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1822 Vermont gubernatorial election Vermont 1804 presidential 1822 09 03 no 1821 Vermont gubernatorial election 1821 1823 Vermont gubernatorial election 1823 160x160px Richard Skinner.jpg Richard Skinner Democratic-Republican 11,520 98.6% 1822 Vermont gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 220px County resultsSkinner: #005113 90–100%No Data/Vote: #808080 Governor Richard Skinner Democratic-Republican Richard Skinner Democratic-Republican
The 1822 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 3, 1822.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 Richard Skinner 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=PA3 Montpelier, VT J. & J. M. Poland 3–4 Google Books
The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 10. 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. Democratic-Republican Richard Skinner was the only major candidate. The committee determined that Skinner had easily won a third one-year term against only scattering opposition.
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Aaron Leland had won election to a one-year term. A contemporary newspaper article reported the results as: Leland, 6,792 (61.4%); Ezra Butler, 1,838 (16.6%); William Hunter, 1,785 (16.1%); William Strong, 48 (0.4%); scattering, 604 (5.5%).Mills Ephraim Mills Thomas October 18, 1822 Votes for Governor, &c. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74479574/votes-governor/ Northern Sentinel Burlington, VT 3 Newspapers.com
Benjamin Swan was unopposed for election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-third. Though nominally a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalists Swan often ran unopposed.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=64759 Swan, Benjamin Joshua L. November 26, 2004 Our Campaigns Our Campaigns.com March 21, 2021 Newspaper accounts of the election reported that Swan had received 7,986 votes (99.6%), with 34 votes (0.4%) scattering.
In the race for governor, the results of the popular vote were reported as follows.
Results
1822 Vermont gubernatorial election
Richard Skinner (incumbent) Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican 11,520 98.6%
167 1.4%
11,687 100%
By county
The following totals are incomplete. They represent all the votes that are vouched for by surviving records, and are therefore the minimum possible votes as opposed to grand totals.https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/c534fq383 Vermont 1822 governor A New Nation Votes 24 October 2024
County Richard SkinnerDemocratic-Republican Scattering Totals(incomplete) Votes Votes VotesAddison8124816Bennington6066612Caledonia7679776Chittenden2450245Essex1370137Franklin4461447Grand Isle1120112Orange1,18911,190Orleans4266432Rutland1,10671,113Washington3170317Windham1,09591,104Windsor2,34752,352
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