2026 Vermont elections
Follow our coverage as Vermont heads toward the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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Election coverage
Journalism Club to discuss Vermont election coverage on Nov. 5 in Williston
The event will be moderated by Boston Globe reporter Paul Heintz and feature VTDigger’s Shaun Robinson.
The last Democratic legislator in Rutland County is leaving office. What could that mean for the county’s political future?
Historically a Republican stronghold, Rutland County sent Republicans to fill a large majority of its seats in the Legislature last session. This election cycle, the Democratic Party couldn’t find anyone to run for Senate and several House seats in Rutland.
Bernie Sanders makes rare Vermont campaign appearance, stumping with Amanda Janoo to push universal primary care
“She is a progressive candidate who’s reaching out to working class people and in a variety of ways, I think, fills the agenda of what a strong, progressive governor can do,” Sanders told reporters.
5 takeaways from Phil Scott and Amanda Janoo’s first debate of the campaign
The two candidates proposed starkly different approaches to Vermont’s biggest challenges but kept things friendly between them.
Gov. Scott put property taxes and school consolidation center stage. Now Amanda Janoo is rallying opposition.
Scott has billed school consolidation as a path to lowering property taxes. Democratic challenger Amanda Janoo is doubling down on keeping small schools.
Vermont Conversation: ‘We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.’ Amanda Janoo would ‘lead a different way.’
With artificial intelligence, climate change, fiscal strain and democratic instability converging, Janoo said Vermont should seek to shape events rather than simply endure them.
Then Again: Hoff overcame opponent and power of incumbency to make history
Vermont had such a long history as a Republican bastion that Democrats knew defeating even an unpopular governor would be a stiff challenge in 1962.
After upsets in 2024, parties focus on key races for balance of power in Vermont Senate
Political leaders are turning their eyes — and their funds — to closely watched contests in the chamber’s Addison, Bennington and Orange County districts.
To tax or not to tax: Two towns consider a local option tax this November
Bennington and Hinesburg have local option taxes on the ballot as part of a rising trend in Vermont.
Pro-Phil Scott super PAC launches ad buy, another signal Vermont governor’s race could be close
The PAC is funded by the national Republican Governors Association, which is now spending the most it has on a race in Vermont since 2018.
In his third congressional race, Republican Gerald Malloy is looking for middle ground
Experts highlight a shifting platform in Gerald Malloy’s third campaign– away from Trump and toward Gov. Phil Scott.
Vermont Conversation: Stealing Elections, American Style: Voting rights attorney David Walbert on how the 2026 election could be hijacked — and saved
“One of the lessons that the election deniers learned in 2020 was it’s good to control the people that count,” said Walbert, whose new book recounts stories of voter suppression and stolen elections dating back 150 years.
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