Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the

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, when the state lost its second seat, obsoleting its 1st and

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congressional districts. There were once six districts in Vermont, all of which were eliminated after various censuses.

Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September8, 1941) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. He was the U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007 ...

( Independent) held the seat from

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until

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, when he became a

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Peter Welch Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician who is a United States senator-elect from Vermont, and the current U.S. representative for since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been a major figure in ...

, who succeeded Sanders, has represented the state since 2007. Welch will be succeeded by Becca Balint who won the seat after he successfully ran for the US Senate. Welch and Balint will take their respective offices at the new Congress on January 3, 2023.

List of representatives

Vermont has elected its representatives at-large from 1813 to 1821, beginning with the 13th Congress; 1823 to 1825, with the 18th Congress; and from 1933 to the present, beginning with the 73rd Congress, after being reduced to one representative as a result of the 1930 Census. In all other years, Vermont elected its representatives from separate districts. All members were elected statewide at-large on a

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1933–present: 1 seat

After the

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, Vermont was reduced to one seat, which it has used ever since.

Electoral history

Martha Rainville Martha T. Rainville ( née Trim, born April 9, 1958) is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who attained the rank of major general. She was the first woman in U.S. history to become a state adjutant general when she served in that post with the Ver ...

, USANG (ret) (R), former Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard. *

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Mark Shepard Mark I. Shepard (born 1960) is a former Vermont State Senator ( R- Bennington) and unsuccessful candidate for the 2006 Republican nomination for Vermont's at-large United States House of Representatives seat. Biography Shepard was born on Sept ...

(R- Bennington County). *Republican businessman

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, who promised to bring articles of impeachment against President

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. Rainville won the Republican primary on September 12, beating Shepard by a wide margin. There were also numerous third party and independent candidates: Chris Karr (WTP), Bruce Marshall (

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), Dennis Morrisseau (Ind), Jane Newton ( Liberty Union Party), Keith Stern (Ind), and Jerry Trudell (Ind). Morrisseau gathered the most votes, with 1% or 1,383 votes. By September 14, 2006, the race between Rainville and Welch was close. An

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poll showed Welch with a 48–45% lead. On October 4, 2006, '' The Burlington Free Press'' reported that one of Rainville's staffers, Christopher Stewart, resigned from her campaign after committing plagiarism—copying policy statements from other politicians, including senator Hillary Clinton, and using them on Rainville's website. Rainville's website was off-line for some time while her staff removed the plagiarized passages.Alt URL
/ref> Welch beat Rainville 53% to 45%, or 139,585 votes to 117,211.

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Sources

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Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Notes

References

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