Population (2000) 608,827 Cook PVI D+13 | Median income 51,755 Area 24,916 km² | |
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Ethnicity 95.2% White0.8% Black0.9% Asian1.4% Hispanic0.4% Native American1.2% other Occupation 24.6% Blue-collar61% 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
- List of representatives
- 1990 election
- 1992 election
- 1994 election
- 1996 election
- 1998 election
- 2000 election
- 2002 election
- 2004 election
- 2006 election
- Living former Members of the US House of Representatives from Vermonts at large congressional district
- Democratic primary
- Republican primary
- References
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:
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%.