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United States Senate election in Vermont, 2016

United States Senate election in Vermont, 2016
Vermont
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Nominee Patrick Leahy Scott Milne
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 192,243 103,637
Percentage 60.0% 32.3%

Vermont Senate Election Results by County, 2016.svg

U.S. Senator before election

Patrick Leahy
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Patrick Leahy
Democratic


Patrick Leahy
Democratic

Patrick Leahy
Democratic

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.

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 re-election to a record eighth term in office.

Polls and predictions show the race as being safely Democratic.


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