Vermont Governor 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Vermont.
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What the Vermont Governor election decides
State government decides most of what touches daily life directly: schools, roads, policing, public health, utilities regulation, and the state's share of healthcare programs. A governor's veto and budget proposal set the boundaries of what a legislature can do.
A governor signs or vetoes state law, proposes the state budget, commands the state's emergency response, and in most states shapes how elections themselves are administered. Vermont decides this alongside its 1 House seat. Governors are judged on results inside the state rather than on national mood alone, which is why governor's races often break differently from federal contests held the same day.
How Vermont votes
Vermont is a small, rural and strongly progressive state with a tradition of electing independents. Housing, healthcare and the rural economy carry most of its statewide debate. That backdrop is the ground any Vermont campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 Vermont gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Vermont. Republican incumbent Phil Scott was re-elected to a sixth two-year term. He defeated Democratic economist Amanda Janoo by a much narrower margin than his previous landslide reelections. Primary elections were held on August 11, 2026.
Along with neighboring New Hampshire, this is one of two Republican-held governorships up for election in a state that Kamala Harris won in the 2024 presidential election, and the only Republican-held governorship in a state that Harris won by a double-digit margin. With the defeat of Governor Greg Abbott in Texas, Scott will become the longest serving incumbent Governor in the United States in 2027.
Background
Latest coverage of the Vermont Governor race
Vermont Governor Election Results 2026: Phil Scott WinsPoll shows Amanda Janoo closing in on Phil Scott in Vermont governor’s raceVermont governor’s race will test voters’ appetite for raising new taxes — or cutting themVermont Governor Election 2026: Latest PollsWATCH LIVE: Gov. Scott, challenger Janoo face off in Vermont governor debateMolly Gray elected as Vermont’s next lieutenant governor, ousting John RodgersPhil Scott wins historic sixth term as Vermont governorThe rest of the Vermont ballot
Every Vermont House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Vermont state page.
Analysis covering Vermont
Six states have exactly one representative, and they are not alike
Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming each elect a single at-large member. The largest is 266 times the smallest.
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.