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United States Senate election in Vermont, 2016

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November 8, 2016
  
2022 →

60.0%
  
32.3%

192,243
  
103,637

Date
  
8 November 2016

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Winner
  
Patrick Leahy

The 2016 United States Senate election in Vermont was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Vermont, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 9.

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Incumbent Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior senator in the current Senate and the longest-serving US Senator in Vermont history as well as the only Democrat to ever be elected to a Senate seat in Vermont, won reelection to a record eighth term in office.

Declared

  • Cris Ericson, perennial candidate, currently running as Marijuana Party nominee (also ran for Governor)
  • Patrick Leahy, incumbent U.S. Senator

    • Declared

  • Scott Milne, businessman, candidate for the State House in 2006 and nominee for Governor in 2014

    • Declared

  • Peter Diamondstone, LU party co-founder, lawyer, and perennial candidate

    • Declared

  • Jerry Trudell, independent candidate, environmental activist, candidate for House of Representatives in 2014
  • Cris Ericson, Marijuana Party perennial candidate, previously sought Democratic nomination

    • Candidates

  • Patrick Leahy (D)
  • Scott Milne (R)
  • Jerry Trudell (I)
  • Peter Diamondstone (LU)
  • Cris Ericson (MJ)

    • Predictions

    Polls and predictions show the race as being safely Democratic.

    References

    United States Senate election in Vermont, 2016 Wikipedia
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