2022 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

2022 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont's at-large district

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Nominee Becca Balint Liam Madden
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 176,494 78,397
Percentage 60.45% 26.85%

Balint:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Madden:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%
     No votes

U.S. Representative before election

Peter Welch
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

Becca Balint
Democratic

The 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the U.S. representative from Vermont's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the U.S. Senate, as well as various other state and local elections.

Incumbent Democrat Peter Welch was re-elected with 67.3% of the vote in 2020. After eight-term U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy announced he would retire on November 15, some speculated that Welch might decline to seek re-election and instead seek election to the Senate.[1] On November 22, 2021, Welch announced his candidacy for Leahy's seat, creating the first open U.S. House seat in Vermont since Bernie Sanders ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006.[2]

Democratic nominee Becca Balint won the election in a landslide, becoming the first elected female member of the United States Congress in the state's history. Her main opponent in the general election, Liam Madden, won the Republican nomination but identifies as an independent who opposes the two-party system.[3] Madden stated that he would not caucus with House Republicans if elected to Congress; the Vermont Republican Party later disavowed his campaign.[4] Ericka Redic, who lost the Republican primary to Madden, ran in the general election as the nominee of the Libertarian Party.[5]

Vermont was the last remaining state that had never elected a woman to the United States Congress after Mississippi elected its first woman in 2018. With Balint's victory, every U.S. state has now been represented in Congress by a woman at some point.

  1. ^ Allison, Natalie (November 15, 2021). "Leahy, most senior senator, will retire". POLITICO. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  2. ^ Forgey, Quint (November 22, 2021). "Rep. Peter Welch launches Senate bid for Leahy's seat". Politico. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  3. ^ "Madden 'up in the air' about accepting GOP nomination for US House". WCAX-TV. August 9, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Cutler, Calvin (August 15, 2022). "Vermont GOP will not support Liam Madden for US House". WCAX. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  5. ^ Weinstein, Ethan (August 11, 2022). "Ericka Redic, runner-up in Republican primary, running for U.S. House as a Libertarian". VTDigger. Retrieved August 17, 2022.

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