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1826 Vermont gubernatorial election Vermont 1804 presidential 1826 09 05 no 1825 Vermont gubernatorial election 1825 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election 1827 160x160px Ezra Butler (Vermont Governor).jpg Ezra Butler Adams Party 8,966 63.3% Joel Doolitle (Vermont Supreme Court Justice).jpg Joel Doolittle Jacksonian Party 3,157 22.3% 1826 Vermont gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 220px County resultsButler: #73BC84 50–60% #3FA457 60–70% #008C21 70–80% #006E1A 80–90% #005113 90–100%Doolittle: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996E2 50–60% Governor Cornelius P. Van Ness Democratic-Republican Ezra Butler Adams Party
The 1826 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 5, 1826.Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776–1860: The Official Results by State and County 2003 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC 265 https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesgube0000dubi It resulted in the election of Ezra Butler to a one-year term as governor.Walton E. P. Eliakim Persons Walton 1879 Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont VII https://books.google.com/books?id=3p06AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207 Montpelier, VT J. & J. M. Poland 206–207 Google Books
The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 12. The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council. The committee determined that Ezra Butler had won a one-year term.
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Aaron Leland had won election to a fifth one-year term. Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Leland, 7,749 (61.9%); Henry Olin, 4,331 (34.7%); Scattering, 431 (3.4%).October 17, 1826 Vermont Legislature https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75701174/vermont-legislature/ North Star Danville, VT 3 Newspapers.com
Benjamin Swan had no opposition for election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-seventh. Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=64759 Swan, Benjamin Joshua L. November 26, 2004 Our Campaigns Our Campaigns.com March 21, 2021
The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows:
Results
1826 Vermont gubernatorial electionDubin 2003 272
Ezra Butler Adams Party 8,966 63.3%
Joel Doolittle Jacksonian Party 3,157 22.3%
2,037 14.4%
14,160 100%
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