Vermont towns widely voted red in choosing their governor, blue in the contentious presidential election, and split votes in a relatively competitive race for lieutenant governor.
The maps below show how towns and cities across Vermont voted in each race.
Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman said Tuesday afternoon that the pandemic would make incumbent Phil Scott tougher to beat in their race for governor. He was right.
Scott, who since March has led one of the most successful pandemic responses in the nation, won almost every town in the state — including Hinesburg, where Zuckerman lives. In deep blue Burlington, Zuckerman won by just 55 votes.
From typically blue locales like Norwich to towns in the historically conservative Northeast Kingdom, Scott held a healthy margin and ended the night with more than 67% of the votes. He won more than 70% of the vote in at least 100 towns.
Scott won a number of towns that also supported Democrats Joe Biden and Lt. Gov.-elect Molly Gray. Middlebury, where 80% of voters cast ballots for Joe Biden and 64% voted for Gray, gave 58% of its votes to Scott.
Zuckerman took Putney, Brattleboro, Marlboro and South Burlington, but garnered less than 50% of votes in South Burlington and Brattleboro.
The numbers were more balanced in the race between Milne and Gray for lieutenant governor, Vermont’s most competitive statewide race.
While Gray won the race, she beat Republican Scott Milne by just a few percentage points in towns like Williston, and by just 43 votes in Wolcott. The two even tied in two towns — Woodbury and Tunbridge.
Milne ran well in the Northeast Kingdom, winning 60% or more of the vote in Sheldon, Franklin, Brownington, Holland, Irasburg and Newport Town.
Gray, a political newcomer who grew up in Newbury, likewise won over 60% of the vote in progressive stalwarts Burlington and South Burlington. She picked up 58% — 686 votes to Milne’s 473 — in her hometown.
The candidates gathered exactly the same number of votes in two towns: they picked up 274 each in Woodbury and 414 apiece in Tunbridge. But overall, Gray won the race with 51% of the vote to Milne’s 44%.
And President Donald Trump, who GOP officials hoped would make gains in the Northeast Kingdom, won 58% of the vote in Holland and 60% in Irasburg, and won a majority vote in about 20 towns there.
He also performed well in two clusters of four towns each in Central and Southern Vermont, too, winning 56% of the vote in Searsburg and 54% of the vote in Topsham.
Still, though, a majority of towns’ voters — many of whom voted in strong support of Republican candidates Scott and Milne — chose instead to put their support behind Biden.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated said that David Zuckerman won over 50% of votes in just one town. Early data showed he took over 50% in both Marlboro and Putney.
