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Vermont electors cast all 3 votes for Harris

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Trump gained – slightly – over 2020, 2016

Electoral College members Mary Sullivan, Tim Jerman, and Stephen Amos take the oath of office at the official counting of presidential Electoral College votes at the State House today.
Towns in red voted for Donald Trump, towns in blue voted for Kamala Harris.

By Guy Page

Vermont’s three Electoral College electors today, December 17 cast their votes for Democrat Kamala Harris as President of the United States.

They were gathered in the well of the Vermont House of Representatives at the Vermont State House in a constitutionally-required meeting moderated by Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas. In Vermont, the winner of the election receives all three ballots, regardless of the closeness of the vote.

Electoral College members Tim Jerman (former Essex representative), Mary Sullivan (former Burlington representative), and Stephen Amos (former state party chair, state senate candidate, and nature educator from Wheelock) stood to take the oath of office. They then signed ballots casting the three votes for Harris. 

The major parties pick electoral college members at their annual Platform Committee meetings. 

The electoral college votes will be officially counted by Congress on January 6. 

Harris received Vermont 235,791 Vermont votes, easily surpassing Republican Donald Trump’s 119,395 – a margin of 63.23% – 32.02%. The total turnout was a record 372,885.

A map on the Vermont Secretary of State’s website (at right) indicates that Trump won every town and city on the Canadian border, much of the Northeast Kingdom, Rutland County, and about half of Orange County. Click here for a list of all town/city returns. 

Trump’s showing represented slight, incremental improvement over 2020 and 2016.

President-Elect Trump fared somewhat better this year than in his official 2020 totals, where he gathered 30.7% of the vote compared to Joseph Biden’s 66.1. In 2016, Trump received 30.3% of the Vermont vote, compared to 57% for Hillary Clinton.

Nationwide, Trump won 312 electoral votes, compared to Harris’ 226. But in Vermont – one of 19 states to vote for Harris – all three of the state’s electoral votes went to the California Democrat. 

Final vote tally in the Vermont 2024 presidential election. Both graphics credit Vermont Secretary of State.

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  1. Maine cast the single sane electoral vote in New England. Three for Harris and one for Trump. Like every northern Vermont border town, Maine’s northern Congressional district voted red.

  2. VT making sure we remind everyone we are political losers, and the land of zero common sense.

  3. The good news…..Vermonters that voted for President-elect Donald Trump contributed to his overwhelming popular vote victory. I’m thinking that his popular vote victory stunned both the opposition party and the misinformed people who want to abolish the Electoral College.

  4. Consider the distribution. Red town residents predominantly work in agriculture/forestry/manufacturing. Blue towns are predominately low skill service industry and retired, urban transplants. One segment fuels the economy, the other exists off it.

  5. When will they ever learn? As we speak the dems in DC are introducing a bill
    to do away with the electoral college. This is wasted time in DC as it will never
    happen given the hoops they need to jump through, and the votes needed to
    accomplish undoing what our nation has flourished under forever. Them dems
    are numb from 11/6/24 and have no recovery plan, so they squirm and choke in the muddy mess they have made searching for anything to make them feel better.
    And yet… there are also plenty of them coming on board the Trump USA Train.
    As always, the Republicans are a big tent party and will welcome them onto this glorious ride into the next 12 years. Merry Christmas to all.

  6. Vermont is deep blue, even though there were a third of the presidential vote for Trump, Vermont’s Blue did what they were told to do ……… Harris gets all three !!

    This is no surprise, the state has a cancer and it’s all the leftists trying to make Vermont the new California ……………… not that’s our leadership.

  7. Anyone that still thinks that there is anything good that will come from supporting the depravities of what the once good democratic party has become is not keeping up with the news.

  8. Vermont deserves a good solid fiscal spanking from Trump especially since ole Rinocrat Phony Phil is proud he voted for Kamala.

    What a clown show this degenerate state is.