2022 Vermont gubernatorial election

The 2022 Vermont gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Vermont. Incumbent Republican governor Phil Scott won re-election to a fourth term in a landslide, defeating Democratic nominee Brenda Siegel.

This race was one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 in a state carried by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. During the 2022 season, Scott enjoyed one of the highest approval ratings of any governor in the nation, and was expected to easily win reelection. As such, he carried every municipality in the state, this time with the largest margin in a Vermont gubernatorial race since Howard Dean's landslide in 1996. Scott's 47-point victory margin was the largest for a Republican candidate since 1950, even while Democratic congressman Peter Welch won the concurrent U.S. Senate election by a 40-point margin.

Nominee

 * Phil Scott, incumbent governor

Eliminated in primary

 * Stephen Bellows, landscaping contractor
 * Peter Duval, engineer and former Underhill selectman

Declined

 * H. Brooke Paige, historian and perennial candidate (running for multiple statewide offices)

Results
[[File:2022 Vermont gubernatorial Republican primary election results map by county.svg|thumb|200px|Results by county: {{legend|#e27f7f|Scott}}

{{legend|#d75d5d|60–70%}}

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Withdrew after winning primary

 * Susan Hatch Davis, former state representative

Replacement nominee

 * Brenda Siegel, nonprofit executive, candidate for governor in 2018, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2020 (cross-endorsement of Democratic nominee)

Nominee

 * Brenda Siegel, nonprofit executive, candidate for governor in 2018, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2020

Declined

 * Becca Balint, President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate (running for U.S. House)
 * T. J. Donovan, former Vermont Attorney General
 * Molly Gray, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (ran for U.S. House)
 * Jill Krowinski, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives (running for re-election)
 * Doug Racine, former lieutenant governor of Vermont and candidate for governor in 2002 and 2010

Declared

 * Peter Duval, engineer and former Underhill selectman
 * Kevin Hoyt, candidate for governor in 2020
 * Bernard Peters, perennial candidate

Write-ins
Due to Vermont's completely unrestricted write-in laws, many high school students across the United States were legally able to run for governor.

Declared

 * Jackson Williams, high school student from Las Vegas

Polling

 * Graphical summary


 * Phil Scott vs. generic opponent