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Vermont's at large congressional district

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Population (2000)
  
608,827

Cook PVI
  
D+13

Median income
  
51,755

Area
  
24,916 km²

Vermont's at-large congressional district

Current Representative
  
Peter Welch (D–Norwich)

Ethnicity
  
95.2% White 0.8% Black 0.9% Asian 1.4% Hispanic 0.4% Native American 1.2% other

Occupation
  
24.6% Blue-collar 61% White-collar % Gray-collar

Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat, obsoleting its 1st and 2nd congressional districts. There were once six districts in Vermont, all of which were eliminated after various censuses.

Contents

Bernie Sanders (Independent) held the seat from 1991 until 2007, when he became a U.S. Senator. Democrat Peter Welch has represented the state since 2007.

List of representatives

Vermont has elected its representatives at-large from 1813 to 1821, beginning with the 13th Congress; 1823 to 1825, with the 18th Congress; and from 1933 to the present, beginning with the 73rd Congress, after being reduced to one representative as a result of the 1930 Census. In all other years, Vermont elected its representatives from separate districts.

1990 election

Independent Bernie Sanders defeated incumbent Republican Peter Plympton Smith.

1992 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

1994 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

1996 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

1998 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

2000 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

2002 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

2004 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders ran for and won re-election.

2006 election

Incumbent Bernie Sanders retired to run for (and win) a U.S. Senate seat.

Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Welch (D-Windsor County) was the Democratic nominee and the eventual winner.

Three candidates competed for the Republican nomination:

  • Major General Martha Rainville, USANG (ret) (R), former Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard.
  • Vermont State Senator Mark Shepard (R-Bennington County).
  • Republican businessman Dennis Morrisseau, who promised to bring articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.
  • Rainville won the Republican primary on September 12, beating Shepard by a wide margin.

    There were also numerous third party and independent candidates: Chris Karr (WTP), Bruce Marshall (Green Party), Dennis Morrisseau (Ind), Jane Newton (Liberty Union Party), Keith Stern (Ind), and Jerry Trudell (Ind). Morrisseau gathered the most votes, with 1% or 1,383 votes.

    By September 14, 2006, the race between Rainville and Welch was close. An American Research Group poll showed Welch with a 48–45% lead.

    On October 4, 2006, The Burlington Free Press reported that one of Rainville's staffers, Christopher Stewart, resigned from her campaign after committing plagiarism—copying policy statements from other politicians, including Senator Hillary Clinton, and using them on Rainville's website. Rainville's website was off-line for some time while her staff removed the plagiarized passages. [1]

    Welch beat Rainville 53% to 45%, or 139,585 votes to 117,211.

    Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large congressional district

    As of April 2015, two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large congressional district are alive. The most recent representative to die was Jim Jeffords (1975-1989) on August 18, 2014.

    Democratic primary

    Then-U.S. Senator and former President Barack Obama of Illinois won the March 4, 2008 Vermont Democratic Primary with 59.31% of the statewide/at-large congressional district vote while then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York received 38.59%.

    Republican primary

    U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona won the March 4, 2008 Vermont Republican Primary with 71.32% of the statewide/at-large congressional district vote while former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas finished second with 14.30%.

    References

    Vermont's at-large congressional district Wikipedia