee Bernie Sanders Lawrence Zupan
Party Independent Republican
Popular vote183,64974,815
Percentage67.44%27.47%
2018 United States Senate election in Vermont results map by county.svg
2018 United States Senate election in Vermont results map by municipality.svg
Sanders:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
     70–80%     80–90%
Zupan:     40–50%     50–60%
Tie:     40–50%
U.S. Senator before election

Bernie Sanders
Independent

Elected U.S. Senator

Bernie Sanders
Independent

The 2018 United States Senate election in Vermont was held November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, U.S. House election, and other state and local elections. Incumbent independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected to a third term. [1] The primaries were held on August 14. [2]

Contents

Background

Two-term independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2012. Sanders, a candidate for president in the 2016 primary election and one of only three independent members of Congress, is a self-described democratic socialist. [3] [4]

Sanders has caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2007, and he is the Chairman of the Budget Committee. He was 77 years old in 2018. Sanders ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After failing to win the nomination, he announced that he would run for re-election for his Senate seat in 2018. [5]

Independents

Candidates

Endorsements

Bernie Sanders
Organizations

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

  • Folasade Adeluola, activist [14]

Not on ballot

  • Jon Svitavsky, homelessness activist [14]

Withdrawn

Results

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Results by county
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  •   Sanders—≥90%
  •   Sanders—80–90%
Democratic primary results [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Bernie Sanders (incumbent) 63,683 94.02%
Democratic Folasade Adeluola3,7665.56%
Write-in 2810.41%
Total votes67,730 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Lawrence Zupan, real estate broker [17]

Withdrew nomination

  • H. Brooke Paige, former CEO of Remmington News Service

Eliminated in primary

Did not file

Results

Results by county Map legend Paige--50-60% Paige--40-50% Paige--30-40% Zupan--30-40% Zupan--40-50% Zupan--50-60% Zupan--60-70% 2018 VT US Senate Republican primary.svg
Results by county
Map legend
  •   Paige—50–60%
  •   Paige—40–50%
  •   Paige—30–40%
  •   Zupan—30–40%
  •   Zupan—40–50%
  •   Zupan—50–60%
  •   Zupan—60–70%
Republican primary results [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican H. Brooke Paige 9,805 37.47%
Republican Lawrence Zupan9,38335.86%
Republican Jasdeep Pannu4,52717.30%
Republican Rocky De La Fuente 1,0574.04%
Write-in 1,3945.33%
Total votes26,166 100.00%

Post-primary

H. Brooke Paige, who also won the Republican nominations for U.S. House, state Attorney General, state Secretary of State, state Treasurer, and state Auditor, withdrew from all but the secretary of state race on August 24, in order to allow the Vermont Republican Party to name replacement candidates. [21] The Vermont Republican Party picked Lawrence Zupan, who came in 2nd place in the primary, to be the Republican nominee. [22]

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
CNN [23] Solid IJuly 12, 2018
Fox News [24] Likely* IJuly 9, 2018
RealClearPolitics [25] Safe IJune 6, 2018
The Cook Political Report [26] Solid IOctober 11, 2017
Inside Elections [27] Solid ISeptember 29, 2017
Sabato's Crystal Ball [28] Safe ISeptember 27, 2017

*Highest rating given

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Bernie
Sanders (I)		Lawrence
Zupan (R)		OtherUndecided
Gravis Marketing October 30 – November 1, 2018885± 3.3%66%30%–4%
Braun Research October 5–14, 2018495± 4.4%60%19%7% [29] 16%
Tulchin Research (D-Vermont Democratic Party) Archived October 2, 2018, at the Wayback Machine September 23–26, 2018406± 4.9%75%20%––

Results

Sanders won re-election with 67.4% of the vote against eight other candidates. [30]

United States Senate election in Vermont, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Bernie Sanders (incumbent) 183,649 67.44% −3.56%
Republican Lawrence Zupan74,81527.47%+2.57%
Independent Brad J. Peacock3,6651.35%N/A
Independent Russell Beste2,7631.02%N/A
Independent Edward S. Gilbert, Jr.2,2440.82%N/A
Independent Folasade Adeluola1,9790.73%N/A
Liberty Union Reid Kane1,1710.43%−0.43%
Independent Jon Svitavsky1,1300.42%N/A
Independent Bruce Busa9140.34%N/A
Write-in 2940.11%N/A
Total votes272,330 100.00% N/A
Independent hold

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