2024 United States Senate election in Vermont
November 5, 2024
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The 2024 United States Senate election in Vermont was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Vermont. Primary elections took place on August 13, 2024. Incumbent independent Senator Bernie Sanders won re-election to a fourth term, defeating the Republican nominee, businessman Gerald Malloy.
Sanders filed paperwork to run for re-election in 2019. On January 8, 2024, he stated he would decide whether or not to seek re-election in the "near future". On May 6, Sanders formally announced that he would run for re-election.
Sanders won by a margin of 31.09 percentage points, making it his closest Senate race to date despite achieving his largest vote total ever in the state. Sanders performed similarly to Kamala Harris in the concurrent 2024 United States presidential election in Vermont, but significantly underperformed governor Phil Scott in the concurrent gubernatorial election. Harris won by a slightly larger margin of 31.51 percentage points but did not carry Orleans County, unlike Sanders, while Scott won his re-election bid by 51.60 percentage points and carried every county. Independent Democrat Steve Berry won 2.19 percent of the vote.
Sanders lost Essex County, marking his first election since 1994 where he lost any Vermont county, and the first in his Senate career.