Vermont Democratic Party

Vermont Democratic Party
Chairperson	David Glidden
Lieutenant Governor	David Zuckerman
Senate President pro tempore	Philip Baruth
House Speaker	Jill Krowinski
Founded	1830
Headquarters	Montpelier, Vermont
Ideology	Modern liberalism
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Colors	Blue
U.S. Senate Seats[a]	1 / 2
U.S. House Seats	1 / 1
Statewide Offices	5 / 6
State Senate	22 / 30
State House	105 / 150
Elected County Judges	33 / 42
Countywide Offices	34 / 42
Mayoralties	2 / 8
Seats on the Burlington City Council	5 / 12
Website
www.vtdemocrats.org
Politics of Vermont Elections

The Vermont Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Vermont.

Since the founding of the Republican Party until the 1960s, Vermont was an almost exclusively Republican state, with Republicans dominating Vermont politics, especially the governorship, from 1854 to 1960.^[1] However, perhaps inspired by the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, Vermont Democrats have since staged a resurgence in state politics.^[2]

It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling Vermont's at-large U.S. House seat, one of the U.S. Senate seats, and has supermajorites in both houses of the state legislature. Vermont's other U.S. Senate seat is held by Bernie Sanders, an independent whom caucuses with the Democratic Party. The only statewide office that the party does not currently control is the governorship, which is currently held by Republican Phil Scott.

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