Trump gained – slightly – over 2020, 2016
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.