The 2018 United States Senate election in Vermont was held November 6, 2018, alongside a

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Senator

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won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican nominee Lawrence Zupan. The primaries were held on August 14. This was one of two independent-held Senate seats up for election in a state that

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won in the 2016 presidential election.

Background

Two-term independent Senator

was re-elected with 71% of the vote in

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. Sanders had caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2007, and was 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.

Independents

Candidates

* Brad Peacock, farmer *

, incumbent U.S. senator (caucuses with Democrats)

Endorsements

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

, incumbent U.S. senator (declined nomination)

Eliminated in primary

*Folasade Adeluola, activist

Not on ballot

*Jon Svitavsky, homelessness activist

Withdrawn

* Al Giordano, journalist

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

*Lawrence Zupan, real estate broker

Withdrew nomination

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

Eliminated in primary

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, businessman * Jasdeep Pannu, attorney

Did not file

* John MacGovern, former Massachusetts state representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate in

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, businessman, nominee for governor in

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and nominee for the U.S. Senate in

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Results

Post-primary

H. Brooke Paige, who also won the Republican nominations for

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, and state

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, withdrew from all but the secretary of state race on August 24, in order to allow the

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to name replacement candidates. The Vermont Republican Party picked Lawrence Zupan, who came in second place in the primary, to be the Republican nominee.

General election

Predictions

*Highest rating given

Polling

Results

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

References

External links

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Bernie Sanders

Background

Independents

Candidates

Endorsements

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Not on ballot

Withdrawn

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Withdrew nomination

Eliminated in primary

Did not file

Results

Post-primary

General election

Predictions

Polling

Results

See also

References

External links